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Winthrop Sidewalk Art Festival to be held this weekend
WINTHROP — Painters, potters, photographers, jewelry makers, fabric artists, basket weavers and fine craftsmen will descend upon downtown Winthrop during the 31st Winthrop Sidewalk Art Festival from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 18. Sponsored by the Winthrop Lakes Region Chamber, the annual summer festival will also offer live music, lobster rolls, barbecues, homemade […]
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Love is the best present to give grandson
DEAR ABBY: We have three grandchildren and are due to make our annual visit. Two of the children are easy to plan for, and we have good relationships with them. The third is a 12-year-old boy with Down syndrome, and we struggle with how to deal with him — what to do and what to […]
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Face Time: Jessica Taylor on tapping and mindfulness
Jessica Taylor A few years ago, Jessica Taylor felt like she couldn’t get out of her own way. She was a nurse with a great career and family, but she procrastinated, especially those things she didn’t like to do, and it frustrated her. Someone suggested she try “tapping,” a stress-reduction technique that calls for finger […]
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Face Time: Matthew Elie, the cop who sings
Lead singer for Civil Disturbance, Matt Elie, during a recent practice jam with his band. To watch a video of a song from their upcoming release, visit sunjournal.com (Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal) When Matthew Elie was in the second grade, his teacher asked the class to draw what they wanted to be when they grew up. […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: Kmart smart
Good news, everyone! Kmart is sticking around. At least the one in Auburn. At least for right now. Huzzah! Kmart is one of those places that’s easy to take for granted because it’s just always been there. Like your grandmother’s kitchen. But with less lemon cake and more Craftsman tool sets. So this week, Shopping […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: These are a few of our Favorite Things
Just to put it out there, we’re not like Oprah in many, many ways — that’s a high fabulousity bar to set — but we, too, have Favorite Things. Things that make us laugh. Things that make us feel cozy. Things that make cleaning the toilet 95 percent less awful — and heck yeah, that’s […]
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How to save money on your pet's medical care
LEWISTON — When Olivia the cat started having violent seizures multiple times a week, the vet prescribed the anticonvulsant Keppra. It helped. A bit. When Jackie and Victor Leclerc could get Olivia to take it — because, you know. Cats. At one point, she was on the highest dose possible and getting pills forced on […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: Stick a fork in it
We’ll be perfectly honest: Bag Lady and Shopping Siren have never cooked squirrel. Never had the urge to until … well, no, we can’t say “now” because we still don’t have the urge. (Mostly we’d love a squirrel as a pet, not dinner.) But if we did, we could cook it, and we could cook […]
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Open Book Players meander through Gardiner history
GARDINER — The Open Book Players will present “Tilbury Town Chronicles…A Random Meander Through Gardiner’s Past” on Saturday, Dec. 2, at 7:30 p.m. andSunday, Dec. 3, at 2 p.m. at Johnson Hall. This production is a compilation of historical facts interwoven with some “theatrical” fiction narrated by a witty (and ageless) Gardiner resident, Titus Toomey, played […]