Imagine what it would be like to have no memory. Imagine starting each day anew, from a cognitive standpoint. Picture yourself with all that freedom! And no clue what to do with it. Now, title that exercise: “ideals and reality are very far apart” (from the 1973 movie “Walking Tall”). Perfection is what we’d like, […]

Today Yard sale, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., Sanford Unitarian Universalist Church; held at 2141 Sanford Road (Route 109), Wells. Spring fair and market, 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., Falmouth Congregational Church, 267 Falmouth Road.  Thursday Seek the Lord in Prayer, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., open for prayer nightly through June 11. Some evenings will […]

‘I haven’t cried,” a client said. Days before, his 35-year-old wife had succumbed to cancer. For weeks he slogged through what he called “business mode.” “I’m emotionally strong but I’m a little concerned about not crying,” he repeated. “It’s normal,” I said. “You will cry one day. You will.” We’ve all experienced deaths of friends […]

The state’s tourism development agency has approved incentives for the $172 million project.

DALLAS – A Dallas-area school district has decided to stop renting a nondenominational megachurch for high school graduation amid concerns about separation of church and state. The American Civil Liberties Union of Texas raised questions about use of The Potter’s House. The Dallas Morning News reported this week that the Irving school district in 2012 […]

PORTLAND – State Street Church, United Church of Christ, has received a $49,962 grant for the Rev. Jeanette A. Good to participate in the National Clergy Renewal Program. The grant is funded by the Indianapolis-based Lilly Endowment Inc. and State Street Church is one of four congregations in Maine and 150 across the country that […]

Today Indoor yard sale, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., Second Congregational Church, 19 Crescent St., Biddeford. Rummage and plant sale, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Westbrook Warren Congregational Church, 810 Main St., Westbrook. Plant and bake sale, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., St. Peter’s Church, 42 Sweden Road (Route 93), Bridgton. Yard, plant and bake […]