Two interesting meetings of the Auburn and Lewiston Reform Club were held Sunday. Jonas Edwards was the principal speaker in the afternoon. At both meetings 20 young men of the two cities signed the pledge. The club is in a good financial condition and is doing it’s work helping the cause of temperance.• While walking […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) – Sarah Jessica Parker and her gal pals have not lost their sex appeal.The big-screen “Sex and the City” – reuniting Parker and TV co-stars Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis and Cynthia Nixon – strutted to a $55.7 million opening weekend, far exceeding Hollywood’s box office expectations.That was nearly twice the forecast by […]

PORTLAND – Castlebay, a popular Celtic and Maritime folk duo, will perform at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 11, at Blue Cafe. Julia Lane and Fred Gosbee take audiences on a journey through time and across the Atlantic with old and new songs and stories in the Celtic tradition.Vocals are supported with award-winning Celtic harp, guitar, […]

FORT WORTH, Texas – Like most little girls, Fort Worth resident Susan Smith spent happy childhood hours digging through her mother’s jewelry box. But one particular piece held her memory: a carved-shell cameo of a young woman, tousled hair piled on her head.Smith’s father had given it to her mother in 1929 just as they […]

Adam, born in 1991, is a young man who likes track, basketball, video games and being outdoors when the weather is warm. Like most teenage boys, his interests are varied and change frequently. Right now, he likes to play his GameBoy, listen to all kinds of music and hopes to join the military when he […]

Q. My deck boards are made of recycled plastic that won’t splinter or rot, but they have developed a number of dark stains that I assume are mildew. I want to clean the deck but there are many plants around it that might be harmed by some deck cleaners. How can I clean it up […]

Good morning. Well, here we are on the first day of June. I don’t know if this happens to you, but I wait so long for warm weather and then it seems to just go so fast you lose it. I thought I still had a couple of weeks left in May. Oh well, at […]

With sewing becoming the new knitting, quilting is sure to follow in popularity. “The Quilter’s Catalog” (Workman Publishing, $18.95) by Meg Cox, is a one-stop shop.The first part of the book includes an extensive history of quilting. I was marveling at the journalistic qualities of the author’s writing until I read on the publisher’s Web […]

CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DAY: Alanis Morissette, 34; Lisa Hartman Black, 52; Morgan Freeman, 71; Andy Griffith, 82Happy Birthday: This year, there is money to be made through investments, real estate and for good deeds you have already done. Common sense, intuition and a willful spirit will put you ahead of the crowd. Your desire […]

Almost as predictable as getting a tie for Father’s Day is getting at least one destined for the back of the closet, be it covered in penguins or wide enough to top a flagpole.But choosing a good tie doesn’t have to be an exercise in luck. The answer lies in mixing a bit of the […]