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Concert review: Review: ‘Night Train to Perugia’ on track to be the surreal thing

If there is such a thing as surrealist music, Michael Gandolphi’s “Night Train to Perugia” would be the prime example. As played Tuesday night at Merrill Auditorium by the Portland Symphony Orchestra under Robert Moody, it proved that a composition need not be atonal to be avant garde. Gandolpfi’s paean to quantum physics boasts Einstein’s […]

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THE TOWN: AT A GLANCE

Here’s a snapshot of the town of Madawaska gleaned from U.S. Census surveys, the Maine Department of Education and Maine Secretary of State. POPULATION: 4,035 MEDIAN AGE: 50.4 (Statewide: 42.8) MEDIAN HOUSEHOLD INCOME: $34,194 (Statewide: $48,219) • 15.6 percent of households earn more than $75,000. (Statewide: 28.7 percent) PER CAPITA INCOME: $20,601 (Statewide: $26,464) CHILDREN […]

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ABOUT THE CANDIDATE

Mike Michaud, 59, was raised in Medway, about 60 miles north of Bangor. The second oldest of six children, he grew up in a Catholic, Franco-American family. Michaud studied college preparatory classes at Schenk High School in East Millinocket. Although he dreamed of becoming a state trooper, Michaud went to work in the Great Northern […]