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Posted inFood & Dining
Do you schmear what I schmear? Bagels are the new Christmastime tradition
Local bakeries say demand for the once quintessential Jewish bread spikes during holidays, including Christian ones.
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Posted inFood & Dining, Maine Gardener
Lack of snow makes our yards less attractive and more vulnerable
A blanket of snow not only makes winter berries pop, but it protects plants underneath from the cold.
Posted inFood & Dining, Vegan Kitchen
Plant-based food gets seat at U.N. climate summit’s table
Food finally made it onto the agenda of a United Nations’ climate change summit. The recent COP28 summit in Dubai was noted for a thick sheen of oil lobbyists, its controversial president (who heads a fossil fuel corporation), restrictions on protesters and the successful petrochemical industry push to reduce rather than phase out fossil fuels. […]
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Dec. 24, 1969: Power failures are widespread across central Maine after ‘staggering’ ice storm, and special section of legislature to consider $5 million in appropriations
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Dec. 23, 1976: Second bridge to span Waterville-Winslow needed by late 1980s says Maine DOT, Augusta council touts Winslow man for state job, and managers at local department stores say this will be a big year for toys
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Christmas meals planned in central Maine for those in need
‘The dinner is important this year, especially because many people lost power and had food go bad in the freezer, and many can’t cook,’ said Kim Lawrence, who has helped organize a community meal in Winslow.
Posted inBooks, Life & Culture, Maine Authors
BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: ‘Twas the Bite Before Christmas’ and ‘The Maine Roadshow’
A new Andy Carpenter mystery, and a roadside tour of the Maine’s ‘history, culture, food, funk and oddities’
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Dec. 22, 1998: Consultants suggest changing the rotaries and adding modern transit system in Augusta, EnvisioNet coming to Augusta and bringing hundreds of jobs, and it will be a brown Christmas for a lot of Mainers
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Dec. 21, 1987: Waterville, Lewiston, and Orono lost the most amount of people between 1980-86 according to new study, Franklin Memorial Hospital patients will need permission to smoke inside rooms, and Hinckley School asks help for fire victims
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