December 2016
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Wednesday, Dec. 14
BIDDEFORD–Three-time Grammy Award nominee David Arkenstone will bring his musical holiday journey to Biddeford on Wednesday. Arkenstone, who has 20 Billboard hits under his belt, is on the road promoting his new album, “Winter: Around The World One Winter’s Eve.” Arkenstone is known for his other holiday albums, “Christmas Spirit,” “Celtic Christmas,” and “Christmas Lounge.” […]
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Are ‘presidential facts’ replacing plain facts?
“Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, but they are not entitled to their own facts.” This bit of wisdom has been attributed to Daniel Moynihan, a college professor turned U.S. senator. But it may now be all wrong. Defending statements made by President-elect Trump, a campaign loyalist said the American people “understood that sometimes […]
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Ministry project sends Christmas cards to inmates
SOUTH ABINGTON TOWNSHIP, Pa. (AP) — It started with one 4-by-6-inch card four years ago. Since then, Julie Overholser and her husband, Jamie, have overseen sending Christmas cards and other mail to hundreds of inmates in more than 20 prison facilities across the country through a prison ministry called Bound Together. “I feel like we […]
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Dazzling holiday decor
A Christmas tree at Edith Belle Libby Memorial Library, with ornaments made from book pages, as seen Thursday afternoon in Old Orchard Beach. LIZ GOTTHELF/Journal Tribune
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From biosolids to compost at Sanford Sewerage District
SANFORD — Ask any gardener and they will tell you that composting — the addition of organic material to the soil — is a benefit. The U.S Composting Council says compost has the unique ability to improve the properties of soils and growing media structurally, nutritionally and biologically. Now, there is a new source locally as […]
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Innovation unlocks bright future for elementary students
BIDDEFORD—Solutions to some of the toughest global problems in the future may come from an unlikely source right here in Biddeford. On Saturday, a team of elementary students from Biddeford’s St. James School will vie for the FIRST LEGO League Maine State Championship at the Augusta Civic Center and the competition is intended to create […]
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Noble ‘Eugene’ Steeves
BUXTON – Noble “Eugene” Steeves, 88, passed away peacefully in his sleep Dec. 7, 2016 at the Veteran’s Administration Togus Springs Hospice in Augusta. Eugene was born in Waterville, Maine, Dec. 24, 1927 to Noble and Annie Steeves. He grew up in Buxton and helped run the family gas station, graduating from Samuel D. Hanson […]