Twice Baked Sweet Potatoes Warm up your house and your tummy with these delicious baked sweet potatoes side dish full of Vitamin A and fiber! Serves 6 (half a potato each serving) Ingredients: 4 medium sweet potatoes 1 ½ teaspoon canola or vegetable oil ¼ cup parmesan grated 3 tablespoons light sour cream 1 tablespoon […]
2020
SMCC to offer virtual open houses, visits
SOUTH PORTLAND — Southern Maine Community is holding a series of virtual Open Houses, high school visits and informational sessions for prospective and accepted students to learn about SMCC and its academic programs. The SMCC Admissions Office will offer Virtual Open Houses grouped by academic division starting on December 1 and ending on December 8. […]
Many thanks to Liliana
To the Editor: The Oxford Helping Hands Food Pantry would like to thank 5-year-old Liliana Tripp and her parents of Oxford. She chose to collect food for us as a school project. We were amazed at the amount of food, gift cards and cash that she collected. The need is always great but even more […]
COVID-19 battering SAD 17 schools
As of Nov. 18, three schools are closed due to outbreaks of three or more cases and one school has too many educators in quarantine for in-person learning. But six schools report no positive cases, currently.
Sports on TV: Thursday, November 19
Thursday, November 19 (All times Eastern) Schedule subject to change and/or blackouts AUTO RACING 8:30 p.m. FS2 — NHRA: Pro Mod Series, Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Las Vegas (taped) BOXING 9 p.m. NBCSN — Ring City USA: O’Shaquie Foster vs. Miguel Roman (Super Featherweights), Wild Card Boxing Club, Los Angeles COLLEGE FOOTBALL 7:30 p.m. ESPN […]
Maine restaurants wary of more COVID shutdowns
Restaurant owners say they are being unfairly labeled as ‘super-spreaders,’ and if the state orders them to close, they will need some financial relief.
On this date in Maine history: Nov. 19
Nov. 19, 1819: Former President Thomas Jefferson writes a letter to William King, a leading Maine statehood advocate and future Maine governor, thanking him for sending Jefferson a draft of the proposed Maine Constitution, being prepared in conjunction with Maine’s anticipated admission to statehood in 1820. While praising most of the document, Jefferson faults its […]
Historical question posed at meeting
WOODSTOCK — At its Nov. 17 select board meeting (via Zoom), while discussing department reports, Woodstock Selectman Shawn Coffin asked Town Manager Vern Maxfield if he could reach out to the Woodstock Historical Society to see if they’ve ever documented anything on the “Old Perham Fireplace”. According to Coffin, Perham, who was supposedly one of […]
Noah Tanguay ready to take over
NEWRY — On November 9, The River Fund Maine officially appointed Noah Tanguay-Collins as its new executive director. Tanguay-Collins replaces Jim Largess, who had served as TRFM’s previous executive director prior to taking a job in Vermont. Collins, a 2012 Mountain Valley graduate, has been involved with Sunday River nearly a decade, having started as […]
Christmas with Masons on 5th and 12th
BETHEL — The Museums of the Bethel Historical Society’s annual event, “Christmas at the Moses Mason House,” is set to happen this year, with open houses being offered on both the first and second Saturdays in December. The first open house is set for Saturday, Dec. 5 from 1 to 5 p.m. and the second, […]