ALFRED — A commission charged with recommending a location for a proposed new York County Courthouse will later this month tour seven possible sites with the hope of coming up with a suggested site by November. The commission, which is comprised of local legislators, county officials, judges, attorneys and others, met at York County Courthouse […]
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Skillet toss isn’t for lightweights
By LIZ GOTTHELF Staff Writer ACTON — Cast iron skillets are great to use to fry up some eggs and bacon, but, as numerous women demonstrated Saturday at the Acton Fair fifth annual Women’s Skillet Throw, they are also a lot of fun to throw. The rules were simple: throws must be underhanded, standing beyond […]
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Veteran Build makes veteran, family homeowners
KENNEBUNKPORT — Owning a home is part of the American dream, and thanks to the Habitat for Humanity’s Veteran Build program, the Holbrook family is realizing that dream. The family – Waylon and Nicole, and their two sons, Liam and Xander, were given the keys to their new home Saturday at a dedication ceremony that […]
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Join conversation on hunger awareness
On Sept. 8, Good Shepherd Food Bank is asking supporters to wear orange, the color of hunger awareness, and to post on social media to join a national effort to help raise awareness hunger. “We encourage people to share what they couldn’t do without adequate nutrition by writing on an empty plate, “On an empty […]
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Charles Lawton: Be it science or the socioeconomic, one size never fits all
So let’s confront the fear that binds us so tightly to so many clear, simple and wrong ideas.
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Briefly
Wells Chili-Fest starts Saturday 16th Annual Chili-Fest will be at the Wells Junior High Campus, put on by the Wells Chamber of Commerce from 11 a.m. – 3 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 27. The winner of this event will represent the Maine in the World Championship in Reno, Nevada. The cook-off will feature three categories: Red […]
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An American in Quebec:
A young, French-Canadian nurse met an American doctor in her native Quebec, they fell in love, started a family in a home they made themselves south in the U.S., and the rest, as they say, is sweet history. In their budding life together, they raised six Franco- American kiddos, and tucked among the middle was […]
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Marriage is a series of phrases for future reference
I don’t know what was in the air last weekend, but for some reason, food mishaps ran rampant in our household. First, there was the fridge that was left slightly open all night long, which meant the light was on all night long. In the morn- ing when I walked into the kitchen, the brand-new, […]
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Time flies, relatively speaking
You know, I never quite understood why Einstein’s Theory of Relativity, the way time’s passing depends on one’s perspective, would be so unbelievable. Granted, his mathematical proof is confusing, but don’t you know the feeling of looking at the clock and being shocked that it’s moving so slowly? Or the opposite experience, when it seems […]