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PublishedApril 10, 2020
On this date in Maine history: April 10, with a message from Travis Mills
April 10, 1836: The matron in a New York City brothel discovers about 3 a.m. that somebody has killed Helen Jewett, a 22-year-old prostitute from Maine, and has set Jewett’s bed on fire, partially charring her body. One of Jewett’s regular clients, Richard P. Robinson, later is arrested, tried and acquitted amid a storm of […]
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PublishedApril 9, 2020
On this date in Maine history April 9: narrated by Amy Calder
April 9, 1991: Prolific author Louise Dickinson Rich, who often wrote about Maine, dies at 87 in Bridgewater, Massachusetts. Rich, a Massachusetts native who worked as a teacher, met Ralph Rich, an engineer, on a canoeing trip in the Rangeley area in 1933. They married, fled from their workaday world to Maine and lived in […]
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PublishedApril 8, 2020
State asks Mainers to stop tossing gloves on the ground after use
The improper disposal of gloves is a growing litter problem and a biohazard concern around the country.
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PublishedApril 8, 2020
On this date in Maine history: April 8, narrated by Kate Snyder
April 8, 1851: Neal Dow (1804-1897) is elected mayor of Portland. He quickly uses his influence in that position to lobby successfully for passage later that year of a state law generally banning the purchase and consumption of alcoholic beverages, earning Dow the nickname “the Napoleon of Temperance.” The law, which becomes known nationally as […]
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PublishedApril 7, 2020
On this date in Maine history: April 7, narrated by Colin Woodard
April 7, 2010: Maine’s Legislature issues a statement of apology for state officials’ forcible eviction a century earlier of a largely interracial group of residents from Malaga Island, in Casco Bay. The island lies off Phippsburg near the mouth of the New Meadows River. A racially mixed community of squatter fishermen’s families lived there. Newspaper […]
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PublishedApril 6, 2020
On this date in Maine history: April 6
April 6, 1807: Advocates of the District of Maine’s separation from Massachusetts suffer their worst referendum defeat – 9,404 to 3,370. Of the district’s 150 towns, most voters in 100 of them oppose separation. The momentum for Maine statehood is at a low ebb, but that will change during and after the War of 1812. […]
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PublishedApril 5, 2020
On this date in Maine history: April 5
April 5, 1974: Horror writer Stephen King’s novel “Carrie” is published. It is King’s fourth novel but the first to appear in print. The book and a subsequent movie of the same name make King world-famous. King was born in Portland and raised mostly in Durham, although he also spent part of his childhood in […]
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PublishedApril 4, 2020
On this date in Maine history: April 4
April 4, 1802: Dorothea Dix, who becomes renowned nationwide as a reformer of treatment of the mentally ill and champion of their rights, is born in Hampden. Dix teaches Sunday school lessons in the Cambridge House of Corrections in Massachusetts and witnesses the horrific conditions that people living in such places endure. From 1841 to […]
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PublishedApril 3, 2020
More vandalism may be connected to tensions about out-of-staters on Vinalhaven
The Knox County Sheriff’s Office is investigating as police warn against harassment of people from out-of-state.
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PublishedApril 3, 2020
On this date in Maine history: April 3
April 3, 1993: The University of Maine men’s hockey team, under the leadership of coach Shawn Walsh, wins the NCAA Division I men’s hockey championship in Milwaukee, playing against Lake Superior State University. It is the team’s first national title. Maine is down 4-2 after two periods, but the team’s all-time leading scorer, Jim Montgomery, […]
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