LEWISTON — Bob Blaisdell, Dale Denham and Chris McKee have been promoted within the executive team at Geiger. Blaisdell has been promoted to oversee all administrative operations in addition to the finance, legal and compliance departments. He has been with the company since 2000 as chief financial officer and executive vice president. Denham has been […]
January 2019
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Free help for tax filing preparation
DEAR SUN SPOTS: Once again, AARP Tax-Aide will be providing free income tax preparation services for low/moderate-income taxpayers for the 2019 filing season. Three days per week from Feb. 1 through April 14, our experienced IRS certified tax volunteers will be preparing and electronically filing federal and Maine income tax returns. We will be working […]
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Looking Back on Jan. 7
100 years ago: 1919 Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, twenty-sixth President of the United States, who died at his home on Sagamore Hill will be laid to rest without pomp or ceremony, in Young’s Memorial Cemetery in this village, Wednesday afternoon. He will be buried on a knoll overlooking Long Island Sound, a plot which he and […]
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Pisces: Losing your temper is a mistake
CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DAY: Jeremy Renner, 48; Nicolas Cage, 55; Katie Couric, 62; David Caruso, 63. Happy Birthday: Look for alternate routes and ways to accomplish your goals. Being open to suggestions and focusing on personal improvements and physical fitness will encourage you to participate with people who strive to maintain good health and […]
Posted inDr. Roach, sj-web
Seasonal affective disorder may respond to light therapy
DEAR DR. ROACH: Would you write about seasonal affective disorder to help so many others who may be suffering with this, but don’t even know it? I was diagnosed with clinical depression following a move from Southern California to Central Wisconsin. I took medication and had counseling, and after a couple of years was doing […]
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Oxford Hills
Animal Tales: Bridgton Books says goodbye to a sweet, gentle cat
BRIDGTON — When Pam and Justin Ward first brought their gray tabby cat to Bridgton Books three years ago, it seemed destined. Sergei — named after Sergei Samsonov, a Boston Bruin’s winger from the mid-2000’s — was not happy at home. The Wards had just moved from their old farmhouse in Bridgton to a new […]
Posted inFranklin, Lewiston-Auburn
Jay making plans for sled-in, family festival
JAY — Planning is underway for the seventh annual Spruce Mountain Sled-In and Winter Family Festival on Feb. 16. It is scheduled at French Falls Park from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. The town Recreation Committee will hold a planning meeting at 6 p.m. Wednesday at the Town Office. Anyone interested in helping is […]
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Class gatherings
MEXICO — The Stephens High School Class of 1964 will meet for lunch at 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 16, at Dick’s Restaurant. — DIXFIELD — The Stephens High School Class of 1958 will hold their monthly luncheon at noon Wednesday, Jan. 16, at Ellis’. Luncheons are returning to the third Wednesday of the month. All […]
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Opera based on Sarah Kane’s last play gets U.S. premiere
NEW YORK (AP) — Depression, rage, suicide: These are the dark ingredients of the last play written by Sarah Kane before she killed herself at age 28. Now an operatic version, as dazzling as it is disturbing, is having its U.S. premiere. “4.48 Psychosis,” composed by Philip Venables and adapted from the play of the […]
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, River Valley
Rumford board to discuss hiring town manager
RUMFORD — The Board of Selectmen will meet Wednesday to “develop a plan to hire a town manager, long term,” according to Chairman Chris Brennick. The 5:30 p.m. workshop will take place in the conference room downstairs in the Municipal Building. The board voted 4-1 on Jan. 2 to fire Town Manager Linda-Jean Briggs, without cause, […]