With its abundance of forested land, the state is well positioned to meet its goal of achieving carbon neutrality by 2030.
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Poet Richard Blanco pulls from his own Miami-to-Maine story for first play
Blanco, best known as the poet for Barack Obama’s second inauguration, teamed up with fellow Cuban American writer Vanessa Garcia on ‘Sweet Goats and Blueberry Senoritas,’ a play commissioned by Portland Stage, where it premieres this month.
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Jan. 8, 1962: Mass oral polio vaccine clinic opens in Waterville, 67-year-old Skowhegan man dead after crash, and Indonesian president escapes bomb blast
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Jan. 7, 1997: Augusta couple ordered to pay back $28,500, man who molested teenage boy headed returning to prison, and residents are digging out from a recent snowstorm
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West Coast design firm chosen for Portland Museum of Art expansion
Lever Architecture, based in Portland, Oregon, and Los Angeles, was chosen ahead of three other finalists to design a new building on the site of the former Children’s Museum that will be integrated into the museum’s existing campus overlooking Congress Square.
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Jan. 6, 1979: Jay crash victim was following friend’s car, new laundromat to open in Madison, and Waterville police receive two separate reports of damage by egg-throwing vandals
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OFF RADAR: ‘Elegiaca Americana: Poems’
Claire Millikin’s intense poems track the inner life of the poet from her childhood in the South to her adulthood in New England.
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Jan. 5, 1978: Shot fired at skiers using Capitol Park in Augusta, safety monitor for state’s energy program says nuclear power is the solution, and Bogosians Shoes and Boots having their ‘well known’ one on one sale
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‘Yellowstone’ returns with new governor, pack of wolves in pinstripe suits
“One Hundred Years is Nothing,” Season 5, episode 1.
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Jan. 4, 1983: Former Kingfield resident, Abbot businessman indicted by Piscataquis grand jury, 2 Winslow officers get pat on the back, and mobile home gets the big move to Belgrade
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