On Tuesday mornings from 10 a.m to noon at the Rumford Public Library, a life-long educator with a very impressive resume can be found living out her passions through teaching others. In a program called “Science for Seniors,” Anne Morin encourages young-at-heart seniors to get out of their homes, meet new people, make new friends […]
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Majorly cool
‘Adventure therapy,’ ‘fermentation science’ and ‘social media activism’ are just some of the untraditional courses at Maine colleges. Dangling off a cliff with your significant other is a great time to start listening without judgment and working out what needs to be worked out because, hey, you’re dangling off a cliff. Things can get worse. […]
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Veggies ‘lite’ at the Firehouse Grille
Friday night, Jan. 27, Donnie Hebert and Ray Tardiff from the popular local classic rock band The Veggies, will be perform as a two-piece act at The Fire House Grille, 47 Broad St., Auburn, from 8 to 11 p.m. There is no cover charge.
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Somerville, Mass. celebrating 100 years of Fluff
‘It stuck to the roof of my mouth,” said Luca Duclos-Orsello. He’s talking about when he was 11 years old and his mother, Elizabeth, smushed creamy Marshmallow Fluff and gooey peanut butter into his mouth, and he licked her fingers clean. He was laughing so hard he couldn’t talk, and the goo was so thick […]
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Why shorter days call for a dose of Vitamin D
It is officially winter in our household because I have pulled out the vitamin D supplements. My daughter was too young last winter to remember that she added a vitamin to her morning routine, but my boys knew what it signaled.Instead of gobbling down the vitamins without query as they did last winter, my boys […]
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With chickpeas around, who needs chickens?
Anything chicken can do, chickpeas can do better. At least I think so, but I am admittedly biased. I don’t know if it’s just the possibility for wordplay, but I am drawn to every recipe I have ever seen that uses the beans in place of the poultry in a classic, or at least well-known, […]
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A winter warmer that’s creamy, without the cream
If there’s a walking, talking advertisement for the power of food to provide energy, it’s got to be Tess Masters. Anyone who has met her, seen her or read her work knows that the actor, cook and author behind the popular Blender Girl blog (and cookbook of the same name) is a whirlwind of positivity, […]
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Chickens ‘changed the world.’ So why do we ignore them?
More than 2,000 years ago, the inhabitants of a settlement in what is now eastern England did something that might seem totally unremarkable: They put a chicken in a pot. What’s notable is that they did not cook or eat the chicken. Archaeologists who later unearthed the site in Lincolnshire County found the chicken’s skeleton […]
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Mystery Photo for January 22
There were nearly 100 entries for last week’s mystery photo with only one incorrect entry. In a random drawing of the correct responses, Ethyl Potvin of Mechanic Falls was chosen as the winner. In talking with her, she said “I used to go there all the time, back in the day, so I knew when […]
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#@!%#! self improvement
Writer Mark LaFlamme discovers that rounding out his character can be highly overrated. I will admit that for about 10 minutes, I really enjoyed crochet. Creating a chain? No problem. Get some yarn around your hook, twist and turn until you can pull it through the little hole thing? Easy peasy. I might grow to […]