Tucker Atwood has learned a few lessons along the way to becoming a playwright who is directing and producing a play he wrote, “Waiting in the Wings,” that opens Friday at the storied theater in Madison.
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Wildfires can make your red wine taste like an ashtray. These scientists want to stop that.
The risk to America’s premier wine-making regions – where wildfires caused billions of dollars in losses in 2020 – is growing, with climate change deepening drought and overgrown forests becoming tinderboxes.
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‘Jaws’ ranked as one of the great films of survival
You remember the opening with John Williams’ score that ran the notes like ice pellets down your spine, don’t you?
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Sept. 28, 1982: Kitty in Augusta won’t come down from tree on Pearl St., worldwide wage freeze affects 650 workers at Digital Equipment Corp. in Augusta, and new report criticizes Togus alcohol treatment unit
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Mary James tours with guitar, banjo and fiddle
Singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist to make Maine debut Oct. 7.
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Sept. 27, 1994: Economy, jobs, and health care top list of issues that most concern central Maine residents according to newspaper poll, new glove company hands out hope for 80 in Harmony, and Kingfield Savings Bank buying out four branches in Franklin and Somerset counties
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Allagash named brewer of the year at Great American Beer Festival
Great American is the most widely entered beer competition in the country, with more than 2,000 breweries submitting entries this year.
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Sept. 26, 1983: Common Ground Country Fair attracts more people than ever, straw poll to attract 3,200 Maine Democrats, and state wardens start appearing in pro-moose TV advertisements
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Sept. 25, 1990: Colby College campus police shut down WMHB radio station for several minutes due to comments from high school DJ’s, Waterville schools to get three new teacher aids, and Vassalboro rabbitry owner touts his rabbits
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Here we come a-brambling
The Irish countryside is awash in blackberries, which Irish bakers have cleverly learned to pair with apples.