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Life & Culture
Arts, entertainment, food and books news from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
Long-term road project will detour traffic at Veterans Bridge and I-295
The project will add southbound access to I-295 at Exit 4 in an effort to relieve traffic congestion on Broadway and increase highway efficiency.
March 15, 1983: Town of Litchfield hires new town manager, town of Windsor adopts new budget, and Hallowell prepares for April referendum
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See portraits, basketball, and hearing in Central Maine Week In Photos
Here are some of our favorite Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel photos from the past week.
Colby’s exhibit of protest posters shows Chicanx people speaking truth to power
The show, which runs through June 8, reminds us of the role of protest art in effecting societal change.
March 14, 1992: Parents in Vassalboro say new school is making their kids sick, Walmart may be coming to both Augusta and Waterville, and medicine has been restored for some 200 mental health patients in Augusta area
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March 13, 1973: Temperature rises to 119 degrees in Waterville… by way of broken sign, and government grant of nearly $18M received here
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March 12, 1986: Augusta bank robber given 6 year prison sentence, string of ordinances removes city of Waterville parking spaces, and fire damages Fairfield home
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March 11, 2001: Town of Jefferson votes down middle school for Union 51, state library sustains water damage following winter storm, and Maine & snowmobiling
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March 10, 1995: Thorndike couple’s 25-acre lot in Clinton was clearcut without their permission, state paper mills want fewer taxes in 1995, and these Skowhegan woman will bike across US
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