Opening reception set for Sept. 23, exhibit on view through Oct. 28.
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Posted inEncore, Things to Do
Annual Maine Playwrights Festival now open for submissions
PORTLAND — Acorn Productions, producers of the annual Maine Playwrights Festival, recently announced that they have begun accepting scripts for this year’s 20th edition of the state’s long-running incubator for new plays by local playwrights. Anybody living in Maine is eligible to submit a new play between eight and 30 minutes in length for consideration […]
Posted inDear Abby
Prison sentence complicates longtime friendship
DEAR ABBY: I have a former high school classmate who, over the years, I’ve gotten pretty close to. He has been there for me when I was at my lowest, and I have been there for him as well. He lives several hours away, but we talked almost daily in addition to being on social […]
Posted inEncore
Looking Back on Sept. 21
100 Years Ago: 1921 Four quarts of fine ripe raspberries were picked today in the garden of Antoine Pontbriand, 72 Ninth Street, Auburn, and as many more green ones remain to ripen. They are the St. Regis species and are a second crop. The bushes were a new growth this year, and are not the ever-bearing kind. 50 […]
Posted inDr. Roach
Ideal living will includes detailed instructions for care
DEAR DR. ROACH: At what point in COVID-19 does a person’s do not resuscitate order become an issue? When does treatment become an “exceptional or extraordinary” effort? It would seem that organ transplants, if not coma/prolonged artificial ventilation would qualify. I have never seen anything on this issue. — R.S. ANSWER: A do not resuscitate […]
Posted inSun Spots
Planters Peanuts store recalled at downtown Lewiston intersection
DEAR SUN SPOTS: I was wondering when the Planters Peanuts store in Lewiston closed. It was at Lisbon and Main streets in the 1950s and 1960s. They had someone dressed up as Mr. Peanut walking around on the sidewalk to get people to go in and visit the store, where they had fresh-roasted peanuts. If […]
Posted inDr. Roach
Some hospitals do mandate COVID-19 vaccination for employees
DEAR DR. ROACH: Why aren’t the hospitals nationwide mandating all personnel be COVID vaccinated? I am getting conflicting information. Don’t you think the first-line people treating the ill, whether it is to check a patient in to the hospital or a nurse, should have their vaccine in order to work in the hospital? — K.W. […]
Posted inDr. Roach
Persistent aftereffects of COVID affect energy, senses and more
DEAR DR. ROACH: Could you address problems that may or may not be aftereffects of COVID-19? The problems seem to be common among people who have had COVID-19, but not acknowledged by all medical professionals. — A.C.S. ANSWER: Although the likelihood of dying from COVID-19 is “only” about 1.8% — meaning 938,000 deaths in the […]