A larger-than-usual crowd meeting up at your house for dinner? This onion beer bread would add a lot to the menu. It’s delicious, of course, but it’s also very easy to whip up. Unlike more conventional breads, this one doesn’t involve yeast or require multiple risings. And except for the rosemary, you probably have all […]
2018
Try acrylic pour painting … and go with the flow
CONCORD, N.H. When it comes to acrylic pour painting, there’s more than one way to go with the flow. As the name suggest, pour painting involves pouring rather than brushing paint onto a canvas to create swirling, abstract designs. Not only are there many techniques for applying the paint — puddle pour, dirty pour, flip […]
Bringing the desert to urban yards
PHOENIX When I moved to Phoenix last summer, I was bewildered by all the bright green grass I saw smack in the middle of the Sonoran Desert — in residential yards, on golf courses, at community parks. While the temperatures were hitting nearly 120 degrees, these perfect lawns sucked up huge amounts of water delivered […]
Rockin’ Daddios to perform at Saturday dinner dance
WELLS — A dinner, show and sock hop dance to help the Sanford Amvets Ladies Auxiliary will get an early start on raising money for Toys for Tots and other projects is set for Saturday, March 3 at the Elks Lodge in Wells. Amvet Ladies Auxiliary President Shirley Girard said a group called the Rockin’ […]
Trump wants states to pay more for infrastructure
President Donald Trump has promised to spend a trillion dollars on infrastructure but he wants to leverage this money to provide the extra provided by states and cities to make their project possible, not pay the whole thing. This way he gets the most bang for the federal buck. Whether Trump understands the Constitution or […]
A wake-up call for the public and a challenge to millennials
“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” — Abraham Lincoln “Great men, great nations have not been boasters and buffoons, but perceivers of the terror of life, and have manned themselves to face it.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson The challenge […]
Sanford High School Honor Roll
SANFORD — Administrators at Sanford High School have announced the top academic performers achieving distinction on the school’s honor roll for the second quarter of the 2017-2018 school year. HIGH HONORS Grade 12: Jenna Beaudoin, James Beaupre, Sydney Clendaniel, Sophie Cote, Stephanie Lane, Taylor MacDonald, Owen McGrath, and Savanna Perry. Grade 11: Gianna Beninati, Emily Dickerson, Adam […]
Maine secretary of state to discuss role in defunct Trump panel
LEWISTON (AP) — Maine’s secretary of state will appear at a Bates College event this week to talk about his involvement in President Donald Trump’s much-debated and now defunct voter fraud commission. Secretary of State Matt Dunlap was a vocal critic of the commission and filed a lawsuit in November contending it violated the Federal […]
Bill would criminalize photos of minors by sex offenders
AUGUSTA (AP) — It could become illegal for a sex offender to take a photo of a minor without consent in Maine. A proposed bill would make it a crime for a person required to register as a sex offender to intentionally photograph a minor without a parent or guardian’s consent. The bill is set […]