It happened yesterday, as I write this. It happened last week, as you read this. I had just climbed out of my car in front of Backwoods, after donning my face mask and starting to head for the post office across the street during last Thursday’s cold mid-morning…I quickly changed direction by about 40 degrees […]
2020
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Maine COVID-19 hospitalizations rise, and bed capacity is closely watched
The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention testing lab was closed for Thanksgiving, and updated statewide COVID-19 case numbers won’t be released until Saturday.
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“Snap Shots in Time” …Historical Glimpses from the Region’s Iconic Past
What follows are some clippings from the pages of the November 29, 1895 edition of the RANGELEY LAKES newspaper. (Editor’s note: Contemporary commentary in italics, otherwise copy is reprinted just as it was in 1895). What follows is the last stanza of a poem called “Thanksgiving” by Elizabeth Akers Allen that appeared on Page 1. […]
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Black Friday is here – and it’s completely different
Holiday sales began weeks ago, and many shoppers say they’re shunning stores this year in favor of buying online.
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Rangeley Border Patrol arrests violent sex offender, reunites missing woman with family
A missing Virginia woman has been reunited with her family and a convicted violent sex offender arrested due to a combined effort by law enforcement agencies. According to a U.S. Border Patrol news release, agents at the Rangeley Border Patrol Station received a tip Thursday from an off-duty warden with the Maine Warden Service regarding […]
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Most Mainers stay home on Black Friday amid worsening pandemic
Retailers expect sales for the full holiday season to be up over last year, but they’ve shifted away from typical ‘doorbuster’ sales on the day after Thanksgiving.
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Gadgets So Bad They’re Hilarious!
If we have all the toys we want in life, we should feel fulfilled. With Christmas creeping up soon and Covid beating the hell out of us, our mailman’s mail sack has been loaded with so many new catalogs, many we have never heard of, but interesting to look at, and good throne reading! Catalogs […]
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Rangeley teenager is first full-time firefighter in the town
Camdan Carmichael has returned home to serve a community he knows and loves. He was hired recently from among several applicants to be the Fire Rescue Department’s first full-time firefighter, Chief Michael Bacon said. Voters approved the position in July. He started the job on Monday. Rangeley has been growing over the past few years, […]
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Scrappy Chef- Simple Ingredients that Lead to a Delicious Cake!
Don’t be put off by its name, whoever invented this is a brainiac, for what is considered the greatest invention in dessert history. Behold the power of the dump! A dessert with the most unappealing name, yet the best must-have to try. The history is cloudy, there was some overlap when it was sometimes called […]
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Donna Perry named New England’s journalist of the year
Sun Journal Staff Writer Donna Perry has been named this year’s AP Sevellon Brown Journalist of the Year for New England. The award, named in honor of Sevellon Brown, the late editor and publisher of The Providence Journal-Bulletin, was announced Wednesday during the annual New England Newspaper & Press Association fall conference. The annual award, […]