The talk will focus on Vietze’s new book ‘This Wild Land.’
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March 16, 2001: DHS takes two children from their Chelsea home in Schofield case, panel reaches preliminary agreement on state budget, and soon-to-be 95-year old Augusta woman reflects on life at her Kennebec Plaza apartment
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James McMurtry talks about songwriting, touring, upcoming sold out Rockland show
Let’s face it, I have a thing for great songwriters, ones that can nail you with a quick turn of a phrase or make you laugh or cry with mere words. Artists like that are true wordsmiths, people like John Hiatt, Steve Earle, Shawn Phillips, Phil Ochs or the late, great Bill Morrissey can pen […]
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Mainer moves writing conference from New York City back home
Shanna McNair is bringing The Writers Hotel conference to Boothbay Harbor after years in New York City. Maine writers scheduled to lead sessions include Tess Gerritsen, Cathie Pelletier and Lily King.
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March 15, 1980: El Salvador man who was robbed, assaulted in Waterville scheduled to fly home next week, Pizza Hut signs lease at JFK Mall in Waterville, and Madison Electric Works seeks mill contract
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March 14, 1968: Gardiner man found shot to death with wife held on murder charge, $1.1 million Augusta General Hospital expansion plans termed ‘inadequate’, and all dogs in Maine must be immunized against rabies before they can be licensed begins April 1
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Steve Martin and Martin Short coming to Merrill in November
Tickets go on sale Friday morning.
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Maine lobstermen sue sustainability group for defamation over ‘red listing’
Seafood Watch, a program of the Monterey Bay Aquarium in California, unfairly downgraded its evaluation of the Maine lobster fishery last fall, the fishermen say.
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As a Maine distillery grows, so does worry over ‘whiskey fungus’
The black blight is spreading near large distilleries and threatening home values in places such as Kentucky. Now some neighbors of Wiggly Bridge Distillery say the fungus has come to York.
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March 13, 1984: 9-year-old Fairfield boy was ‘stuck in a tree and choking’ and rescued, nine left homeless after apartment blaze at apartment house in North Vassalboro, and Winslow council backs a ‘peaceful Russian connection’
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