Blue Devils calm first-game nerves in win over rival.
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Baking a living in Lisbon
LISBON — Tara Kieger has enough oven space to bake 24 sheets of cookies or 96 pies at once. She’s got busy Route 196 outside her door. She’s known since she was a little girl in the kitchen with her grandmother that she’s wanted to be a pastry chef. Now, she’s three months into going […]
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Rescue group takes on Auburn dump cats
AUBURN — When Community Cat Advocates trapped Chowder at Mid-Maine Waste Action Corp.’s transfer station, he was scared, skittish and completely blind. How he’d survived three years at the local dump was a mystery. There were other cats there, too: a fluffy black kitten whose mass of tangled fur disguised how life-threateningly skinny she was […]
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Farmington, Jay men indicted in connection to Walmart parking lot incidents
FARMINGTON — A local man and a Jay man were indicted Wednesday in separate cases involving incidents at the Walmart parking lot on Dec. 16, 2018. Joshua J. Norton, 39, of Farmington was indicted on four counts of reckless conduct with a dangerous weapon-motor vehicle, and one count each of domestic violence stalking, aggravated criminal mischief and […]
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Transgender woman enters U.S. Senate race to unseat Republican Susan Collins
SANGERVILLE — Hoping to become the first transgender member of Congress, independent Danielle VanHelsing said Thursday she is running for U.S. Senate in 2020. VanHelsing said the incumbent Republican, Susan Collins, is “a terrible senator” who doesn’t put the needs of Mainers first. VanHelsing, 36, said this is “a horrifying time” for the trans community. […]
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Insurance site ranks Maine drivers the worst; Massachusetts doesn't come close
LEWISTON — An insurance comparison website has ranked Mainers the absolute worst drivers in the country. In contrast, Massachusetts drivers — often stereotyped by Mainers as the most horrible drivers to ever exist — ranked right in the middle of the pack at no. 22. The annual ranking was released Thursday by Quotewizard.com. The site […]
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Thursday morning in a fog
Gisel Perry of Auburn walks along the Riverwalk in Thursday’s fog in Auburn. Perry said she was out enjoying how beautiful the fog made the city look while gathering material for her blog “The Maine Chica.” (Daryn Slover/Sun Journal)
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Briefs
BETHEL — There will be a community supper from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 30, at Bethel Alliance Church, 251 Walkers Mills Road, across from the Telstar parking lot. It is free and open to the public. For more information, call 207-824-2289. — FAYETTE — There will be a Keep Me Warm supper at 4:30 p.m. Saturday, […]
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A courageous welcome to strangers
“Good fences make good neighbors,” wrote Robert Frost many years ago — a line of poetry that became accepted wisdom for many years. But now there is the situation down along the Mexican border, with the current administration set on constructing an ultimate border wall in hopes of promoting America’s general good neighborliness. That attempt […]
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Cancer: Live by your rules and standards
CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DAY: Mischa Barton, 33; Tatyana Ali, 40; Ed Helms, 45; Neil Diamond, 78. Happy Birthday: Slow down and stick to what’s most important to you. If you scatter your energy, you will end up running in circles. Look at your personal and professional relationships and consider who you have time for. […]