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PublishedApril 30, 2025
Oldies but goodies: Mainers cherish — and cook on — their old stoves
When it comes to stoves, 'brand spanking new' does not appeal to everyone.
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PublishedFebruary 11, 2025
World War II hero from Maine is new namesake of Fort Bragg in North Carolina
World War II Pfc. Roland L. Bragg lived in Maine until his 1999 death and is remembered as a hero. He replaces the fort's original namesake, Confederate Gen. Braxton Bragg.
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PublishedJanuary 20, 2025
Details expected soon on what need be done to preserve Memorial Hall in Oakland
The town's Memorial Hall Committee hired a Portland architectural firm to go over the building to determine what would be needed to preserve it, how much it would cost and how long the work would take, with a report expected in about a month.
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PublishedNovember 14, 2024
What Mainers ate on Thanksgiving through the decades
We pored over Maine's newspaper archives for a casual look at how Mainers from other times celebrated the holiday, and most especially what they were eating.
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PublishedOctober 15, 2024
50 well-preserved Viking Age skeletons unearthed in Denmark
The Viking Age burial ground contains some 50 'exceptionally well-preserved' skeletons.
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PublishedSeptember 26, 2024
A Maine professor spent a month in Poland making bagels and searching for his past
University of Maine at Augusta history professor Robert Bernheim hoped bagel diplomacy could help repair some deep wounds left by the Holocaust.
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PublishedSeptember 6, 2024
After fire, owners say former home of Gov. Coburn in Skowhegan can be restored with help
The niece of the home’s former owner, who died last year, and her husband had been working on the home for months before a fire damaged it in August.
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PublishedJuly 27, 2024
Albion celebrates bicentennial with parade, music, games, food, historical offerings
Hundreds flocked Saturday to Albion to celebrate the town's 200th birthday.
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PublishedJuly 7, 2024
Gripped by a mysterious illness, a Mainer finds an unexpected kindred soul
In 'American Breakdown,' writer Jennifer Lunden spins twin tales of how the medical establishment dismissed her illness, and, some 100 years earlier, that of Alice James, the sister of Henry James.
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PublishedJune 20, 2024
Waterville City Hall exterior to get $85,000 paint job
The City Council on Tuesday voted 7-0 to award the $85,000 contract to Clean Cut Painting Co. of Bethel.
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