The off-price retailer of furniture, home decor and seasonal accessories expects to hire up to 65 people for full- and part-time jobs to staff the new store at the Marketplace at Augusta.
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Oct. 12, 1882: Area’s onion crop ‘a comparative failure’
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Union library to feature mysteries author at Oct. 19 Soup & Suspense event
Barbara Ross, author of the Maine Clambake Mysteries and the Jane Darrowfield Mysteries, is scheduled to give a presentation Wednesday, Oct. 19, during Vose Library’s annual Soup & Suspense event at 293 Common Road in Union. The event will be held in person and via Zoom, according to a news release from Diane True, library […]
Posted inKennebec Journal, Local & State
In effort to reduce spending, Hallowell, Farmingdale, Manchester to consider combining public works resources
The three municipalities will meet Monday evening for an open-ended discussion on how to bring down costs by sharing some services.
Posted inKennebec Journal, Local & State
71-year-old Vienna man missing for last 5 days
Michael Holmes, 71, was last seen Thursday leaving Tower Road with plans to go to Winthrop.
Posted inCommunity, Kennebec Journal
Somerville farm plans harvest festival Oct. 16
SOMERVILLE — People can celebrate the harvest from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 16, during a festival at Pumpkin Vine Family Farm, 217 Hewett Road. Attendees can find a jack o’ lantern, orange or white, then press a glass of apple cider. They can watch spinning and weaving demonstrations throughout the day and […]
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SNAPSHOT: ‘Autumn Arriving on the Kennebec’
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Augusta receives $263,000 to provide access to treatment for substance use disorder
Project Recovery in Augusta is to be modeled after the Operation HOPE program in Waterville.
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Whitefield society to feature award-winning Maine author Oct. 16
The Whitefield Historical Society plans to hold its annual Day of Remembrance at 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 16, at the Whitefield Fire Station, 24 Townhouse Road. Deborah Gould, author of “The Eastern novels: The Early Years and Later On,” will be this year’s guest speaker. Gould grew up in Portland and Brunswick. After college in […]