GRAY – Christopher “Chris” Chapman Branch, 67, passed away on May 7, 2022, after more than a year of battling cancer. …
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Obituary: Paul L. Chretien
FARMINGTON – Paul L. Chretien, one of the most caring, kindest, and generous guys his friends and family have ever known, …
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Obituary: Glenys M. Morton
LISBON FALLS – Glenys M. Morton, 87, of Lisbon Falls, passed away Wednesday, May 11, 2022 at Bolster Heights in Auburn. …
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MMA: Ryan Sanders knocks out Mark Gardner to cap off ‘Battle of L/A’
New England Fights returns to the Twin Cities with a card of eight professional and nine amateur fights at Norway Savings Bank Arena.
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DEAR ABBY: My parents divorced when I was 4. I’ve had a problem with insecurity and jealousy for as long as I can remember. I have two older sisters who are twins and a half-brother my stepmom and dad had when I was 18. My sisters were always the popular and favored kids because they […]
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Cancer: Get together with people who share your concerns, interests and ambition. Call experts to help you sort through any particulars that will shed light on the quickest and most cost-efficient way to reach your target.
CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DAY: Jamie-Lynn Sigler, 41; David Krumholtz, 44; Russell Hornsby, 48; Chazz Palminteri, 70. Happy Birthday: Take charge and control situations that can affect your professional or personal life. Protect against interference and being put in a compromising position. Have a plan ready to counter anyone trying to dictate or sway your […]
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How to get fostering
While a growing number of Maine people have opened their homes to foster pets, a lot of dogs and cats are still out there without homes, creating a never-ending cycle of need for the people who try to take care of the animals. Angela Poulin, the adoption coordinator at the Androscoggin Greater Humane Society in […]
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The challenges and joys of raising a pet just to give it away
It can be difficult, falling in love with an animal and then giving it away. But a growing number of Maine pet fosterers say the rewards are doggone wonderful.
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West Paris church receives fundraiser match for restoration project
WEST PARIS – Judith Clements Packer has offered to match individual donations, up to $8,000, to help with raising funds for the First Universalist Church of West Paris Stained-Glass Restoration Project. The donation match time period runs through Sept. 1, according to a news release from the church. Packer, a sister of the late Nicholas […]
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In a word: RINOs, DINOs, jackasses and more political wildlife
In 1870 Harper’s Weekly cartoonist Thomas Nast called one of his drawings ‘A Live Jack-Ass Kicking a Dead Lion,’ in which the jackass represented the Northern Democrats, and the lion was Lincoln’s secretary of war, Edwin M. Stanton.