Atsuko Fujimoto of Norimoto Bakery won for Outstanding Pastry Chef or Baker and Barak Olins’ ZUbakery took home the award for Outstanding Bakery.
Life & Culture
Arts, entertainment, food and books news from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
Posted inLife & Culture, On Music Lucky Clark
On Music: Collective Soul celebrating 30 years together, new double album, tour with Hootie & The Blowfish
Since 1994 I’ve had the pleasure of chatting with Will Turpin, bassist and backing vocalist, with the Georgia-based, five-piece band Collective Soul. But 2024 is a special year for this group in that it marks their 30th year together as well as their latest album (a double one, in fact) “Here To Eternity,” which came […]
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June 10, 1999: Check out this ‘internet coffee shop’ on College Avenue in Waterville, threat leads to searches of students at Unity Elementary School, and Maine’s mental health commissioner to resign
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Posted inFood & Dining, Maine Gardener
Some gardeners like to garden. Some just like the results
If you’re in the second camp, these tips may nudge you toward the first.
Posted inFood & Dining, Vegan Kitchen
Maine’s slice of the kelp industry continues to grow
Companies are manufacturing foods made with Maine-grown kelp, from burgers to energy bars.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books
Pulitzer-winning journalist made sure to get Maine right in new crime novel
Tom Ricks, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner who has a home on Deer Isle, set the mystery ‘Everyone Knows But You’ in coastal Maine.
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June 9, 1988: Obscene newspaper from three Richmond seniors keeps them from graduation, report says most of Maine’s lakes and ponds are within federal clean-water standards, and this Vassalboro man gets his trash back
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June 8, 2006: Ex-funeral home director from Windsor & Camden sentenced to year in prison, councilors approve panel to study combining Waterville & Winslow fire departments, and emotions run high for these Waterville high school graduates
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Posted inBooks, Life & Culture, Maine Authors
OFF RADAR: ‘Unleashed and Other Poems’
Page-long journeys from Thomas R. Moore
Posted inLife & Culture
Wilton-area fitness program for those 55+ aims to ‘keep people moving’
At The Studio in Wilton, Mary Kalel aims to show her older clients that they’re “never too old to start a fitness routine.”