There are more than 70 restaurants statewide offering deals during the event, which starts Friday and runs through March 12.
Life & Culture
Arts, entertainment, food and books news from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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Feb. 26, 2003: Vienna may drop its one town police officer and contract with Kennebec Sheriff’s Office, Augusta to test private wells near landfill, and can the Buker Middle School be saved from the latest budget ax?
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Posted inFood & Dining, Maine Gardener
Tips for springtime pruning
Bonus: Bring any branches you trimmed from flowering shrubs and trees inside and arrange in vases. Be patient, and in a few weeks enjoy beautiful blossoms.
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Home Plates: How do you define comfort?
For one retiree in South Bristol, dinnertime comfort means Continental Chicken.
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Feb. 25, 1975: Canaan dairyman plans to challenge Edmund Muskie for Senate in 1976, C.F. Hathaway Co. in Waterville launches sales drive, and lecturer at UMaine in Orono talks about his role in ‘Watergate’
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Skijor Skowhegan, back for a 6th year, delivers dose of adrenaline for snow lovers after mild winter
Thousands came to the Skowhegan State Fairgrounds to watch the annual skijoring competition, which has become a unique tradition that is growing in popularity.
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Feb. 24, 1994: ‘Augusta schools should focus on quality’ says parents, Winthrop’s new communications center opens and it’s ‘high-tech’, and Maine Public Television Plus gets added to cable lineups in the Augusta area
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BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: ‘Death in Venison’ and ‘Forgotten Industries and Institutions of Maine’
A debut collection of three mystery novellas set in Maine, discoveries of an “urban explorer.”
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Feb. 23, 1988: Former Waterville doctor, Dr. Charles Edwin Towne, dies at his home in Fla. at age of 81, Jay pupils carry their protest all the way to State House in Augusta, and the Swaggart broadcasts will go on as planned on Maine TV stations for now
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MOVIE REVIEW: ‘Holdovers’ gives us incredible performances by the two main players, J.P. Devine says
A neurotic, hidden alcoholic, obsessive disciplinarian has been selected to spend the Christmas break monitoring boys who couldn’t be picked up by their parents.