Mail carrier maces chihuahua, girl I’m not sure I’m buying this one. Maybe it was a pit bull/great dane mix that attacked the postwoman, but the family switched it out for an ankle biter for the sake of a good story. You know, get the press all excited. If it was a chihuahua that prompted […]

PROBLEM: Your preschooler loves to run around the house naked. Should you make her or him cover up when other grown-ups are coming over? PARENT ADVICE: “I let my preschoolers run around naked just before and after their baths in the evening only. We called it their streaking time. They got their time to be […]

Seven strips of bacon. Wait, wait. That bears repeating: Seven strips of thin, crispy bacon. First thing in the morning, on an empty stomach, when you’re maybe expecting only two, that’s a pleasant surprise. I’d been to the Fairground Cafe in the Topsham Fair Mall a half-dozen times now with the same friend, already stuck […]

“I feel a column coming on,” my wife said, doing her usual read-my-mind thing. It was another superb nine o’clock in the morning in Charleston, S.C., where we had come for a brief respite before the start of my travel season. We were seated in one of the finest of the many fine breakfast bistros […]

Good morning. Well, we cannot avoid it any longer — it is fall. The hydrangeas are in full bloom as are the dahlias, if you didn’t get an early frost where you live. The apple orchards are bustling with happy people; and in the marshy areas, the signs of red can no longer be ignored. […]

You know how it goes. You spend so much time staring into the night sky and pondering the big mysteries, you get all freaked out and have to go inside where it’s bright and safe. And who can blame you? It’s like the great man said: “Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, […]

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ATM’s that are really not accessible from your vehicle. Why should you have to get out of your car to access an ATM? Not all motorists are NBA players with a 42-inch reach. — Smokey People pumping gas then driving off without paying. They’re not taking from the big corporations, they’re taking money from the […]

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Abdisalan Ali just got home last month from a seven-month internship at Disney World and went right back to the books. The Central Maine Community College accounting major took part in the Disney Theme Parks and Resorts College Program, a paid internship. “It was really good for people doing hospitality,” he said. But he learned […]