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Life & Culture
Arts, entertainment, food and books news from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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OFF RADAR: ‘Battle of Ink and Ice’
An engaging, illuminating history of the origins of the news media we know and feel ambivalent about today.
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Jan. 5, 1988: Oakland business owner donates $30,000 for new Waterville police radios, storm drops 6 inches of snow in the region, and was a diabetic Winslow woman alone when she vanished two weeks ago?
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Sandy River Players to present ‘You Can’t Take it With You’ in Farmington
The Sandy River Players will be hitting the Emery Community Arts theater to present “You Can’t Take it With You”, a comedic play in three acts.
Posted inJ.P. Devine, Life & Culture, Movie Review J.P. Devine
‘Maestro’ is a ‘big’ picture
“Maestro” movie star Bradley Cooper’s big, new film about composer and world-famous manic conductor Leonard Bernstein, just opened on Netflix. Bernstein, even as a star, was always addressed as “Lenny” by everyone in his world. “Maestro” opens with an aging Bernstein, as he is being interviewed by a film crew at the end of his […]
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Jan. 4, 1997: 1997 is going to stink literally for some living near the Hatch Hill landfill in Augusta, traffic jams growing in Augusta, Waterville as communal commuting starts to grow, and four major state officer sworn in at State House in Augusta
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13-year-old gamer becomes the first to beat the ‘unbeatable’ Tetris – by breaking it
The falling-block video game Tetris has met its match.
Posted inLife & Culture, On Music Lucky Clark, Op-Eds
Peaceful Means duo talks about using music to uplift, heal
Jan. 6 event is combination of teaching, singing in community with participants.
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Jan. 3, 1978: Paul R. LaVerdiere will become Waterville’s 40th mayor tonight, city officials to meet with airport consultants on $54,000 plan for Robert LaFleur airport, and cost of road salt up 14 percent
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Jan. 2, 2001: Meet Todd Matthew McKay Jr. of South Gardiner, the first baby of the new millennium, United Way of Kennebec Valley to honor Sylvia Lund, and barbers are aging in Maine and working hard to keep up
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