NEW YORK — Most cars are just that: Four tires and an engine. And then there’s Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, the flying version born of Ian Fleming’s imagination and the namesake of the James Bond creator’s only book for children. That’s a big driver’s seat to slide into, especially when you add Dick Van Dyke in […]
2012
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Shopping for baseball gear: enlightening
In a perfect world, I would not be allowed to take my kids shopping for baseball gear. In a perfect world, their dad would do it. Dustin is much better suited for the task, because, first, he is less likely to be sucked into clever marketing ploys, such as “ baseball checklists” hanging from the […]
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Homesteading skills added to Garden Day offerings
LEWISTON — The University of Maine Cooperative Extension is once again sponsoring Maine Garden Day on April 14 at Lewiston High School. Registration is $50, which includes breakfast and lunch, a trade show and an opportunity to take up to four workshops. Limited scholarships are available. This year, in response to increased demand for information […]
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Maksut was area’s best
SACO — Hockey synergy can be a beautiful thing. In the case of C.J. Maksut, it certainly was. The dynamic winger ended his four-year Thornton Academy career much the way he began it: With a three-goal hat trick. Then he walked away with a second state championship medal, the 2012 Travis Roy Award, and now, […]
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OOB pursues cruise lines
OLD ORCHARD BEACH — Local officials are hoping, in the future, to get Old Orchard Beach on the itinerary as a side excursion for cruise ships going to Portland. Old Orchard Beach Town Planner Jeffrey Hinderliter and Old Orchard Beach Chamber of Commerce Director Bud Harmon met with state officials and those in the cruise […]
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Final Four promises captivating matchup
The National Collegiate Athletic Association men’s basketball tournament started two weeks ago with 68 teams hoping to play in the Final Four. For 64 of those teams, that dream didn’t come true. The hopes of winning a national championship are still alive for four teams, however. During the past two weeks, teams have battled Thursday […]
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Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Laura Elizabeth (Harmon) Ekengren, 92, of Cromwell, Conn., wife of the late Ernest A. Ekengren, passed away on Saturday, March 24 at Pilgrim Manor. A Mass of Christian burial will be celebrated on Thursday, March 29 at 10 a.m. at St. John Church, 5 St. John Court, Cromwell, Conn. Interment will be on Friday, March […]
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Beauty of nature can be found anywhere
“Everyday is a journey, and the journey itself is home.” — Matsuo Basho When I look out my front door now, I see a river shimmering just beyond a busy street. My life’s journey has brought me here, and along with it the challenge of feeling at home as much as possible in a strange, […]
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Making sense of life through reading
When I began teaching high school English, I shared a classroom with a colleague who had papered the walls with various pictures bearing slogans designed to motivate our charges to strive to reach new and lofty academic heights. I don’t recall many of those posters specifically, but one that remains vivid in my memory was […]
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Maksut was area’s best
Thornton Academy’s C.J. Maksut, seen here in a game against Biddeford in February, earned the Travis Roy Award, which goes to the state’s top player. He is also this year’s Journal Tribune Hockey Player of the Year. (DAN HICKLING/Journal Tribune)