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PublishedJuly 1, 2012
Ex-Etiquette: ‘Bonus’ meant to be an earned compliment
Q: I have been divorced from my husband of 22 years for four years now. At the time of our divorce our kids were 19 and 21. He remarried and now his wife just expects our grown kids to fall head over heels in love with her. She refers to them as her children when […]
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PublishedJuly 1, 2012
Maine Gardener: Wet and warm weather brings uncommon pests, plus the usual suspects
The wet spring and warm winter have resulted in a lot more pests attacking gardens across Maine, James Dill, a pest management specialist with the University of Maine Cooperative Extension in Orono, said last week. Some of the pests are ones we deal with every year — slugs, ticks, aphids, cutworms and the like — […]
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PublishedJuly 1, 2012
Cool and the gang
Want to keep the kids chill this summer? Try some hot new water toys.
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PublishedJuly 1, 2012
Motherlode: Gadgets and guests: How to draw the line
“Yesterday,” R. wrote, “my 6-year-old child and the rest of our family visited another family with a child (also 6) who spent the whole time on an iPod Touch.” That would make me crazy — and not one reader disagreed with that. “Inexcusable.” “I would find it extremely rude of the parent not to take […]
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PublishedJuly 1, 2012
Photo: King of claws
Ben Floyd of Windham celebrates his victory in the lobster-eating competition Saturday at the fourth annual Portland LobsterFest. Floyd shucked and gobbled up 11 of the boiled crustaceans in the contest, for which Sen. Olympia Snowe, far left, served as a judge. John Patriquin/Staff Photographer
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PublishedJuly 1, 2012
No dead heat in Felix victory
Allyson Felix wins the 200 in a personal best. Meanwhile, Ellsworth High graduate Ben Shorey finishes seventh in the 20-kilometer racewalk.
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PublishedJuly 1, 2012
Phelps posts second win over Lochte
OMAHA, Neb. — Michael Phelps 2, Ryan Lochte 1. In their most stirring duel of the U.S. Olympic trials, Phelps and Lochte went stroke for stroke in the 200-meter individual medley Saturday night, the world’s two greatest swimmers never more than inches apart. But Phelps led at every turn, and he really turned it on […]
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