A group of southern Maine women have donated $58,000 to Finding Our Voices in what Patrisha McLean — the president/founder of the grassroots nonprofit giving peer-to-peer hand-ups to women survivors of domestic abuse — calls “the gift that keeps on giving.” The $18,000 awarded to the group in February has more than tripled with a […]
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Kennebec County public teachers bring outdoor learning to students
Funding is provided by the Maine Environmental Education Association’s Mini-Grants for Outdoor Learning Program.
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BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: ‘Hunger Hill’ and ‘Hector Fox and the Daring Flight’
A fast-paced crime drama debut from Philip Baker, and Astrid Sheckels’s third children’s book about Hector and all his quirky woodland pals
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EagleMania plans Snow Pond performance
EagleMania, an Eagles tribute band, will perform at 5 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 4, at Snow Pond Center for the Arts, 8 Goldenrod Lane in Sidney. The bans has been dazzling audiences for over a decade by reproducing the music of The Eagles. The EagleMania show consists of the Eagles’ greatest hits, as well as select […]
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Scouts hold annual Haunted Woods event
BELGRADE — Children and parents clad in costumes skulked through Camp Bomazeen Oct. 14 for the annual Haunted Woods event. Cub Scouts and their parents visited different activity areas around camp, such as archery, BB gun shooting, a haunted house run by Augusta Troop 603, outdoor cooking, the obstacle course, pumpkin painting and arts and […]
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New ‘Frasier’ jokes flat, set boring, J.P. Devine writes
Yes. Frasier was among the most popular American television shows of the late 20th century. It was as fresh as an autumn apple, carved from marble by some of the great comedy writers of the 20th century. It was so popular that everyone who ran into Kelsey Grammer on the street, at the dry cleaners, […]
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Sara Gazarek talks about Säje’s upcoming Portland concert
By now you are probably aware of my love of vocal harmonies no matter what the genre. Well, I have made an incredible discovery that I am eager to share with you: the Grammy nominated quartet, Säje (rhymes with “beige”) — made up of Sara Gazarek, Amanda Taylor, Johnaye Kendrick and Erin Bentlage. These four […]
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First Farmington Open Chess Tournament crowns champions
The Farmington Open Chess Tournament, hosted recently at the Farmington Community Center, held its inaugural event to celebrate National Chess Day. This tournament marked Farmington’s first-ever sanctioned chess tournament recognized by the U.S. Chess Federation. Its 42 competitors were aged between 12 and 77. Scholastic entrant Charlie Creswell claimed the championship trophy with a crucial […]
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Western Foothills Land Trust buys 721 acres of forest, river frontage
The Western Foothills Land Trust recently enlarged its existing Twin Bridges Preserve by acquiring an adjacent 721-acre forest tract known as Edwards Mills, one of the Chadbourne Tree Farm working forests in western Maine. The tract includes access from Route 117 and land on both sides of the Crooked River in Norway, Otisfield and Harrison. […]
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‘Arsenic and Old Lace’ clean, corny and harmless, J.P. Devine writes
Cary Grant, who starred in over 51 movies in America, and became the most-beloved actor in movie history before he was an angel in “The Bishop’s Wife,” an ex husband in “Philadelphia Story” or a spy in “Notorious,” and became the most-watched, beloved actor in movie history. Grant was hired in 1944 to play a […]