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BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: “Airtight” and “Maine Mothers Who Murdered”
When New Jersey State Police Lieutenant Luke Somers confronts an armed murder suspect, a split-second decision and three fatal gunshots condemn his brother to a slow, agonizing death, and himself to seven days of guilt and desperate action.
KEN ALLEN: 33rd Sportsman’s Show kicks off Friday
Next weekend, the 33rd State of Maine Sportsman’s Show runs from Friday through Sunday at the Augusta Civic Center, a show that has always aimed to offer family fun for all ages — but particularly for children.
DEIRDRE FLEMING — OUTDOORS: Special emphasis on the bass run
PORTLAND — The guy playing the acoustic guitar early in the evening was a fisherman. And the artist singing those original Pete Kilpatrick songs later in the night was as well.
OUTDOORS: Little dirt on hands helps cultivate crops, calmness
Last week, when the weather warmed and an hour slipped through our sleep like sand through an hour glass — too quickly, so softly, it seemed a tenderness unfolding — I turned once again to the happily irrational acts of welcoming spring early.
TRAVELIN’ MAINE(RS): Belfast offers so much, we’ll just have to keep going back
The main street through town drops steeply into the sea, escorted by shops and restaurants that celebrate the best of Maine arts, books, food, fun, hospitality and service. Belfast is where it’s at!
BOOKS: It’s hard to digest
A can of Coke contains roughly nine teaspoons of sugar. Lunchables were created as a way to revive a flagging interest in bologna. People like chips that snap with about four pounds of pressure per square inch.
BOOKS: Joe Pickett returns in ‘Breaking Point’
In “Breaking Point,” C.J. Box’s 13th thriller featuring Wyoming game warden C.J. Pickett, our hero is still willing to mix it up to protect the wild landscape he loves and the colorful characters who roam it.