DEAR ABBY: The 14-year-old son of a friend of mine is having self-esteem issues and apparently is going through a very rough patch. Our family likes to participate in charity races. My boy, 13, is a talented athlete who, according to my friend, is an “overachiever.” My friend signed her family up for the same […]
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USM to host screening of hemp documentary
PORTLAND — Healing Harbors, in partnership with area businesses, is hosting a screening of “The Hemp Road Trip,” a powerful documentary that chronicles Rick Trojan’s multi-year, 48-state campaign to educate and advocate for the end of a federal prohibition of cannabis across the United States. The film screening takes place at 7 p.m. Monday, Nov. […]
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Another Roselle memory; more unwanted call tips
DEAR SUN SPOTS: The Oct. 28 article about Roselle Coury and WCOU really started something, as Roselle’s fans and friends, like me, are poking our heads out of the woodwork. A mutual friend who worked with Roselle at the same time I did sent me the article along with a copy of the Nov. 2 […]
Posted inAdvertiser Democrat, Encore, Livermore Falls Advertiser, sj-web, The Bethel Citizen
Tuba ensemble to perform in West Paris
The tuba ensemble Low Commotion will present a concert at 2 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 2, at the First Universalist Church of West Paris. Low Commotion, which was formed in 2013, is an ensemble of euphoniums (tenor tubas) and full-sized tubas. The group performs several concerts each year at senior living centers, veterans homes, churches and libraries. […]
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Will history repeat itself in Florida election?
MIAMI — Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Florida, had the best line when it comes to the latest Florida election in which contests for governor and the U.S. Senate are still undecided. Rubio tweeted: “Bay County was hit by a Cat 4 Hurricane just 4 weeks ago, yet managed to count votes and submit timely results. Yet […]
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Whole universes are dying while we wait
Maybe this is futile. After all, there’s little point in talking back to a deranged person, especially if he is dead. Both descriptions fit the man who took his own life after opening fire in a bar in Thousand Oaks, California, last week, killing 12 people, among them Ventura County Sheriff’s Sgt. Ron Helus, the […]
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Sparetime results
Mamas & Papas Men: Handicap Series — 924 Todd Morneau, 736 Mike Dumais, 704 Jim Morin; Scratch Series — 713 Mike Thibault, 625 Bob Violette, 568 Arthur Pearl III; Handicap Game — 306 Justin Brawn, 265 Paul Marichal, 254 Brandon Alexander; Scratch Game — 237 Phil Doucette, 235 Brandon Mullen, 218 Philip Provencher; Women: Handicap […]
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Blame Madison, Hamilton
I am amazed that, some two years after the last presidential election, some people still claim that Hillary Clinton should be president instead of Donald Trump, based on the popular vote alone, which totally disregards U.S.history and the Constitution. I am also reminded of an old quote by George Santayana — “Those who ignore history […]
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CLT to present 'Holiday Spectacular!'
AUBURN — The L-A Community Little Theatre will celebrate the holiday season with songs, stories and laughs when it presents “Holiday Spectacular!” on Dec. 7 and 8. Director Cody Watson says that the concept of the show is all about Christmas memories, and the many emotions they bring. “A story will be told between each […]
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UMF's next New Commons Project looks at Jane Austen novel
FARMINGTON — “Persuasion,” Jane Austen’s last novel, is the next featured selection of the New Commons Project of the University of Maine at Farmington. “Persuasion” is the story of Anne Elliot, the quiet, sensitive and intelligent second daughter of an aristocratic father whose vanity has driven the family into debt. The last novel fully completed […]