DEAR SUN SPOTS: Just before Christmas I was at a stop sign waiting to exit Home Depot. I saw a young man running across the parking lot waving his arms. He came to my car and told me a rear tire was flat. He said I should back up into a parking space and he […]
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Wife returns home to find extra lingerie in her bed
DEAR ABBY: My husband and I have been married 31 years. We have four lovely children and seven grandchildren. I went to visit a friend out of state for a week. After I returned home, I went to make our bed. When I pulled back the sheets, I found a pair of lacy underwear that […]
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Community sale
LOVELL — There will be a $2 per bag sale from Jan. 19-Feb. 2, at the thrift shop of the United Church of Christ, Route 5, Center Lovell. Hours are 10 a.m. to noon Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays.
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New Hampshire sees surge in conflicts between bears and humans
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire saw a surge in conflicts between bears and humans this past year, as a shortage of food drove the animals to raid bird feeders and garbage dumps more frequently. The New Hampshire Fish and Game Department’s Bear Project Leader Andrew Timmins said Monday that there were around 800 reports […]
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Allergy shots stopped working — now what?
DEAR DR. ROACH: I’ve had allergies my entire life. I started taking allergy shots, and all my symptoms disappeared. I had years of symptom-free springs and falls. Then, a few years ago, the itchy, watery eyes returned, along with other symptoms. I have to take Flonase and an allergy pill on top of my allergy […]
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Auburn-Lewiston YMCA girls' basketball is 4-0
The Auburn-Lewiston YMCA 3rd/4th grade girls’ travel team improved to 4-0 with an impressive 52-6 win over River Valley which saw all ten players score. Jenna Shea lead the way with 14 points. Alexis Creaser controlled the boards and scored 10 points. Hope Fontaine had eight points and Abby Giroux scored 6 points while Elizabeth […]
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Celtic music to fill Chocolate Church
BATH — Richard Wood and Gordon Belcher will present their blazing Prince Edward Island Celtic at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 18, in the Annex of the Chocolate Church Art Center, 804 Washington St. Audiences will be taken on ride jigs and reels, strathspeys and hornpipes, and beautiful airs. Wood’s fiddle and infectious melodies complement Belcher’s versatile […]
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Moose wanders into Alaska hospital building
ANCHORAGE, Ala. (AP) — A moose wandered into a hospital building in Alaska’s largest city Monday — and Stephanie Hupton was ready to capture the visit with her phone camera. Hupton works in billing at a physical therapy office inside a building attached to Alaska Regional Hospital in Anchorage. When a patient mentioned security staffers were […]
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Greatness never looked like this
President Trump’s promise to make America great again seems to be working about as well as his pledge that Mexico would pay for the new border wall that he also promised. America’s debt has grown dramatically under the Republican president and a Republican-controlled government whose politicians have long campaigned on the assertion that they spend […]
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Euro still vulnerable 20 years later
WASHINGTON — On its 20th birthday, the best that can be said of the euro — the European currency used by 19 countries — is that it has survived. Two decades after being introduced in 1999, it has not achieved its central goals: increasing economic growth and strengthening public support for European political institutions. In […]