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Schwarz, Genthner

PHIPPSBURG — Heidi Ann Schwarz and Richard Gerald Genthner of Phippsburg wish to announce their engagement. Schwarz, daughter of Dallas Schwarz of Concord, Massachusetts, and Howard Schwarz Jr. of Athens, is a graduate of Wiscasset High School and Head Hunter Spa Tech Institute in Portland, receiving her license in 2005. She works at Bath Hair […]

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Wolfe, Jones

BRUNSWICK — Lisa Marie Wolfe and Andrew Lindley Jones of Brunswick wish to announce their engagement. Wolfe, daughter of Phyllis and Ted Wolfe of Bath, is a 2000 graduate of Morse High School and 2005 graduate of the University of North Carolina at Asheville. She works as a Montessori elementary educator in Nobleboro. Jones, son […]

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50th anniversary

WISCASSET — Mickey and Crystal (Everett) Jones recently celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary at a gathering at the Bible Baptist Church in Wiscasset hosted by their children. The Joneses were married in Gardiner on Nov. 19, 1966. They were both longtime employees of Bath Iron Works; Mickey in the payroll department and Crystal as executive […]

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Freebie Treasures

AUGUSTA OK, I admit it. I pick up castoff gloves I find along the side of the road. You never know: These gloves that have blown out of the backs of pickup trucks can, if you’re patient, be useful. You just need to hold onto that lonely left until you can match it up with […]

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Holiday gift ideas for the gardener

It’s that time of the year again: time to figure out good gifts for Uncle Albert and your sister Sadie. If they’re gardeners, gifts are easy to pick. There are plenty of items that cost from $5 to $300, and generally, one size fits all. Let’s look at some things I have used and like. […]

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The fun part of family road trips

Like other families, we’ve just returned from an epic holiday vacation to spend Thanksgiving with relatives. Unlike most, however, we went 1,705 miles to do it — according to AAA, about “48.7 million Americans will journey 50 miles or more from home this Thanksgiving” — and we did it in a car with legroom equivalent […]

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Trying to figure out the marketing game

It’s painfully clear the already lengthy list of things I don’t understand is growing at an exponential rate. Advertising, it seems, is the latest subject about which I have been grievously misinformed. I always thought the job of marketers was convincing consumers to buy whatever they were selling by making their products appear intriguing, indispensable, […]

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Choir to perform at Springvale museum Dec. 10

The a capella choir, Christmas with Renaissance Voices will perform in concert at 7:30 p.m.  at the Sanford-Springvale Historical Society on Saturday evening, Dec. 10.  While the group focuses on music of the Renaissance, their program will include works from other periods.  Featured this year in the 21-member choir, which is giving its seventh performance […]