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Buffalo Wild Wings GO taking shape in Augusta, old Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant knocked down in Waterville
Coverage of restaurants, food trucks and food events in the Augusta and Waterville areas.
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Penobscot chef to cook at White House next week
Joe Robbins, who was a James Beard semifinalist this year, will be 1 of 5 Indigenous chefs at the White House Tribal Nations Summit.
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Dec. 3, 1998: Waterville area apparently a great skiing Mecca, according to phone book cover, local United Way raises $600,000, and difficult roads in Moscow area result in 3 accidents in one week
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Dec. 2, 1980: Augusta man goes oversees to help Asian refugees, Augusta’s Japanese-made police cars to remain in use, and city’s granite Vietnam war memorial erected second time now with correct names
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Dec. 1, 1988: Former Norridgewock chicken farmer & his wife sue U.S. government, 2 Maine TV stations reject Jay International Paper ads, and Catholic Church acts to bail out ‘religious’ pensioners
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Nov. 30, 1995: Owner of McDonald’s in Gardiner, Rockland, and Damariscotta fined for labor law violations, plans continue for Hallowell-area school child care program, and the importance of Meals on Wheels for those housebound
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A Bowdoin professor collects his thoughts on the Black American experience
Anthony Walton’s ‘The End of Respectability’ features a dozen essays, written over time, with his observations on race in this country.
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Nov. 29, 2002: Born in Maine in 1902, Italian sandwich turns the big 100, Maine Central Institute coach opens up his home for Thanksgiving, and Hanukkah beings at sundown today
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Community Plate builds connections in Maine, one potluck supper at a time
The nonprofit group hosts free story-sharing potluck suppers around the state in an effort to combat the epidemic of loneliness.