The long-awaited news from the folks at Saddleback is in – in part. Now projected to open at the end of January, under new ownership, skiers and the whole town of Rangely have good reason to celebrate. The Mountain’s new owners have not been announced. Why? Inquiring minds what to know. Saddleback is a terrific […]
2015
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Death of a dynasty? Alabama isn’t ready to roll over
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Reports surfaced almost immediately after Alabama’s blunder-packed loss to Mississippi suggesting that the dynasty was dying. Then the second-ranked Crimson Tide emerged from a players-only meeting the following week determined to both ignore the critics and prove them wrong. Since then, 10 straight wins have secured ‘Bama a date in the Cotton […]
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Will Smith enlightened by playing ‘Concussion’ doctor
NEW YORK — While the new Will Smith film “Concussion” may lead some to question their support of the NFL, the forensic pathologist who first drew attention to the dangers of repeated head trauma said he wanted his discoveries to “advance football.” “Concussion” tells the true story of Dr. Bennet Omalu who stumbled upon an […]
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Eagles hoping to get secondary healthy for Redskins game
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Philadelphia Eagles defensive coordinator Billy Davis expressed optimism that injured cornerbacks Byron Maxwell and Eric Rowe would be able to play Saturday in a key game against the Washington Redskins. “We’re confident we’ll have both of them, Saturday,” Davis said, Tuesday. “I’m confident they’ll be there.” Maxwell, a big free agent singing […]
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Savagery and virtuosity mingle in ‘The Revenant’
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s frontier survival saga “The Revenant,” filmed in the Canadian Rockies, seeks to join the ranks of Werner Herzog’s “Fitzcarraldo” and Francis Ford Coppola’s “Apocalypse Now”: movies that take some of their primal madness from their raw, remote natural landscapes. The making of those movies are mythic tales in their own right, and […]
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Jennifer Lawrence carries ambitious, imperfect ‘Joy’
Jennifer Lawrence is a force, whether as the hero of “The Hunger Games” or the overburdened, inventive single mother she plays in “Joy.” The Oscar winner is in every frame of David O. Russell’s new film, shining even among a star-studded cast with a performance that brings continuity to the writer-director’s ambitious but flawed story […]
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Spotlight
ART Tom Gilmore’s photographs are on display at the Louis B. Goodall Memorial Library, 952 Main St., Sanford, through the end of January. Gilmore photographs conserved lands in Maine and New Hampshire. While Acadia National Park and the White Mountains are well known, Gilmore is also developing a portfolio of photographs of land conserved by […]
