Why would an older couple drive three hours south to spend a long Saturday afternoon under the sweltering sun to watch a blow-out college football game (final score: 56-7) when they knew only one player in the game and that player wasn’t even their grandchild? Here’s a hint: they’d seen the same player, a superb […]
2017
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Spouse Wants Me to Miss Him – I Think
This past week Spouse has been away at a training program somewhere in the middle of northeast southwest central Pennsylvania. That’s what it looked like on Map Quest. At the same time, Second Born, who is still at home until she saves enough money to explore opportunities out of Maine, started working full-time instead of […]
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Freeport Rotary Reaches Out
The Freeport Rotary Club is reaching out to provide hurricane relief funding to Southwest Florida in the aftermath of Hurricane Irma. A check for $2,500 has been sent to the Disaster Relief Fund in Rotary District 6960, based in Bonita Springs, Florida, to provide much needed assistance. Freeport Rotarian Michele Bois-Gilbody has connected with representatives […]
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Today in History
Today is Friday, Oct. 13, the 286th day of 2017. There are 79 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History On Oct. 13, 1792, the cornerstone of the executive mansion, later known as the White House, was laid by President George Washington during a ceremony in the District of Columbia. On this date: […]
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Trump to issue stop-payment order on health care subsidies
WASHINGTON In a brash move likely to roil insurance markets, President Donald Trump will “immediately” halt payments to insurers under the Obamaera health care law he has been trying to unravel for months. Before sunrise Friday morning, Trump went on Twitter to urge Democrats to make a deal: “The Democrats ObamaCare is imploding,” he wrote. […]
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Wildfires create worst air quality in the San Francisco Bay Area
SAN FRANCISCO Smoke from the wildfires north of San Francisco has sank air quality level in the Bay Area to the same unhealthy level as some of China’s smog-choked cities, sending people to emergency rooms, forcing schools to close and people to wear masks when they step outside. The region has endured days of choking […]
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As Trump threatens North Korea, is the U.S. practicing for war?
WASHINGTON Does the ominous rhetoric from President Donald Trump and repeated flights by U.S. strategic bombers over the Korean Peninsula mean Washington is readying for what many feel is unthinkable — a military conflict with a nuclear-armed North Korea that would put millions of civilians at risk? U.S. B-1B bombers flew this week over South […]
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Bishop Deeley ordains Bath’s Finn to transitional diaconate
PORTLAND Asking God to “look with favor on this servant of yours,” Bishop Robert P. Deeley ordained Patrick Finn, originally from Bath, to the transitional diaconate in a Mass celebrated at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Portland, on Oct. 8. “We are grateful for the growing vocation in Patrick. In this new ministry […]
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FAITH NOTES :
The Bible is a big book, written in ancient languages to people living long before contemporary culture. For folks unfamiliar with the people and practices it contains, it can also be confusing. It helps to read such words along with a commentary, designed to explain perplexing passages, or with a devotional, which tend to highlight […]