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My baseball memorabilia

The term “baseball memorabilia” usually refers to articles such as baseball cards or autographed baseballs or scorecards of famous games. I have no such items, but baseball has played a major role in my life, yielding memories as treasured as any old baseball card. I got a confidence boost as a nine-year-old in West Virginia […]

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Selma Sternlieb

Selma Sternlieb, 82, died peacefully at home in Brunswick on September 26.  She was born in the Bronx, NY, to Rae (nee Levine) and Eli Smith (Eisenschmidt), Jewish immigrant parents from Poland, who were among the only members of their families to escape the Holocaust.  Her first language was Yiddish. From the age of 7 […]

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Donald R. Tharpe

BIDDEFORD — Donald Ray Tharpe, 75 of Biddeford, Maine joined the Lord in Heaven on Tuesday Sept. 25, 2018 at the Gosnell House in Scarborough, Maine. Don was born on Dec. 17, 1942 to the late Horace Tharpe and Margaret Eloise in Columbus, Georgia.  Don moved to Old Orchard Beach in 1956. Old Orchard Beach is […]

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Ron Chase: Kayaking to historic Damariscove Island

More than four centuries ago, Damariscove Island was a busy place.  Before Jamestown and Plymouth Colonies were founded, the island was settled in 1604 as a commercial fishing enterprise.  Abenaki Indians were even earlier intermittent residents, sporadically visiting what they called Aquahega in primitive canoes during the summer months. Located off the coast of Boothbay, […]