Who doesn’t like stories? And if they are true, isn’t that even better? One night at a gala Christmas party at the home of a prominent Maine legislator from Windham, surrounded by a host of his friends, he told me that he loved stories of the Old West the cowboy days. Oh, that struck a […]
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EARTH SPEAKS: Tall tales to remember
Who doesn’t like stories? And if they are true, isn’t that even better? One night at a gala Christmas party at the home of a prominent Maine legislator from Windham, surrounded by a host of his friends, he told me that he loved stories of the Old West the cowboy days. Oh, that struck a […]
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Inside New Gloucester – 4/18
Easter Sunday Services The First Congregational-Christian Church will be hosting a sunrise service on Sunday, April 20, starting at 5:45 a.m. at Opportunity Farm, which is now called the Wayfinder School, 215 Gloucester Hill Road, New Gloucester. Attendees are encouraged to bring a bell or other tuneful object. Bells will ring when the sun peeks […]
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Celebrate Earth Day with Bald Pate hike
BRIDGTON – Come join Loon Echo Land Trust for the annual Earth Day hike and celebration on Tuesday, April 22. Earth Day, founded in 1970 by U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson, intends to inspire awareness and appreciation for our natural environment. The fun begins with a family-friendly, moderate hike up Bald Pate Mountain in South Bridgton. […]
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LETTERS: Thank you
Windham School Age Child Care program would like to thank all who participated in the March raffle. We want to thank all the businesses who donated prizes so we were able to have a raffle prize for each day in March and then had a final drawing of three more prizes for all who had […]
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Best of Best contest winners celebrated
More than 100 people celebrated the 2014 Readers Choice Contest Best of Best winners at the Genest Concrete showroom on Enterprise Drive in North Windham on Wednesday evening, April 16. On April 4, more than 180 awards, divided into 60 categories, were announced in the annual contest, with some businesses, such as the Umbrella Factory […]
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GREETINGS FROM ZIP CODE 04074: Pig pile on the poor
Let’s play kickball with the poor, shall we? The governor has found his issue that excites him! Similar to the old Guinness World Book of Records’ question for college students back in the 1960s and ’70s of “How many kids can you fit into a Volkswagen,” today we have from Augusta, “How many different types […]
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EDITORIAL: Sex-trafficking bill step in right direction
With the incidence of human trafficking trending upward in Greater Portland and the rest of Maine, the timing of a bill sponsored by Scarborough Rep. Amy Volk couldn’t have come at a better time. And as if to signify the growing scourge of the shadowy sex-slave industry, mere hours after Gov. Paul LePage signed Volk’s […]
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Sea Dogs off to good start
With 11 games played in the new season, the Portland Sea Dogs, with seven wins and four losses, are tied for second place in the East Division of the Eastern League. Sure, it’s very early, and 142 games is a long season, but this team displays an intensity and drive that predicts an exciting, interesting […]
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DOWN THE ROAD APIECE: A winter worth crowing about
I got a letter in the mail the other day. Remember letters? Remember those messages that came mostly in white envelopes and were left in your mail box? I used to get them all the time from friends, relatives, radio listeners, readers of this column, libel attorneys (just kidding). Our modes of communication have become […]