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Maine Gardener: Strategic weeding can help make it a manageable, even mediative, chore
Keeping weeds from going to seed and always having a trowel on hand are starters.
Deep Water: ‘Eastern Columbine,’ by Laura Bonazzoli
Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.
Best-Sellers: ‘The Midcoast,’ ‘Happy-Go-Lucky’
The current top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Longfellow Books in Portland.
‘Golden Girls’ pop-up restaurant has the golden touch
The comedy rises to pop culture relevancy again.
Suspect mistakenly freed in Lady Gaga’s dog theft recaptured
James Jackson’s arrest comes as one of three men charged in the case pleaded no contest to second-degree robbery.
Keanu Reeves takes rare TV role in historical thriller
Keanu Reeves will star in a TV adaptation of ‘The Devil in the White City.’
Warner Bros. axes $90 million ‘Batgirl’ film planned for HBO Max
The decision is highly unusual for such a high-priced and nearly finished movie.
Wayward bird seen off the coast of Maine
The breeding range for the tufted puffin normally extends from northern California to Alaska, eastern Russia and northern Japan, and they are rarely seen in Maine.
‘Get Low’ a tender-hearted, ancient ghostly love story
Equal parts folk tale, fable and real-life legend about the mysterious, 1930s Tennessee hermit who famously threw his own rollicking funeral party