To the Editor: The Bethel Outing Club Annual Ski Sale takes place Friday, Oct. 27 from 6 to 9 p.m. and Saturday, Oct. 28 from 9 to Noon at Gould Academy Field House. Vendors will have on sale Nordic and Alpine skis, boots, poles, and bindings, as well as helmets and other gear such as […]
2023
Do you have room in your heart?
We are filled to the brim with wonderful cats and kittens. Here are two sweet kitties who are waiting to go home with you… Beautiful Melody came to us in late March from another rescue in Puerto Rico. Her name is very fitting since she often sings beautiful melodies while being petted. She is a […]
Movie Review: ‘Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour’
Taylor Swift is the single most powerful force in pop culture at the moment. Every other musical artist is eating her dust on the charts. Television, upended by writers’ and actors’ strikes, is only doing well with sporting events where the topic of conversation is Taylor and her possible relationship with Kansas City Chiefs tight […]
Movie Review: ‘Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour’
Taylor Swift is the single most powerful force in pop culture at the moment. Every other musical artist is eating her dust on the charts. Television, upended by writers’ and actors’ strikes, is only doing well with sporting events where the topic of conversation is Taylor and her possible relationship with Kansas City Chiefs tight […]
OH Rotary donates to Harrison Food Bank
OXFORD HILLS — The Oxford Hills Rotary Club is shown donating $1,000 to Sandy Swett, Operations Manager and Coordinator for the Harrison Food Bank. The funds will be used towards their transportation costs. For more information, go to oxfordhillsrotary.org or find them on Facebook.
Maine Country Music Hall of Fame ‘Extravaganza 2023’
MECHANIC FALLS — The Maine Country Music Hall of Fame will hold its annual Benefit Fundraiser Show, ‘EXTRAVAGANZA 2023′ on Sunday, Nov. 12 at The Silver Spur Dance Club in Mechanic Falls. The three-hour live show will feature a fabulous line-up of Maine Country Music Hall of Famers from all over the State of Maine. […]
Guest Op/Ed: Maine cannot afford to not invest in its public university infrastructure
For decades, the University of Maine System has seriously underinvested in its statewide physical plant. More than half of academic spaces and three-quarters of residence halls have not undergone real renovation since students used slide rules. Classrooms are not conducive to 21st-century workforce preparation. Research labs lack the capacity to meet industry innovation needs. And […]
Do you have room in your heart?
We are filled to the brim with wonderful cats and kittens. Here are two sweet kitties who are waiting to go home with you… Beautiful Melody came to us in late March from another rescue in Puerto Rico. Her name is very fitting since she often sings beautiful melodies while being petted. She is a […]
Maine rattlesnakes?
To the Editor: Nicole Carter’s reporting on Michael Davis’s rattlesnake research in Maine (October 12) was especially interesting to those who may have wondered why, in supposedly rattler-free Maine, we have Rattlesnake Mountain and Rattlesnake Brook in parts of Oxford and Cumberland Counties, dating back to colonial maps. Several years ago, a man in the […]
Sports on TV: Thursday, October 26, 2023
(All times Eastern) Schedule subject to change and/or blackouts Thursday, October 26 COLLEGE FIELD HOCKEY 4 p.m. BTN — Maryland at Northwestern COLLEGE FOOTBALL 7 p.m. CBSSN — LIU Brooklyn at Central Connecticut St. 7:30 p.m. ESPN — Syracuse at Virginia Tech ESPN2 — Georgia St. at Georgia Southern ESPNU — SC State at NC […]