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Penobscot chef to cook at White House next week
Joe Robbins, who was a James Beard semifinalist this year, will be 1 of 5 Indigenous chefs at the White House Tribal Nations Summit.
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Dec. 3, 1998: Waterville area apparently a great skiing Mecca, according to phone book cover, local United Way raises $600,000, and difficult roads in Moscow area result in 3 accidents in one week
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Dec. 2, 1980: Augusta man goes oversees to help Asian refugees, Augusta’s Japanese-made police cars to remain in use, and city’s granite Vietnam war memorial erected second time now with correct names
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Dec. 1, 1988: Former Norridgewock chicken farmer & his wife sue U.S. government, 2 Maine TV stations reject Jay International Paper ads, and Catholic Church acts to bail out ‘religious’ pensioners
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Nov. 30, 1995: Owner of McDonald’s in Gardiner, Rockland, and Damariscotta fined for labor law violations, plans continue for Hallowell-area school child care program, and the importance of Meals on Wheels for those housebound
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A Bowdoin professor collects his thoughts on the Black American experience
Anthony Walton’s ‘The End of Respectability’ features a dozen essays, written over time, with his observations on race in this country.
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Nov. 29, 2002: Born in Maine in 1902, Italian sandwich turns the big 100, Maine Central Institute coach opens up his home for Thanksgiving, and Hanukkah beings at sundown today
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Community Plate builds connections in Maine, one potluck supper at a time
The nonprofit group hosts free story-sharing potluck suppers around the state in an effort to combat the epidemic of loneliness.
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Nov. 28, 1978: Former proprietor of Capitol City Fruit Co. in Augusta for last 40 years has died, town of Whitefield allows new savings account, and Ohio townspeople will have a brighter Christmas, literally.
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