The council voted to forgive the debt of nearly $104,000, with the festival disbanding because of financial struggles.
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Arts, entertainment, food and books news from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
Posted inMaine, Religion and Values
Central Maine holiday stories of faith
Happy holidays to you and your family from ours!
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Baba Ram Dass, spiritual guru and LSD pioneer, dies at 88
The 1960s counterculture leader wrote about his experiences with drugs, set up projects to help prisoners and those facing terminal illness and sought to enlighten others about the universal struggle with aging.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, News, Times Record
Portland printer and his press leave mark on new ‘Little Women’ movie
David Wolfe’s Civil War-era press – and maybe the Portland printer himself – will appear in the movie that comes out on Christmas Day, along with another Mainer.
Posted inNation & World, Politics, Religion and Values
Evangelical tussling over anti-Trump editorial escalates
The letter to the magazine’s president includes a veiled warning that Christianity Today could lose readership or advertising revenue.
Posted inFood & Dining, Green plate special, Recipes
Green Plate Special: As the North Pole melts, Santa is vulnerable
This year, offer him vegan cookies and oat milk, and help stave off climate change, in a small way.
Posted inNation & World, Religion and Values
Pope, U.N. chief issue message on migrants, climate, nuclear weapons
The Vatican and the United Nations have found increasing common ground under the first pope from the ‘global south.’
Posted inNation & World, Religion and Values
Trump blasts Christian magazine that called for his removal
Christianity Today published an editorial arguing the president has a ‘blackened moral record.’
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Life & Culture, News
Virginia biochemist Camille Schrier is crowned Miss America
The winner’s talent demonstration was the catalytic decomposition of hydrogen peroxide.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, News
Lewiston artist wins $25,000 fellowship
Reggie Burrows Hodges is named the Ellis-Beauregard Foundation resident.