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Life & Culture
Arts, entertainment, food and books news from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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Feb. 12, 1987: Whitefield warns its residents about leaving snow on the road, disfavor over Augusta’s accounting system has school superintendent mentioning court, and an American flag triggers a blackout in Portland yesterday
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Posted inFood & Dining, Recipes
Have a crush on your Le Creuset? Here are the kitchen items these Mainers love most
For Valentine’s Day, we asked a handful of Mainers what culinary objects make their hearts full.
Posted inFood & Dining, Maine Gardener
To attract birds, you need to attract bugs. To attract bugs, you need the right plants
To a bird, a grub, a nymph, a slug, a maggot all just spell lunch.
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Feb. 11, 1991: Deer shows up and gets trapped inside fairgrounds at Skowhegan’s Getting To Know You Fair, new Farmington middle school not ready to be used yet, and Baber the elephant makes an appearance at Arby’s in Waterville
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Posted inLife & Culture
Meet this Wilton native who helps produce ‘The Kelly Clarkson Show’
The show won a Daytime Emmy in December 2023 for “Outstanding Talk Show Series,” one of 20 Emmy’s the show has won over the years.
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Feb. 10, 2001: Augusta senator seeks $20 million to go towards low-income housing in Maine, Augusta man shows gun, robs CVS Pharmacy of pain killers, and Maine’s specialty plate crazy may reach natives next
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Posted inLife & Culture, Maine, Morning Sentinel
Fairfield community ice rink skates toward public opening this weekend
The synthetic ice rink is being set up at the Fairfield Community Center at 61 Water St.
Posted inBooks, Life & Culture, Maine Authors
BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: ‘Leap Frog’ and ‘Death of a Clam Digger’
A new adventure with the Oxbow Island Gang, and another delightfully entertaining “cozy” mystery from Lee Hollis
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Feb. 9, 1987: Waterville seeks high-court ruling to quash Shaw’s Supermarket from coming to city, Waterville school board taking ‘wait-and-see’ approach to superintendent’s 1987-88 budget request, and profiling Elias Joseph of Waterville, ‘a Buick boy who’s made it big’
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