Activities are scheduled to begin Saturday at Lake George Regional Park and run until the flagship event, Skijor Skowhegan, at the fairgrounds Feb. 22.
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Feb. 9, 1984: Fairfield-area school addition for industrial arts program given green light, and Waterville directors’ ‘wish list’ means tax hike this year
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Tula from Fairfield is playing for Maine in this year’s Puppy Bowl
The Siberian husky-Great Pyrenees mix will represent the Animal Refuge League of Greater Portland in Sunday’s event to raise awareness about pet adoption.
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Feb. 8, 2007: Meet this 14-month-old Chelsea girl who’s ‘heart beat the odds’, and ambulance fees likely to go up for residents in Chelsea, Hallowell and Manchester
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Sports, ice and a good dog: Week In Photos Jan. 31-Feb. 7, 2025
Here are some of our favorite Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel photos from the past week.
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Maine writer and civil rights pioneer team up on new kids’ book
Phillip Hoose collaborated on ‘Claudette Colvin: I Want Freedom Now!’ about Colvin’s refusal to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus in 1955, nine months before Rosa Parks.
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Feb. 7, 1996: Waterville city council allows closing sale for Levine’s, officials eye ice jam on Kennebec River in Fairfield, and driver rams Waterville police cruiser at 1 a.m. last night
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Feb. 6, 2004: Gov. Baldacci feeling ‘wonderful’ after car crash landed him in hospital, and pump canopy riling Gardiner residents
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Feb. 5, 1982: Check out this ‘pretty little house’ built by a Waterville grandfather for his 12-year-old granddaughter
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Feb. 4, 1994: Real estate developer from South Freeport wants to add 103 new homes in East Winthrop, Central Maine Power lays off another 42 workers, and Maine’s outgoing House Speaker leaves his post
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