Local chefs and market managers helped us compile loads of dish ideas to reinvigorate your Easter proteins the second time around.
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Posted inFood & Dining, Maine Gardener
When the blossoms have gone by, plant your Easter lily outside
If you’re lucky, you’ll get blooms in the garden the following year, apt for a flower that symbolizes rebirth.
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Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books, Maine Authors
The rise and fall of Monson, Maine
‘Here & Everywhere Else’ tells the story of the remote town over several hundred years. But be forewarned: it’s dense reading.
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April 9, 1995: Police arrest robber who held up Winslow barbershop this week, Skowhegan 4th-grade teacher to retire after 45 years of service, and Maine lawyers are ‘just plain sick of’ O.J. Simpson trial
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April 8, 1963: Over 1,800 line up in Winthrop for polio vaccine, former chairman of Maine Public Utilities Commission dies, and a truly ‘sunken road’ in Leeds
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Posted inBusiness, Food & Dining
California lawmaker wants Peeps to change its ingredients
A bill in the California Legislature would ban five chemicals found in some of the most popular candy in the U.S.
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April 7, 1971: Maine’s ‘little towns bemoan rising school costs’, study involving creating a medical school in Maine funds’ defeated, and 50 unmarked state police cars hit the road around the state
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Posted inBooks, Life & Culture, Maine Authors
OFF RADAR: ‘Comfort is an Old Barn’
A selection of writings that reveals the capabilities and sensitivities that make up a top-notch reporter
Posted inJ.P. Devine, Life & Culture, Movie Review J.P. Devine
Something for everyone in newest ‘Great Expectations,’ writes J.P. Devine
I was taken, in my New York days, by a girl named Estella, who insisted that I read Charles Dickens’ “Great Expectations,” because she was named after the character in the novel. I didn’t get very far with the book or Estella, and abandoned both. Make of that what you will. I just finished three […]
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April 6, 1999: Hundreds of bricks fall outside Lamey-Wellehan shoe store in Augusta, a former Navy doctor is finding peace in Manchester, and a Palermo woman is seeing new doors open with reading class
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