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    October 7, 2013

    Norlands raises fun and funds for living history

    A festival Saturday at the nonprofit center will support the fundraising drive to rebuild a barn that was lost to fire.

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    July 29, 2013

    Biddeford neighborhood set to sizzle

    The annual festival remains focused on community.

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    July 22, 2013

    Professional puppeteer pairs puppets, prose

    Nicola McEldowney returns to her home turf in Kennebunk with a show and a kids’ workshop.

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    July 8, 2013

    Drifters make special appearance

    Yvonne Gretta stood trembling on her front porch, clutching an original 45 record of The Drifters’ 1960 hit “Save the Last Dance For Me” that she’d purchased as a teenager. The ink on the just-autographed record was barely dry as the members of the legendary R&B group, founded in the 1950s, pulled away from Gretta’s […]

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    June 24, 2013

    Library garden event finally set to blossom

    Gardening enthusiasts are invited to tour 11 private gardens in Raymond on Saturday and to talk with garden designers about their creative processes in cultivating those spaces. It’s all part of the premiere Raymond Garden Tour, a self-guided outing being held to raise money benefiting the Raymond Village Library’s general operating fund. Elissa Gifford, a […]

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    June 17, 2013

    Shakers’ history alive and well

    Two men work diligently to bring awareness of the Sabbathday Lake village, founded in 1783, to new generations of people.

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    March 18, 2013

    Norlands overnight immerses visitors in 1800s

    The Washburn-Norlands Living History Center in Livermore has a solution for those seeking respite from our fast-paced digital age. Norlands is accepting applications for a 24-hour Live-In Experience on April 26 and 27. The immersion program is designed to transport participants to a 19th-century farm setting, where texting and Twitter are temporarily shut out in […]

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    February 11, 2013

    For fitness, kids get in on the ground floor

    Tumble Tikes was born in 2009 when a married couple of personal trainers found opportunities for kids lacking.

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    January 21, 2013

    Church ‘doing for others’ to honor civil rights icon

    The First Parish Congregational Church, UCC of Saco began its first Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service event in 2009 in response to a question posed more than four decades ago by the late civil rights leader: “Life’s most persistent and urgent question is: ‘What are you doing for others?’ “ For the fifth […]

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    January 7, 2013

    Donkey delivers a Christmas ‘miracle’

    Despite her negative pregnancy test, an abused animal gives birth at a Bridgton shelter.