BATH — Stand-up comic Johnny Ater performs at the Chocolate Church Arts Center on Saturday, Feb. 15. The comedian, a lifelong Mainer, offers up stories about life, family, relationships, and his colorful local friends, whom he brings to life on stage for all to meet. He also offers light-hearted jibes and himself and fellow Mainers, […]
February 2020
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Brunswick bookstore offers talk by Portland writer, former POW
BRUNSWICK — Kifah Abdulla is due to read from his new book “Mountains without Peaks” at Gulf of Maine Books on Saturday, Feb. 15. Abdulla, who reads at 3 p.m. at the 134 Maine St. store, is a Portland writer, poet, artist, performer, social activist and world citizen. He is involved with the “Rebel: Take […]
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Brunswick talk to delve into mapping 18th century Midcoast
BRUNSWICK — Friends of Merrymeeting Bay’s fifth presentation of its 23rd annual Winter Speaker Series is “George Sproule’s Mapping the Mid-Coast, 1770.” The talk, which features Matthew Edney, a cartography history professor at the University of Southern Maine, takes place in the Morrill Meeting Room of Curtis Memorial Library at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 12. […]
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AP Fact check: Trump’s exaggerated ‘great American comeback’
The “comeback” President Trump claimed in his State of the Union speech drew on falsehoods about U.S. energy supremacy, health care and the economy as well as distortions about his predecessor’s record.
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Leonard Pitts: No, Rev. Graham, the evidence of our vanishing ‘moral decency’ isn’t what you think it is
Look away from the backsides of JLo and Shakira and consider the burning of the planet and the spike in hate crimes, for starters.
Posted inAmerican Journal
We Love to Eat: Feb. 6
Community meal – Thursday, Feb. 6, noon, Westbrook-Warren Congregational Church, 810 Main St., Westbrook. Baked ham, $5. Bean supper – Saturday, Feb. 8, 5-6:30 p.m., Casco Masonic Lodge, 20 Mill St., Yarmouth. Three kinds of beans, hot dogs, macaroni and cheese, coleslaw, homemade biscuits and pies. $10, $4. Nonprofit organizations who want to list public meals should […]
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Maine Bicentennial: Cumberland
Greely Institute in Cumberland was established through the will of Eliphalet Greely, who was born in 1784 on Greely Road, named after his ancestors. There was at the time no high school in Cumberland. Though he and his wife, Elizabeth Loring Greely, also born on Greely Road, had no children of their own, […]
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The Wrap: Baking is all the rage
Brew tours merge, bakers rise up, the color of fries and Starbucks delivers.
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