CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DAY: Sarah Hyland, 30; Katherine Heigl, 42; Colin Hanks, 43; Pete Best, 79. Happy Birthday: Use your imagination. Look for alternative ways to use your knowledge, experience and skills to keep up with whatever is trending this year. Be a front-runner, step into the limelight and show off what you have […]
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Posted inDr. Roach
Arterial-brachial index measures artery blockage
DEAR DR. ROACH: I’m an 88-year-old woman in good health except that I have had a lot of leg and back pain in the past two or so years. I had spinal stenosis, and I have arthritis as well. A vascular surgeon performed a lower extremity duplex Doppler test last month. It showed an ankle-brachial […]
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Posted inEncore
Looking Back on Nov. 24
100 Years Ago: 1920 Announcement that a new electric organ for St. Michael’s church in Auburn, is being built by the Hook-Hastings company at Kendall Green, Mass. was made Wednesday evening at a harvest supper at the parish house. The organ chamber has been completed under the direction of Fred Greenleaf. When finally completed, there […]
Posted inLetters, Opinion
Richard Mullins: Biden paves ‘road to recovery’
Psychiatrists say that mental illness is not contagious. However, a mentally ill person can influence others. Cults are proof of this. We know that one unstable family member, through the family’s interdependence, love and excessive empathy, can cause other family members to become unstable. One paranoid, aggressive family member can expose the latent paranoia or […]
Posted inConnections
Norway church asks community’s help in ‘Mitten Mission’
NORWAY — The Second Congregational Church, UCC, 205 Main St., requests help in expanding its Mitten Mission. For over 50 years, a small group of dedicated members and friends of the church knit mittens, hats and scarves for children in the Oxford Hills school district to use on cold winter days. This year, members are […]
Posted inLetters, Opinion
Ray Mitchell: Lesson on the importance of ‘civics’
To graduate high school in 1956 I had to pass a class called “civics.” In it we learned how our government functions. One part was about the job of a secretary of state. In each state that person leads a group of nonpartisan election workers who are trained to count ballots in national and state […]
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SeniorsPlus Online Education Center to offer December classes
LEWISTON — SeniorsPlus has announced its Online Education Center classes for December. All classes are held virtually or telephonically at this time. Classes are free, unless noted. Online classes Zoom 101: Using Video Technology to Stay Connected: From 10 to 11 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 1, 15 or 29; instructor, SeniorsPlus staff; on Zoom. Become more […]
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Cal Thomas: The unraveling of Trump’s case
The Trump legal team’s move over the weekend to distance itself from attorney Sidney Powell as it seeks to overturn the Nov. 3 election results is a major blow to the president’s attempt to win a second term. Powell, whose 2014 book, “Licensed to Lie: Exposing Corruption in the Department of Justice,” along with her […]
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Susan Dorman: Support for good wages, health benefits
Bipartisanship got the United States into trouble with the 1990’s trade agreements, which took jobs from Americans and sent them to China and elsewhere. This was seen as profitable, a good deed, a tide “raising all boats.” But the Chinese can now afford to make and buy their own products. Maybe some bipartisanship now? I […]
