A lack of sunshine and other weather-related factors mean late-summer crops haven’t been as plentiful.
Life & Culture
Arts, entertainment, food and books news from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
Posted inOn this date
Aug. 7, 1986: 3,000 books missing from Gardiner Public Library after 5-year inventory, legal battle continues to brew with Augusta city manager and city council, and longest-living heart transplant recipient in the US dies
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Kennebec River Brewfest in Augusta draws hundreds of attendees and even more beverage samples
About 30 vendors from across Maine — 10 more than last year — featured beer, wine, seltzer, cider, mead and cannabis at Mill Park.
Posted inVegan Kitchen
‘No Meat Required’ looks at future of vegetarianism through its history
As vegetarian food options become more mainstream, author Alicia Kennedy sees a need to reinforce the societal arguments for plant-based eating.
Posted inFood & Dining, Recipes
Home Plates: Old Tavern Inn’s blueberry muffins celebrate Maine, however you make them
A Portland couple carries on a tradition started by one of their grandmothers, who took over an inn in Litchfield as a retirement project.
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Aug. 6, 1981: Mud wrestling hits Skowhegan, Waterville mayor says city still working through problems, and new 14-acre subdivision in the works in Oakland
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Aug. 5, 2003: State stocks Kennebec River with $7.4 million worth of American shad, Augusta officials look to replace water source with existing wells at Bond Brook, and cell phones are displacing landlines in the US
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Posted inBooks, Life & Culture, Uncategorized
OFF RADAR: ‘Small Off Things’ by Suzanne Farrell Smith
It’s probably not going to cheer you up to find out someone has it, overall, possibly worse than you.
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Aug 4, 1972: ‘Christmas in August’ as sidewalk sales bring thousands to downtown Waterville, police vehicle hit by truck on Water St. in Waterville yesterday, and the Lakewood Theatre goes back to ‘1776’ in new musical comedy
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Posted inJ.P. Devine, Life & Culture, Movie Review J.P. Devine
‘And Just Like That’ Aiden returns
I’ve given up trying to make sense of the women in “Sex and the City,” I’m sorry, “And Just Like That.” Carrie Bradshaw, who only a week ago was prowling the streets in what looked like a collection of shopping bags from a designers tire store, seems to be the one of the trio who […]