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Portland Ballet goes to Colby College. The assignment? Create a new work from scratch.
Eleven Colby students are working alongside the professional dance company on a new piece inspired by Maine’s landscape, history and lighthouses to be performed in Westbrook and Waterville.
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Jan. 28, 1993: Central Mainers split on subject of gays in military after Clinton asks democrats to back policy to lift ban, Pittsfield under a water shortage, and North Vassalboro man charged with robbery
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University of Maine at Augusta professor demystifies American yoga in new book
Sarah Hentges’ fourth book is about how we care for ourselves and others amidst a toxic culture of individualism, perfectionism, consumption, exploitation, competition and other destructive ideas and behaviors.
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Jan. 27, 1982: New $300K fence may be built atop Augusta’s Memorial Bridge to halt jumpers, 2 still missing from Boston plane, and South Gardiner needs some love, too!
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Jan. 26, 1977: 67-year-old Waterville landmark hotel goes up in flames, CMP scraps its plans for Sears Island A-Plant, and could passenger rail service come back to Maine?
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Jan. 25, 1999: Laptops coming to Augusta police cruiser vehicles by early next month, and Augusta Mental Health Institute has a new clinical director
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Jan. 24, 1979: These five Belgrade Lakes towns asked to take on Central Maine Power’s dams, and death penalty advocates made ‘impassioned please’ in Augusta yesterday
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Lincoln County welcomes another new farm sanctuary
The Cottontail Cottage Farm Sanctuary has relocated its 65 animal residents from a 50-acre plot in Cherryfield to a new, secluded farmhouse in Whitefield, with plans to open its doors to the public later this year.
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Jan. 23, 1989: Some 400 people gather at capitol steps in Augusta to show disapproval for Roe vs. Wade decision 16 years later, and Bowdoinham students examine ‘garbology’
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