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PublishedApril 27, 2020
On this date in Maine history: April 27, narrated by Keith Carson
April 27, 1973: A storm system stalls over the Saint John River Valley, unleashing the worst flood ever recorded there. The flood causes severe damage in northern Maine and a crisis in next-door New Brunswick, where 1,450 people are evacuated. In and around the provincial capital, Fredericton, water pervades older neighborhoods and spills into the […]
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PublishedApril 27, 2020
Why can’t I reach unemployment? When can I get my aching knee replaced?
Another question readers are asking: What’s up with my federal check?
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PublishedApril 26, 2020
On this date in Maine history: April 26, narrated by Victoria Hugo-Vidal
April 26, 1879: Madame Nordica (1857-1914) takes nine curtain calls after a stunningly successful performance in Verdi’s “La Traviata” at Brescia, Italy, during the opening phase of her long singing career. The singer, who spent the first eight years of her life in Farmington, Maine, as Lillian Norton, changed her name to make it more […]
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PublishedApril 25, 2020
On this date in Maine history: April 25, narrated by James Kennerley
April 25, 1906: Portland-born John Knowles Paine, one of the first Americans to achieve recognition for large-scale orchestral music, dies at 67 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Paine’s father owned a music store, led a Portland band and published music. The son also drew inspiration from Hermann Kotzschmar (1829-1908), a German musician, conductor and composer who settled […]
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PublishedApril 24, 2020
On this date in Maine history: April 24, narrated by Alain Nahimana
April 24, 1816: Four hundred to 500 people show up at the courthouse in Augusta in response to an invitation to attend a convention, moderated by Judge Daniel Cony (1752-1842), an Augusta physician and Revolutionary War veteran, about a proposal to separate Maine from Massachusetts. The crowd, composed of residents of Kennebec, Lincoln and Somerset […]
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PublishedApril 23, 2020
Woman pleads guilty to murder of 83-year-old in Owls Head
Sarah Richards, 38, of South Thomaston admits that she beat and strangled Helen Carver in February 2019.
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PublishedApril 23, 2020
On this date in Maine history: April 23, narrated by Bill Green
April 23, 1945: Two weeks before the German surrender in World War II, the USS Eagle PE-56, a Navy patrol vessel taking part in a bomber training exercise 5 miles off the coast of Cape Elizabeth, explodes and sinks. The incident kills 54 of the Eagle’s 67 crew members. A passing Navy vessel picks up […]
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PublishedApril 22, 2020
On this date in Maine history: April 22, narrated by Maulian Dana
April 22, 1922: WMB, a radio station owned by the Auburn Electrical Co., makes Maine’s first radio broadcast by transmitting an Arbor Day speech. The station, one of only 24 government-licensed stations in the nation, goes off the air after a few years. April 22, 1976: A bomb explodes at the Suffolk County Courthouse in […]
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PublishedApril 21, 2020
On this date in Maine history: April 21, accompanied by David Mallett
April 21, 1951: Maine singer-songwriter David Mallett, who has released more than a dozen albums, is born in the Piscataquis County town of Sebec. One of his early compositions, “Garden Song,” is recorded by John Denver, Pete Seeger, Peter, Paul and Mary, and many other acts. Mallett begins performing at the age of 11 in […]
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PublishedApril 20, 2020
On this date in Maine history: April 20, narrated by Bob Greene
April 20, 1775: Sixty militiamen from the town of York begin marching to Massachusetts to confront the British after receiving news about the opening battles of the Revolutionary War at Lexington and Concord. Other groups of fighters from Biddeford, Scarborough and Falmouth soon follow them, but all are turned back because they no longer are […]
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