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    May 1, 2010

    Feature ObituaryYvonne Mitchell, 86, shared baked goods, helped at food pantry

    SACO – Yvonne Mitchell was known for her baking. Whether it was her strawberry rhubarb pie, her whoopie pie cake or her banana bread, everyone enjoyed it. “When she’d go shopping, she’d deliver banana bread to all the girls in the deli at Shaw’s,” said her granddaughter Billie-Jean Steere. Her specialty was the whoopie pie […]

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    May 1, 2010

    Global mortality rate for adults falls

    A new study cites AIDS, the fall of the Soviet Union and smoking as the forces driving the decline.

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    May 1, 2010

    Spending up sharply but jobs still lag

    A third straight quarterly gain shows the country is healing from the deepest recession since the 1930s.

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    May 1, 2010

    Goldman Sachs leads market’s slump

    The Dow loses 1.8 percent in five days, ending its longest rally since 2004.

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    May 1, 2010

    People & Entertainment

    Oprah: Declare your car a ‘No Phone Zone’ WASHINGTON – Oprah Winfrey wants America’s drivers to declare their cars “No Phone Zones.” “It’s like Russian roulette every time you pick up your phone in the car,” Winfrey told her viewers from Chicago on Friday. She dedicated her TV show to urging people to sign pledges […]

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    May 1, 2010

    Catholic schools welcome refugees from Haitian quake

    About 120 children will boost enrollment in the Boston area this fall.

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    May 1, 2010

    Reflections: Our spiritual progress requires consistency

    Do you ever hear the same message again and again? Do you ever sense it’s time to listen? A yoga instructor told me last night that my crazy monkey mind will never calm if I show up at yoga class to meditate only when I feel like it. A fitness trainer mentioned yesterday that I […]

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    May 1, 2010

    Worship SpotlightLighthouse Church of the Nazarene, Wells

    ADDRESS: 544 Post Road DENOMINATION/AFFILIATION: Protestant HISTORY: The Lighthouse Church of the Nazarene began in 1957, when Nelson and Lester Kimball started a small fellowship of believers that met in a schoolhouse in Moody. These two young lay pastors had a dream for this new congregation. They took a step of faith and donated land […]

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    May 1, 2010

    Religion Calendar

    Today Rummage sale, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Westbrook-Warren Congregational Church, 810 Main St., Westbrook. Rummage and perennial sale, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Cressey Road United Methodist Church, off Route 25, Gorham. Fifty-cent clothing sale, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., St. George’s Episcopal Church, Main and Emerson streets, Sanford. Yard, rummage and bake sale, […]