Before I start this column I must confess that I waste food. I am trying not to. At dinner last evening we were discussing freezing foods. Cooking for one person after cooking for a family of six people (with good appetites and not fussy) is hard. Shopping is not easy. It seems that foods come […]
2018
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Rachel Lovejoy: Nature so much more than meets the eye
Years ago, when I lived in a place surrounded by woods, I picked up an acorn. It’s not that I’d never done this. I had, a thousand times before. If you’ve seen one acorn, you’ve seen them all, and there isn’t much that is spectacular about them. And living as I did at the time […]
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Doctors nudged by overdose letter prescribe fewer opioids
In a novel experiment, doctors got a letter from the medical examiner’s office telling them of their patient’s fatal overdose. The response: They started prescribing fewer opioids. Other doctors, whose patients also overdosed, didn’t get letters. Their opioid prescribing didn’t change. More than 400 “Dear Doctor” letters, sent last year in San Diego County, were […]
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Cleaning up the Saco
Seven tons of trash. That’s what was removed from the Saco River last year during the Saco Salmon Restoration Alliance’s annual Saco River Trash Drive. Among the items were numerous tires, wood debris such as wooden pallets and pieces of docks, cans and bottles, furniture, rolled up carpets, even a drive shaft from a car, […]
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District attorney candidate faces disbarment hearing
AUBURN — Seth Carey, the Republican nominee for district attorney in Androscoggin, Franklin and Oxford counties, faces disbarment next week, stemming in part from allegations he sexually abused a woman and then proposed paying her to drop her complaint. The woman making the allegations against Carey is a former client who had been living with him at […]
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Reunions
Cape Elizabeth High School Class of 1968 50th reunion. Sept. 15. Purpoodock Club, Cape Elizabeth. Looking for classmate information. Contact Steve Hill at [email protected]. Deering High School Class of 1956 reunion and 80th Birthdays Bash. 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday. Portland County Club, 11 Foreside Road, Falmouth. Cost is $50. Register with Bette Packard […]
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Events
HALLOWELL Church celebrates opening of cutting-edge building Granite Hill Church, formerly the First Baptist Church of Hallowell, will celebrate the grand opening of its new building this weekend at 76 Town Farm Road. There will be live music at 7 p.m. Friday, featuring a blend of modern Christian and mainstream hits. There will be an […]
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Community meals
MONDAY Free community breakfast, including eggs, bacon, pancakes, French toast and pastries, as well as coffee, tea, juice and milk. 6:30 to 9 a.m. Chestnut Street Baptist Church, 29 Chestnut St., Camden. 542-0360. WEDNESDAY Free meal, Trinity Lutheran Church. 5 to 6 p.m. Westbrook Community Center, 426 Bridge St. 854-5653. THURSDAY Free community meal, 5:30 […]
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Briefs
MACHIAS Digital Equity Center earns AmeriCorps training grant Axiom Education & Training Center’s National Digital Equity Center has received a $699,503 AmeriCorps grant from the Maine Commission for Community Service to support 16 AmeriCorps members who will provide digital literacy training for the next three years. The grant will support AmeriCorps members in eight counties […]
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