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Posted inFood & Dining, Maine Gardener
A progress report: The columnist’s garden in September
The plentiful blooms make a powerful argument for late bloomers. But the tomatoes, sigh, are taking their own sweet time.
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Sept. 3, 1992: No one injured when gunman enters Skowhegan bar and fired two guns, crews moving houses in anticipation of new Waterville-Winslow bridge, and a Farmington drug store is meeting Walmart’s challenge
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Posted inFood & Dining
For 100 years, a family has gathered in Penobscot County to reconnect and eat beans
Two marriages first conjoined the Smith and Smart families, and an anniversary party in 1923 turned into an annual reunion that marked a major anniversary of its own this summer.
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Sept. 2, 2006: Maine Turnpike officials send apology letter to Gov. Baldacci for ‘expensive dinner’, Maine’s political campaign shifting into more ‘intense phase’, and students say the ‘bathrooms actually work’ at the new Cony High School
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Posted inBooks, Life & Culture, Maine Authors
OFF RADAR: ‘Not All Are Weeping’
The poems in Jean Anne Feldeisen’s first collection might best be characterized as reflections on uncertainty.
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Sept. 1, 1981: Athens woman’s car stolen, set afire near County Road in Waterville, Sen. Mitchell criticizes Reagan on country’s economic future, and UMF faculty take pay issue directly to students
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Posted inJ.P. Devine, Life & Culture, Movie Review J.P. Devine, Op-Eds
Lingnau has all the right moves going and keeps a few cards hidden under her billowing skirts in ‘The Empress,’ J.P. Devine writes
Directors Florian Cossen and Katrin Gebbe give us an historical fantasy, full of diddling with that history, but still playing out in a glorious and glossy setting. Shot in Germany, where everything, outside of the big towns, is summer, verdant and lavish. “The Empress” is full of beautiful gardens, and people playing people who weren’t […]
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Aug. 31, 1994: Fort Western Sports moving business to downtown Augusta, Gardiner pitches rifle ban proposal, and Windsor Fairgoers relish this fried onion treat
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Aug. 30, 1985: Waterville’s John Martin’s Manor escape’s sale to Atlantic Hotels Inc. of Newton, Mass., Sears wins Maine consumer case, and over 400 union employees of C.F. Hathaway Co. gathered outside Waterville plant for ‘walk-in’
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