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NBA Roundup: Thornton scores 36 as Kings cruise past Celtics

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Marcus Thornton hit five 3-pointers scored a season-high 36 points and the Sacramento Kings snapped a three-game losing streak with a 120-95 win over the Boston Celtics on Friday night. The Kings set a season high for points and pulled away in the third quarter, shooting 70 percent and scoring 41 points […]

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Review: Players’ ‘A Few Good Men’ holds up well

Like “Here’s looking at you, kid” or “You talkin’ to me?”, “You can’t handle the truth” is one of those memorable lines that writers dream of writing and actors dream of delivering. The Portland Players have opened an ambitious production of “A Few Good Men,” the play in which that famous line about truth, later […]

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Review: ‘Red’ invites art to show its true colors

Is a painting merely brush strokes on a canvas? Or is it the hopes, dreams and fears of its creator and those who look upon it? In the play “Red,” legendary abstract expressionist Mark Rothko (Joel Leffert) tells his assistant Ken (Anthony Johnston) that sending his paintings out into the world is akin to “sending […]

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Fire house living

WATERBORO — A couple of weeks ago, as the ambulance made its way to the hospital and EMTs were tending to the patient’s needs, John Malia reached out to do what he could to comfort the woman, who had dementia. “I held her hand on the way to hospital,’” said Malia, a student in the […]