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Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books, Maine Authors, Outdoors
‘Uphill Both Ways’ tells of one family’s adventures, and misadventures, on the Colorado Trail
Writer Andrea Lani walked nearly 500 miles with her husband and school-age sons. She interweaves the family’s personal story with the environmental story of the landscape they hiked through.
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Posted inFood & Dining, Maine Gardener
The conversion of a green bean hater
An avowed green bean hater discovers haricots verts, and his world, or at least his table, is rocked. He’s planted one crop of the skinnier, more tender bean, and is planning a second.
Posted inFood & Dining, Vegan Kitchen
If you thought a vegan diet was punishing, check out these sundaes
A number of ice cream shops in Maine now offer indulgent vegan sundaes, complete with vegan gummy bears and peanut butter cups.
Posted inOn this date
July 9, 2008: ‘Major destruction’ discovered at Unity ceremony and church, $500,000 loan pursued to renovate Waterville Senior High School, and every MIFF goer needs one
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July 8, 1975: Winthrop visitor wins $10,000 lottery prize, new study finds one in every five Maine residents is poor without adequate income, housing and transportation, and agreement reached on repairs of Olde Federal Building in Augusta
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Posted inBooks, Life & Culture, Maine Authors
OFF RADAR: ‘Just East of Nowhere’
Answers to some questions can be complicated
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July 7, 1993: Proposed Skowhegan Walmart to get public hearing, Waterville children will eat for free this summer, and New Vineyard Board of Selectmen meeting goes on as chairman has kidney transplant
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Posted inJ.P. Devine, Life & Culture, Movie Review J.P. Devine, Op-Eds
‘Ticket to Paradise’ actors made film for the money
Before you buy your “Ticket to Paradise,” did you know that Bali, the “ideal” vacation spot that was the location for George Clooney and Julia Roberts’s movie “Ticket to Paradise,” is the home of 500 different varieties of spiders, some of which have eight eyes and 15-centimeter legs? You didn’t? Did you know that today, […]
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July 6, 1978: Derelict schooner landmark set afire in Wiscasset, state and Pineland Center reach accord in three-year suit, and Mainers have qualms with ‘cashless society’
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