It is Maine’s largest agricultural fair and typically draws about 225,000 people.
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River Arts gets wild with latest exhibition
The Damariscotta gallery is showing ‘Wild Things’ through May 22.
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Indie Film: SMCC’s student film fest returns bigger and better
This year’s Maine Mayhem also includes the best of last year’s class, whose festival was canceled because of the pandemic.
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‘Vax Live’ concert raises more than $300 million, 26 million vaccine doses
Norway, Spain, the UAE and New Zealand all offered its surplus shots.
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Summer entertainment season returns to central Maine
With the loosening of public health restrictions across Maine, many communities plan to reignite traditional events while others say they will wait another year before welcoming people to their festivals.
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Green Plate Special: New UMaine program helps towns to turn food waste into ‘black gold’
At home, you can put sour milk to use in pancakes.
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Grow: onions
Onions are a wonderful plant to grow because, if things go well, you can eat them beginning in June and keep eating them all the way to March. People who start their seeds inside can start them as early as February. Now is the time to plant seedlings or onion sets – which are dried […]
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Maine Gardener: Plant sales have returned
And more farmers are getting in on the action, offering their own seedling sales. But take care you don’t transfer any pests — plant or insect — with your new plants.
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At the Farnsworth, Robert Indiana and the Wyeths share the spotlight this summer
The Rockland museum displays its gift from Betsy Wyeth and work that Indiana made in tribute to Marsden Hartley.
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Lloyd Price, singer-songwriter and early rock influence, dies at 88
Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998, he was among the last survivors of a post-World War II scene in New Orleans.