New babies don’t come with instruction manuals, so pediatrician Harvey Karp set out to create one for bewildered new parents with a five-step plan for what to do when a baby cries. His book, “Happiest Baby on the Block,” was first published in 2002. It quickly became required reading for new parents, and has since […]
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Louis Malo: Builder left lasting legacy
Celebrating the Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul Editor’s note: This is the second of two parts. The first part ran Sunday, June 4. Catherine Malo has boxes of articles and photographs of her great-grandfather, Louis Malo. Lesser-known stories about him have been passed down from his seven children (six sons and a daughter). Grandchildren […]
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U.S. chess champ is No. 2 in the world
Opponents fear he maystill be getting better MINNETONKA, Minnesota — This ruthless man is very tranquil. He falls asleep easily around the world in seats unsuited for sleeping. He giggles a child’s treble giggle when you don’t expect. He asks charming novice questions about baseball. He can speak measuredly at length or speak not […]
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Misty Parker: Helping grow ‘a place people really love’
LEWISTON — In 2011, while working as a town planner in Wiscasset, Misty Parker organized a conference in the Bates Mill complex for the Maine Association of Planners. “That experience really stuck in my head because everyone was just so welcoming, so excited about the work that was happening in their city and just met […]
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Adam Lee: Serving and running
AUBURN — Adam Lee is running for something this fall. In the meantime, he’s just plain running, a 5K at a time. Lee, 37, an attorney at Trafton, Matzen, Belleau & Frenette, LLP, lives now in Auburn but grew up in Manchester, New Hampshire, and Houston, Texas. “My dad’s from Madawaska and most of his […]
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‘Wimpy Kid’ movie offers parents a road map
Obviously, I remember the moment when I officially became a mom. The thing is, as they were yanking a baby boy out of me, I was mildly distracted by the nurse on the phone who was calling for two units of blood to be brought up to the operating room that I had been rushed […]
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Face Time: Deb Webster and the ‘home school away from home’
NEWRY — Six years ago, Deb Webster decided to take the plunge into private education. After spending her early years as an educator teaching a variety of grade levels at various public schools throughout New England, she had two daughters, which prompted her to stop teaching and home-school them. As her children got older, Webster […]
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In verse: Maine places and people
Produced by Maine Poetry Central and Dennis Camire This week’s poem is by Carl Little of Somesville. He is the author of “Ocean Drinker: New and Selected Poems,” published by Deerbrook Editions. Pickerel Weed By Carl Little I know these, too, from the pond I skirted as a child, the green cake knives […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: Chicken envy
Full disclosure: We originally walked into the Tractor Supply Co. two weeks ago looking for a welcome mat. Instead we found a slew of 6-foot-tall metal roosters, their 6-inch-shorter girlfriends and child-size Batman gardening gloves and watering cans. So here we are. We’ve been to Tractor Supply before, when it first opened on Lisbon Street […]
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Magical earth — Stand back: Spring has sprung!
Birch catkins, crocuses, budding lilacs and myriad other spring showings are all around our house right now. It’s definitely spring. And if the plant world did not tell me, my goose flock surely would. They are so busy trying to make this year’s flock of goslings. Spring is truly busting out all over. Green shoots […]