With over half of Maine drier than normal or experiencing drought, irrigation systems are coming in handy.
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Arts, entertainment, food and books news from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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Byrne presented with Maine International Film Festival Mid-Life Achievement Award
The award presentation, which kicks off the final weekend of the 10-day Waterville film festival, followed a screening of Byrne’s film ‘The Usual Suspects’ and preceded a Castonguay Square party.
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Non-religious now largest U.S. voting bloc by faith
This dramatic shift among voters is showing up in polls for the first time in a presidential election year.
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‘Five Nights in Maine’ offers portrait of damaged people
The Maris Curran-directed film, showing Saturday and Sunday in the Maine International Film Festival, offers a bleak look at Maine’s landscape and hope for reconciliation.
Posted inLifestyle, Local & State
Yarmouth’s 51st Clam Festival starts Friday with music, a parade, fireworks and lots of clams
This weekend more than 100,000 people will likely descend on the town of about 8,000 for the annual Yarmouth Clam Festival, one of southern Maine’s signature summer events.
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‘The Usual Suspects’ one of the greatest film noir thriller-capers of all time
The film, starring Maine International Film Festival Mid-Life Achievement Award winner Gabriel Byrne, will be shown Friday at the Waterville Opera House.
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Pie On the Porch event planned for July 23 in Farmington
Proceeds will benefit Old South Church’s Newman Wing handicapped accessibility fund.
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France reels at cost of President Francois Hollande’s $11,000-a-month haricuts
Hollande is a Socialist who campaigned on taxing the super-wealthy.
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Gabriel Byrne to receive top MIFF award Friday in Waterville
The actor, who will receive the Maine International Film Festival Mid-Life Achievement Award, speaks about his roles in films including ‘The Usual Suspects’ and ‘Louder than Bombs,” both screening at the festival, as well as the power of film.
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BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: ‘Packed for the Wrong Trip’ and ‘ Hard Light’
W. Zach Griffith’s look inside Abu Ghraib and a creepy, dark murder mystery from Elizabeth Hand