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Columns

Nick Mason, Metallica go live

By Tom Von Malder - Sep 25
Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets: Live at The Roundhouse (Legacy, Blu-ray, NR, 115 min.). Nick Mason, of course, was the drummer in Pink Floyd, ...
Required reading

By Daniel Dunkle - Sep 25
Last time we were talking about “Oliver Twist,” which I thought was worth the read, but also a bit of a slog. I hear people say things like, “I'll ...
Drought has direct impact on gardeners

By Tom Seymour - Sep 24
Midcoast Maine is in the throes of a prolonged drought, the effects of which have greatly impacted our crops. What amazes me is how quickly ...
Elotes (Mexican street corn)

By Wendy Andresen - Sep 24
Fresh ears of sweet corn are still available at the farmers' market and are pretty hard to beat when eaten with just butter and salt. But don't ...
The little jerk that could

By Emma Testerman - Sep 24
Airports always have made my parents on edge, but it didn't help that their two most ill-behaved children were causing mischief as we waited for ...
Want change? Send real leaders to Congress

By Pearl Benjamin - Sep 24
We're less than two months away from the November election, and things are heating up. While political races intensify, California is ablaze with ...
The Dreaded Bath

By Benny Huckleberry as ... - Sep 24
If you read the headline of this column, I think you'll know where I'm going with this. I absolutely dread baths! What purpose do they serve? I'm ...
The ride to Jackman

By Sarah E. Reynolds - Sep 24
We just got back from what is becoming an annual late summer or fall trip to Moosehead Lake for ATV riding and relaxing. We stayed in the same ...
Historical Photo - laying out Harden Avenue

Sep 24
Workers lay out Harden Avenue, Camden, through the field behind Megunticook Avenue, c. 1905.
Torn down for a parking lot

By David Grima - Sep 24
Is the Park Street Grill building at the corner of Park Drive and (South) Main really going to be torn down to make way for a parking lot, or is ...
A Mainer on ice

By Charles H. Lagerbom - Sep 24
Herbert Wood Leach hailed from Penobscot, Maine. Born in 1858 into a farming family in Down East Maine, he decided to forego the family agriculture...
Camden Herald letters to the editor Sept. 24

Sep 24
Senator Miramant listens I have been associated with Dave Miramant both personally and professionally for over 15 years. Dave worked part-time for ...
Courier-Gazette Letters to the Editor Sept. 24

Sep 23
Re: Inna's gentrification letter Dear Inna, I respectfully disagree with many of your points. Mechanic Street was not targeted for re-evaluation, ...
September 23 is the birthday of Neptune. My favorite planet.

Sep 23
Neptune was discovered September 23, 1896 that's 174 years ago. At that time they thought it was the furthest planet out from the Earth in our ...
Maine’s next generation of Republican women

By Sam Patten - Sep 23
It was an early 1996 evening in Kazakhstan, when a friend in then-Gov. Angus King's office forwarded me a wire report that Bill Cohen was retiring ...
A mulligan for Collins?

By Sam Patten - Sep 21
It will be a busy week for the White House counsel's office, and for everyone else recruited to push a nominee onto the country's highest court ...
Illuminating ‘Pitch Black’

By Tom Von Malder - Sep 20
Pitch Black (2000, Arrow Video, 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray, R/NR, 108/111 min.). Before the “Fast and the Furious” franchise, “Pitch Black” was the ...
Let's Twist again

By Daniel Dunkle - Sep 18
Earlier this year, I read “The Picture of Dorian Gray” by Oscar Wilde and loved it. Here was a book about a young man in Victorian England who ...
Tricky business, politics

By David Grima - Sep 17
I heard from a teacher in a community far to the north the other day, that class sizes at her elementary school increased noticeably, because so ...
The continuing catastrophe

By Shlomit Auciello - Sep 17
I spent most of Sept. 11, 2001 at my computer, writing a column on deadline. The radio in the living room was on MPBN and my mom, who was visiting ...

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