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PublishedNovember 27, 2020
Letters from parents reflect grim statistics: ‘It’s tough out there’
More than 43,000 Mainers are jobless this holiday season.
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PublishedNovember 26, 2020
On this date in Maine history: Nov. 26
Nov. 26, 1861: Humorist Artemus Ward (1834-1867) makes his debut as what today would be called a stand-up comedian, in New London, Connecticut. Ward, whose real name is Charles Farrar Browne, was born in Waterford, Maine, and used Yankee speech mannerisms and deliberately misspelled words in his columns published under the “Artemus Ward” pen name […]
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PublishedNovember 25, 2020
On this date in Maine history: Nov. 25
Nov. 25, 1997: For the first time, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission orders the dismantling of a working hydroelectric facility – in this case, the Edwards Dam in Augusta – over the objection of its owner. FERC denies the Edwards Manufacturing Co.’s application for a renewal of its license to operate the dam. The commissioners […]
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PublishedNovember 24, 2020
On this date in Maine history: Nov. 24
Nov. 24, 1916: Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim, a native of the Piscataquis County town of Sangerville and the inventor of the machine gun, dies at 76 in London while the armies of World War I, underway just across the English Channel, are making prolific use of his weapon on the battlefield. Maxim’s innovation was making […]
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PublishedNovember 23, 2020
On this date in Maine history: Nov. 23
Nov. 23, 2018: The Portland Press Herald reports that although nearly 50,200 people used the direct high-speed ferry service between Portland and Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, during the year – the busiest season ever – the ferry probably will not be returning. Bay Ferries, the vessel’s operator, plans to move its service to Bar Harbor. The […]
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PublishedNovember 22, 2020
On this date in Maine history: Nov. 22
Nov. 22, 1963: President John F. Kennedy, who gave a foreign policy speech at the University of Maine only a month earlier, is assassinated in Dallas, Texas. Kennedy originally is buried in a 30-by-20-foot plot surrounded by a white picket fence at Arlington National Cemetery. About 16 million people visit it during the first three […]
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PublishedNovember 21, 2020
On this date in Maine history: Nov. 21
Nov. 21, 1921: The first edition of the Portland Press Herald is published. It is a merger of the former Portland Herald and the Portland Daily Press, which was founded in 1862. Guy Gannett, an Augusta businessman, after being approached by owners of several papers in a cutthroat environment of declining revenue, eventually bought the […]
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PublishedNovember 20, 2020
On this date in Maine history: Nov. 20
Nov. 20, 1652: Stamping out a 3-year-old effort to form an independent English province of Maine, Massachusetts Bay Colony authorities convince 41 residents of Kittery to submit unconditionally to Massachusetts. A few days later, they exact a similar pledge of loyalty from residents of nearby Agamenticus – now the town of York. In doing so, […]
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PublishedNovember 19, 2020
Warehouse buzzes as Toy Fund prepares to help children
Volunteers are bracing for a flood of requests for help from families struggling through the pandemic and hoping to preserve some normalcy for their children during the holidays.
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PublishedNovember 19, 2020
On this date in Maine history: Nov. 19
Nov. 19, 1819: Former President Thomas Jefferson writes a letter to William King, a leading Maine statehood advocate and future Maine governor, thanking him for sending Jefferson a draft of the proposed Maine Constitution, being prepared in conjunction with Maine’s anticipated admission to statehood in 1820. While praising most of the document, Jefferson faults its […]
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