New cafe offers ‘completely-from-scratch’ breakfast and lunch Real estate, social work, therapeutic recreation and installing grass turf around the Northeast are all jobs Kristi Huard Norcross has had. In other words, no background in running a cafe. “I have no restaurant experience, except for waitressing when I was younger,” said Norcross. But clearly Norcross is […]
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Mt. Blue students, staff collect 32K pounds of food
FARMINGTON — Mt. Blue High School students and staff took “a bite out of hunger” when they collected the equivalent of 32,740 pounds of food to help those in need. The food went to the Good Shepherd Food Bank in Auburn, which distributes it to local food pantries around the state to help address food […]
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Eats: Taking sides — squash or sweet potato? Or both!
We sat across the table from one another, snickering with our mouths full. My partner in crime was a 90-year-old woman who had hired me to cook Thanksgiving dinner for her family. What had started out as an innocent sampling of our efforts had turned into the two of us making a rather substantial dent […]
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Forage Market to open second location in Portland in spring
LEWISTON — Forage Market in Lewiston is opening a new location in Portland at 123 Washington Ave., the same building complex that houses an oyster bar and a craft distillery. The market is actually a bakery and cafe that makes breakfast and lunch sandwiches to order, pastries, soups and salads. The staff bakes a variety […]
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United Way has grant money available
LEWISTON — United Way of Androscoggin County has announced that it has been selected to administer a grant from the Emergency Food and Shelter National Board Program to aid in the local fight against homelessness and hunger. The grant will be administered by a local board comprised of area nonprofit leaders, local municipalities and members […]
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Chocolate Lab's nose detects abnormal blood sugar
Slash the chocolate Lab jumped into Kate Rondelli’s bed in the middle of the night Tuesday, licking her face to wake her up. There was trouble. The dog led her to her son’s room, where Rondelli tested her 4-year-old’s blood sugar levels: Over 400 milligrams per deciliter, more than twice the maximum range desirable for […]
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The tomato is legally a vegetable
But that doesn’t mean it’s not a fruit It’s a question used to trick schoolkids the nation over: Is the tomato actually a fruit or vegetable? Botanically, it’s a fruit. But legally, it’s not. And the origins of that discrepancy lie in a 19th-century Supreme Court case so obscure, many tomato experts aren’t even aware […]
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'True' cinnamon REALLY different?
Eating tree bark is often the punchline of some bad joke about a healthful diet. But we do it — collectively, to the tune of tens of millions of pounds a year. Odds are, you have some right in your pantry. It is cinnamon, of course — the best thing to come from tree bark […]
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Poached pears get a little boozy kick for fall
Tea makes a lovely poaching liquid for fresh or dried fruit. It provides a potpourri of flavor options, including the warm, aromatic spiciness of chai, the heady floral essence of jasmine and the smoky intensity of Lapsang souchong, to name a few. The tannic acidity of tea – be it black, white or green – […]
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School spirit helps raise money at Mt. Blue
The phrase, “We believe that we will win,” along with drums and other instruments echoed through the halls of Mt. Blue High School on Friday morning as students and staff showed their spirit in the School Spirit Challenge sponsored by WGME Channel 13 to raise money and food for the Good Shepherd Food Bank in […]