Talk of the Town: It’s not so easy to follow the straight and narrow when one comes to a crooked arrow.
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Can you guess where this photo was taken?
Mystery Photo for Sept. 12, 2021: Correctly guess where this photo was taken and you will have a chance to win a $20 Hannaford Supermarket gift card.
Earmuffs and so much more: Inside the Farmington Historical Society
The historical society has been curating objects representing Franklin County for 60 years, and also owns a church and the historic Octagon House.
Auburn native Emily Schario — producer and ‘utility journalist’ for Boston’s GBH
Face Time: In just a few short years, Edward Little grad Emily Schario broke into the Boston public media scene and went from intern at WBUR’s ‘On Point’ radio show to producer in the GBH studio at the Boston Public Library.
Oh! The Humidity! Wait, Maine’s second-most-humid year is actually good for something?
We’re eating more ice cream, growing bigger eggplants and seeing more fireflies. The staff at the Maine Wildlife Park are breaking out the blood ice pops.
It happened in downtown Lewiston. Probably.
Talk of the Town: What’s a cop reporter to do now that the police scanner has gone quiet?
Can you guess where this photo was taken?
Mystery Photo for Sept. 5, 2021: Correctly guess where this photo was taken and you will be entered into a drawing for a $20 Hannaford Supermarket gift card.
In a word: How to get your new word into the dictionary
How do words get into dictionaries? A few months ago I wrote a column about long words. In it I noted that the longest word to be recognized by the good people at Merriam-Webster was considerably shorter than some of the long words recognized by their competitors. So why is that? “Famously,” they say, “the […]
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Pens? Wipes? Llamas? Check, check and check.
Denophobia? Tell us your fears . . . or how you conquered them
We know how it is. The probing of the picks, the whir of the drills, the spitting, the drooling. The very thought of going to the dentist makes you want to curl up and hide under your bed. Lots of people live in dread of dentistry work, yet many have also learned to overcome it. […]