There are two days each year when day and night are the same length. One is in March and the other in September. These days are called equinoxes. (E-qui-nox-es. Sort of rhymes with see the foxes.)Equinoxes are the same in the upper half of the earth and the lower half (called hemispheres.) So days when […]
A.M. Sheehan
Staff Writer
A.M. Sheehan has been in the news business for 40 years, including time as an editor at the Chatham Courier in N.Y., Kitchenware News, Beachcomber and Dover Community News in N.H., and the Summerville Journal Scene, Georgetown Times, Waccamaw Times and Inlet Outlet in S.C. In Maine she has been an editor for the
Advertiser Democrat, Bethel Citizen, Franklin Journal and Livermore Falls Advertiser, and is currently managing editor for the Sun Journal's group of western Maine weeklies. She is a former journalist of the year in Maine, a Pulitzer finalist and winner of the Michael Kelley Award, the Polk Award and the Casey Medal Award. A.M. enjoys reading, theater, cooking and gardening.
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Mt. Blue runners take first in home meet
FARMINGTON — The Mt. Blue High School boys and girls cross country teams each took first place in a four team meet at home on Friday. In the boys race, Mt. Blue’s Cyrus Evans, Henri McCourt, and Luke Doscinski took the first three places to key the victory. Spruce Mountain’s Abram Geissinger and Cony’s Sam […]
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What I’ve Learned
I was an adult before I learned an important thing about novels: they don’t have to be read straight through from beginning to end without stopping. Up until my mid-20s, that’s how I read. That’s how I thought everyone read.I’m not a fast reader, so a 60,000 word novel would take me close to five […]
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Beagles arrive at RPC
Maine shelters to welcome 100 beagles as part of national placement efforts of approximately 4,000 beagles removed from the Envigo facility in Cumberland, Virginia
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Word of the Week
Literacy(LIT-er-uh-see)The ability to read and writeWhen a teacher came to LiLa’s village, the literacy there improved.Most of the villagers became literate.
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International Literacy Day
Literacy is the ability to read and write. Not everyone can do that. In fact, more than 700 million people in the world can’t read and write. That’s more people than live in Canada, the United States, and Mexico combined!International Literacy Day, which is on September 8 each year, is a day for people who […]
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How do you say that in …
English: scrumptiousFrench: délicieuxSpanish: de chuparse los dedosGerman: leckerItalian: deliziosoArabic: shahiun شهيChinese: Měiwèi de 美味的
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Word of the Week
scrumptious(scrump-shuss)Beautiful or delicious.Amy thought the chocolate cookies were scrumptious.(Scrumptious is a word from the early 1800s. In Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl added diddly to the middle of the word, creatingscrumdiddlyumptious.)
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Current Events/Roald Dahl Day
September 13th is Roald Dahl Day.You probably have read a book by Roald Dahl. Or seen a movie based on one of his books. Perhaps it was one of these: James and the Giant Peach, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The BFG, or Matilda.Or maybe it was The Gremlins; The Witches; or Danny, Champion of […]