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Life & Culture
Arts, entertainment, food and books news from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
Central Maine Eats: Comfort food, community style from former Waterville mayor
Complete coverage of what’s new with restaurants, food trucks and food events in central Maine.
Nov. 12, 1981: Two men are scamming individuals and businesses in Augusta area over art portraits, Pentecostal church members in Hallowell are protesting a male strip-tease ensemble, and hunters in Winthrop head out ‘with a full belly’
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Where to dine out for Thanksgiving dinner in Maine
Make a reservation or wing it as a walk-in at one of these restaurants serving turkey and much more.
Nov. 10, 1998: ‘Extraordinary’ expenses may becoming in 1999 for Central Maine Power customers after high ice storm costs, and a 60 percent Kennebec County jail turnover rate is affecting the year’s budget
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Nov. 9, 1977: ‘Morse code’ sound interrupts Waterville woman’s sleep from apartment house next door, Canaan man’s leg severed in railway mishap, and what is that mysterious object between Uranus and Saturn?
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Owner of Brunswick pizzeria Nomad to retire, close restaurant
Dutchman’s Wood-Fired Bagels will be taking over the space and opening a restaurant there in early 2025.
BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: ‘Tell Me Everything’ and ‘The Maine Standard’
A new novel from Elizabeth Strout featuring three popular characters, and a collection of poems, photographs and stories contributed by Mainers.
Jamaican restaurants multiply in Maine, feeding island transplants and adventurous eaters
More than a dozen eateries provide Mainers with authentic island flavors, while also giving the state’s Jamaican population access to the foods they miss from home.
Some people hunt for deer and turkeys in the fall …
while others hunt for invasive plants.