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April 6, 1985: Diamond Match Company permanently closing its manufacturing facility in Oakland, and Waterville bars, restaurants, and bands are all feeling effects of state’s ‘tough’ liquor laws
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From our archives: On the 25th anniversary of ‘Carrie,’ a look at Stephen King’s influential career
By 1999, the prolific Maine author had made a significant impact on the publishing and film industries, not to mention his readers.
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Stephen King’s 50-year career has inspired a generation of writers and teachers
Once thought of as a pop culture phenomenon, the Maine author is now studied by academics and aspiring writers.
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OFF RADAR: ‘We Are Here and It Is Now: Poems’
In Camden poet Dave Morrison’s world, everything has potential.
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April 5, 2000: You can no longer feed the ducks on Maranacook Lake in Winthrop says town council, groundbreaking for new veterans cemetery held in Augusta, and 2 Cony students win essay contest on Washington D.C.
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New Lebanese restaurant in Waterville harkens to immigrant roots, family recipes
Former Waterville mayor Tom Nale is opening MEZZA, a new Lebanese restaurant, located near the area where their Lebanese immigrant relatives settled in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
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Movie Review: ‘The Zone of Interest’ starts slow, grows richer, more compelling, J.P. Devine writes
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 […]