The romantic triangle is for director James L. Brooks what Monument Valley was for John Ford: a landscape to be awed by, reckoned with, viewed from every conceivable angle. In Brooks’ “Broadcast News” and “As Good as It Gets,” love of work got in the way of love for another. But in “How Do You […]
2011
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Country jamborees set to begin Jan. 7
WILTON — Beginning on Jan. 7, a new season of country jamboree/spotlight shows will be held on Friday nights at the Harnden Masonic Lodge. The shows, running through April 15, will feature two spotlight acts each week and again will be filmed for showing on local access TV channels. Light refreshments will be available and […]
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Congress must not delay deficit fight
The following editorial appeared in The Philadelphia Inquirer on Dec. 28: Now that Congress and President Obama have finished congratulating themselves on extending tax cuts, the harder work of deficit reduction must soon begin. The agreement to prolong the Bush-era tax cuts for two more years, cut the payroll tax, and extend unemployment benefits was […]
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Agencies move to new Front Street space
FARMINGTON — Five agencies will open for business Monday in the new Bubier building at 165 Front St. The Greater Franklin Development Corp., Western Mountains Alliance, Women’s Business Center and Androscoggin Valley Council of Governments have moved from Church Street Commons to the new building. The law office of DR Haszko will share space with […]
Posted inLewiston-Auburn
Police log
Charges Lewiston * Ty Henry Taylor, 49, of 6 Aron Drive, Auburn on a charge of violating condition of release, 7:51 a.m. Thursday at 37 Park St. * Danielle Mary Duval, 23, of 16 Hillside Lane on a charge of violating condition of release, 10:20 a.m. Thursday at 37 Park St. * Michael Louis Williams […]
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Midcoast Symphony Orchestra: Clarion calls will ring out in Lewiston and Topsham
LEWISTON — Music Director Rohan Smith will conduct the Midcoast Symphony Orchestra in a program featuring brass instruments and military themes. Guest soloist Wayne du Maine, a Juilliard-trained trumpeter based in New York City, will join the orchestra in a performance of Henry Tomsai’s Trumpet Concerto. The orchestra will also perform Richard Strauss’s brass Fanfare […]
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‘Colonel Roosevelt’ is masterful, moving
He could eat 12 fried eggs at a sitting. He had “a profound enjoyment of anything rocky, slimy, hardscrabble and dangerous,” as Edmund Morris writes. He was passionately fond of long expeditions to mysterious and remote regions of the world, from Africa to South America, and once there, he shot animals with gleeful abandon; lions, […]
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Bull Moose makes most of uptick in book sales
SCARBOROUGH — Nearly half the nation’s independent book stores have closed in the past decade. Book store chains are struggling. E-books are all the rage. Even so, Brett Wickard is defying logic by adding books to the inventory at his Bull Moose record shop, devoting 3,500 square feet of space, aisles of shelves and 22,000 […]
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Bells of all sizes wanted for church project
DEAR SUN SPOTS: If anyone has bells of any size or kind they no longer want, we could use them for a church project. We will pick them up. Thank you! — G. Nadeau, Lewiston, 783-7536 DEAR SUN SPOTS: Regarding where to find white popcorn in the Dec. 22 Sun Spots. I purchase a 30-ounce […]