Jonathan Glazer’s “Zone of Interest,” (“Sexy Beast” 2000) loosely based on Martin Amis’s novel of the same name, tells the true story of Rudolf Hoss, a Nazi commandant who ran the infamous Auschwitz concentration camp in World War II Poland while his wife and five children led a passive, comfortable life in a pristine new […]
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April 4, 1988: First Maine caribou of 1988 to be named after town of Canaan, committee in Fairfield to study use of $1.9 million ‘nest egg’, and 250 ‘youthful minds’ in China explained their inventions to audiences at a convention recently
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Comedian Juston McKinney always working on new material
Back in February I chatted with a couple of comedians, Mark Turcotte and Tuck Tucker, and really enjoyed it, and with the way the world is swirling around, I figure that laughter is something we all need right now. So I contacted a gentleman I talked with a couple of years ago to get another […]
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April 3, 1991: Is a cruise line coming to the Kennebec River as early as next month? Also, we meet a couple of students holding down jobs while still in high school
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April 2, 2004: No decision yet on merger of MaineGeneral Health’s Waterville and Augusta hospitals into one facility, possibly in Sidney, and 2 former executives at Maine Biological Laboratories plead guilty to trying to smuggle chicken virus into country from Saudi Arabia
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Julia Gagnon of Cumberland secures top 24 spot on ‘American Idol’
The USM student is headed to Hawaii to compete week by week with the other finalists on the TV singing contest.
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April 1, 1975: Waterville man fired from Augusta Mental Health Institute following his conviction of rape & sodomy, Maine Supreme Court allows forest excise tax, and Gov. James Longley appears to be winning the battle of the budget
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Washington County libraries are preparing for the future
In Maine’s poorest county, libraries offer not only books but internet access and community workforce support.
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Anniversary milestone for the guy with the greenest thumb around
As our Maine Gardener column turns 20, writer Tom Atwell reflects on how gardening has changed.
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March 31, 1996: Hundreds pay respects to Maine elder statesmen Edmund Muskie in Arlington, Va., GOP & Democrats hoping issues won in Augusta help them in election, and Augusta & Waterville emergency rooms aren’t what you see on TV’s ‘ER’
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