Jan. 6 event is combination of teaching, singing in community with participants.
Life & Culture
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Jan. 3, 1978: Paul R. LaVerdiere will become Waterville’s 40th mayor tonight, city officials to meet with airport consultants on $54,000 plan for Robert LaFleur airport, and cost of road salt up 14 percent
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Jan. 2, 2001: Meet Todd Matthew McKay Jr. of South Gardiner, the first baby of the new millennium, United Way of Kennebec Valley to honor Sylvia Lund, and barbers are aging in Maine and working hard to keep up
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Jan. 1, 1981: Waterville, area towns lose out in annual dump sweepstakes, CMP wants to shift its Mason Station in Wiscasset from oil to coal, and you can send Maine to a friend
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Posted inFood & Dining, Recipes
Home Plates: Jambalaya, with a few twists
A Scarborough home cook likes the Creole recipe because it easily accommodates substitutes, plus it lets eaters personalize their portions to suit themselves.
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Sorta, kinda gardening resolutions for the new year
Don’t sweat the small stuff, columnist Tom Atwell vows to himself, but do play a part in fixing the big, ominous environmental picture.
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Dec. 31, 1996: New chickadee license plates coming to all Maine cars beginning July 1, 1999, Nynex & Bell Atlantic telephone companies to merge, and it’s either a cab or a night in jail this New Year’s Eve
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What Mainers read in 2023
Maine authors and subjects were big sellers at the state’s indie bookstores this year, including recent releases ‘Big Heart, Little Stove’ by Lost Kitchen owner Erin French and ‘Maine: A Love Story” by artist Blue Butterfield.
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Dec. 30, 1985: Woman plummets 35 feet in Eaton Mt. lift accident in Skowhegan, new business magazine coming to Maine later this winter, and fixed-rate home mortgages are gaining popularity in Maine
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Photo Column: Kwanzaa families celebrate Kwanzaa
“Anybody can do Kwanzaa, Black, white, Hispanic, anybody,” Shantrice Deschaine of Auburn, says.