Ever since the North Atlantic Blues Festival began back in 1994 I have interviewed one of the performers to bring attention to each of this award-winning festival for the last 29 years (the 2020 Festival was canceled due to the pandemic). I am continuing that streak by selecting an artist from the 2024 line-up and […]
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July 3, 2000: Lake group supplies Oakland police with boat to patrol Messalonskee Lake, one third of Americans almost had a mental health problem in last year according to study, and canoeists & kayakers journey down Kennebec River for 4th celebration
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Central Maine 4th of July celebration draws thousands to Clinton
Two days of events, including a country music concert, parade and fireworks display, were expected to bring about 25,000 people to Clinton on Wednesday and Thursday, organizers said.
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July 2, 1996: Have high school principals become an endangered species? Also, local men arrested on shotgun charges, and how $1 could cost $58,000 in taxpayer legal fees
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Central Maine celebrates the 4th of July
Check out our listing of 4th of July events.
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July 1, 1978: Around 700 workers at Scott Paper Co. plant in Winslow vote to strike, an elderly man was rescued from waters of Belgrade Lake early yesterday morning, and this Blue Hill business is supplying fireworks for 45 Maine customers including Waterville on the 4th
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The plan for this garden is, well, let’s just call it casual
Tom and Nancy Atwell practice a style of landscape design they call ‘design with shovel.’
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A Mainer took refuge in her garden during COVID, then wrote about it
In the understated and evocatively written ‘A Gardener at the End of the World,’ Margot Anne Kelley muses on time, pandemics and plants.
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June 30, 1995: Gardiner couple renews 60-year-old wedding vows, Gov. Angus King signs $3.5 million budget, and fourth of July doesn’t mean a holiday for all
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June 29, 1989: Puzzled residents want to fix ‘slipped’ boundary on the Madison-Skowhegan line, Plymouth disaster drill brings surprise, and abortion opponents expect mixed court ruling in Augusta
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