Life & Culture

Kids with food allergies and their parents have to be all the more vigilant during trick-or-treating season. Growing awareness of the issue through campaigns like the Teal Pumpkin Project helps.

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Oct. 28, 1983: Man suffers concussion after cow runs over him in Monmouth, former Boynton’s Warehouse in Hallowell to come down, and spooks aplenty at the Augusta Jaycees Haunted House

Oct. 27, 1976: Social Security contribution base will increase to $16,500 next year, GOP candidate for senate spends $700,000 out of pocket on his campaign, and a sewage treatment facility for some schools in Maine will have to wait

Barn quilts stitch together generations, tradition in Canaan

BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: ‘The Space Between You and Me’ and ‘Oxbow Island Gang: Summer Bats’

Oct. 25, 1993: Waterville hospital to offer free X-ray screening of any kid’s candy for Halloween, residents from Troy reject land swap in special town meeting, and are changes in the air in St. Albans?

For these Maine families, food allergies make Halloween treats a little trickier

Cutting edge: In the garden, edges cover a multitude of sins

Oct. 24, 2007: Wardens cracking down on ATVs cruising around Sebasticook Lake in Newport, Turnpike Authority rejects toll study, and good gourd, check out all these pumpkins in Farmington!

Deadly E. coli outbreak linked to McDonald’s Quarter Pounders sickens 49 people in 10 states

Oct. 23, 1974: Thieves rob South China country store two nights ago and walk away with $70, Maine’s new school finance scheme is ‘underfunded’ by more than $15 million, and Waterville man sentenced for two deaths