Spanning 3,000 miles along the entire East Coast, the Greenway is a more urbanized version of the Appalachian Trail. And it goes right through central Maine.
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In verse: Maine places and people
Produced by Dennis Camire This week’s poem is by Jenny Doughty of Portland. A Maine litany By Jenny Doughty Praise tree-clad islands out in Casco Bay that look like single pendant emeralds strewn carelessly across a silver tray. Praise lichened boulders shouldering the shore, and sea-scoured pebbles ready to the hand to skim the waves. […]
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Query: Were you a paperboy or papergirl as a kid?
We want to hear all about your experiences of being a paperboy or papergirl for a story.
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Eugenia Last, Libra: Learn something new; make positive lifestyle change
CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DAY: Helena Bonham Carter, 53; Lenny Kravitz, 55; Pam Grier, 70; Stevie Nicks, 71. Happy Birthday: Look at your needs, and be good to yourself. Open up about the way you feel and what you want to happen. Find the best way to move forward, and put what you need in […]
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Dear Abby: Woman in love longs to hear three little words from beau
DEAR ABBY: I have been dating a wonderful man for a little more than two years. We are both divorced and have children. Mine are 20 and 15; his are 12 and 10. We are very close, all of our kids get along, all the exes get along, etc. I love him. Despite thinking I’d […]
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Christopher Elliott, Travel Navigator: A look ahead at summer travel
Christopher Elliott Special to The Washington Post What can you expect from this year’s summer travel season? Fewer travelers, for one. MMGY Global, a travel and hospitality marketing and research company, projects a significant slowdown in overall leisure travel this year. The decrease could affect the summer season, which runs from Memorial Day to Labor […]
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Liz Alterman: Trip to the grocery store changed my relationship with my teenagers
Liz Alterman Special to The Washington Post “We’re out of sandwich bags. Again!” my 17-year-old huffed with the amount of exasperation one might reserve for an issue far more troubling than swaddling ham and cheese on wheat bread inside foil or plastic wrap. “We don’t have any good snacks either,” his 13-year-old brother added. He […]
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Caron — Rinko
Ronald and Joan Caron of Sabattus announce the engagement of their daughter, Jennifer Caron, to Adam Rinko, son of Walter and Consiglia Rinko of Lisbon Falls. The future bride is a 2013 graduate of the University of Maine at Farmington and currently teaches fifth grade at Carrie Ricker School in Litchfield. The future bridegroom attended […]
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PHOTO: Mystery Photo for May 26, 2019
Guess correctly where this is and be entered into a drawing for a $20 Hannaford gift card.
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In verse: Maine places and people
Produced by Dennis Camire This week’s poem is by Ed Reilly of Westbrook. OUR MEETING By Ed Reilly Tall, spindly legs crossed the street, gliding, evanescent, almost a phantom, the legs, though, sufficient to identify this silent being as deer. Its brown body glowed like fog under a street light, gray, spectral, like a creature […]