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Jan. 14, 1980: High winds ‘peel’ Don’s IGA roof in Farmington, CMP asking for $35 million rate jump, and a Winslow billboard is literally ‘Gone with the Wind’
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Jan. 13, 1940: Woman leaps from flaming house in Augusta and saves baby, Chizzle Wizzle cast named, and Wirthmore poultrymen predict good year at meeting
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Posted inBooks, Life & Culture, Maine Authors
BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: ‘Notes on the Landscape of Home’ and ‘The Outhouse in Winter’
A collection of 32 essays that explore sense of community, and a coming-of-age adventure during the summer of 1959
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AUTHOR EVENT: Tim Cotton
Listen as Cotton tells stories about all things in the dooryard
Posted inJ.P. Devine, Life & Culture, Movie Review J.P. Devine
‘Slow Horses’ finale one nail-biting scene after another, J.P. Devine writes
The fifth and finale episode of “Slow Horses,” titled “Old Scores,” does not disappoint. The show, based on Mick Herron’s “Dead Lions,” gives us in this last hour, “Code September” and the “Cicadas,” (long sleeping and forgotten Russian spies) for an operation that will bring to mind 9/11. I will tell you no more except […]
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Jan. 12, 1996: After over 50 years, Showhegan organist to play her last note, graphic book pulled from Mt. Abram High School, and fire razes home in Freedom
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Posted inLife & Culture, On Music Lucky Clark
Thom Wall juggles performing with publishing company
Famed juggler returns to Maine for school performances leading up to Jan. 14 show as part ofJohnson Hall’s “On The Road” series.
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Jan. 11, 1972: Attempted break-in made at Bruneau’s market in Winthrop, truck & car hit on Pelton Hill in Manchester, and the electricity went out in Vienna for almost two hours Saturday night
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