The University of Maine at Farmington’s Visiting Writers Series will present award-winning poet Arisa White as the popular program’s final reader of the season at 7:30 p.m., on Thursday, April 6, in The Landing in the UMF Olsen Student Center. The reading is free and open to the public and will be followed by a […]
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Jumbled wreckage complicates Pennsylvania chocolate factory blast probe
Seven people were killed and several others wounded in the powerful blast at the R.M Palmer Co. plant in West Reading.
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Twitter celebs balk at paying Elon Musk for blue check mark
After months of delay, Musk is gleefully promising that Saturday is the deadline for celebrities, journalists, and others who’d been verified for free to pony up or lose their legacy status.
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Maine Jewish Film Festival launches statewide showings of “Four Winters” documentary
The Maine Jewish Film Festival will offer film screenings statewide of the new documentary film, “Four Winters,” written, produced and directed by Julia Mintz. Described as a “stunning, heartfelt narrative of heroism and resilience,” this film tells the story of the 25,000 Jewish partisans who organized in the forests of Ukraine and Poland to resist […]
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Local Franco American author to speak about her book at free event
Local Franco American author Peggy DeBlois will discuss her novel, “The Toll Road North,” at a book signing and author talk at 12 p.m. on Wednesday, March 29, at the Franco Center in Lewiston. Peggy Lafreniere DeBlois grew up in Lewiston, Maine and is a proud graduate of Bowdoin College. She enjoyed careers in marketing, journalism, […]
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New Russian campaign tries to entice men to fight in Ukraine
The Kremlin denies that another call-up is planned for what it calls its ‘special military operation’ in Ukraine.
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Eager to support local operations, Mainers brave the chill on Maine Maple Sunday
Maine Maple Sunday Weekend is an annual event, with sugarhouses across the state opening their doors for visitors to see the maple syrup-making process and taste the final products.
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Ukraine demands emergency UN meeting over Putin nuclear plan
Putin argued that by deploying its tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus, Russia was following the lead of the United States.
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Idaho governor signs firing squad execution bill into law
Pharmaceutical companies increasingly have barred executioners from using their drugs, saying they were meant to save lives.
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Russia ‘largely stalled’ in Bakhmut, shifting focus, U.K. says
The top commander of Ukraine’s military says his forces are pushing back against Russian troops in the long and grinding battle for the town of Bakhmut.