To say that computers are everywhere is an understatement. Whether we’re working, playing, shopping or just relaxing, computers are probably playing some part. But it isn’t just our day-to-day existence that these brainy devices are affecting, they’re also changing the meanings of words. Consider this familiar pair of portmanteau words. “Bit” previously referred to a […]
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Mold, a blackened cell, water buckets and tales of headless skeletons: A tour of the 165-year-old Androscoggin County Courthouse
While the ghastly remains of a cell where a jail inmate may have burned alive is disturbing, it’s not the most troubling thing you’ll see on a tour of the quaint, but decrepit old building.
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Face Time: Chris L’Hommedieu — the man behind ‘Love Songs and Love Letters’
L/A Community Little Theatre’s ‘Love Songs and Love Letters’ will be available for viewing at 7 p.m. on Feb. 12, 13 and 14. The shows can be accessed through the L/A Community Little Theatre webpage at laclt.com
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Talk of the Town: My deep basso voice
Dollars and sense Oh, this is rich. Ever since I wrote a story about some local folks who received their stimulus checks in unsealed envelopes, I’ve been getting emails from people who want MY advice about their own financials. How should they go about inquiring about the status of their checks? How should they proceed […]
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Thomas-Golding wedding
Meagan Thomas and Kyle Golding are announcing their marriage. The bride is the daughter of Lawrence Thomas Sr. and Diane Thomas of Lisbon, and the groom is the son of John Golding II of Freeport. The bride is a 2012 graduate of Lisbon High School and a 2016 graduate of the University of Southern Maine with a bachelor of science degree in […]
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Robert and Eleanor Herrick to celebrate 69th wedding anniversary
About 76 years ago on a school playground in Brunswick, a young boy named Robert Herrick shared his box of raisins with a pretty little girl named Eleanor Whitten. Robert thought Eleanor was pretty special as he loved his raisins. Who would have guessed that many years later, on Feb. 9, 1952, this little boy […]
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Talk of the town: Cold as a what, now?
It’s cold I know it’s cold because EVERY SINGLE TIME I step outside, I declare: “Holy $#!@#! It’s !#@! cold!” That’s the scientific way to know for sure that it’s $#!@#! cold. This is exactly how Lord Kelvin, the physicist William Thompson, discovered in 1892 that it was $#!@#! cold outside his lab over there […]
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Togo: History’s most heroic dog spent his final years at Poland Spring
Famed for delivering life-saving medicine across the Alaskan wilderness in 1925, Togo, a lead sled dog, wound up in Maine. A statue to honor him at Poland Spring is in the works.
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Mystery photo for Jan. 31, 2021
Correctly guess where this photo was taken and you will be entered into a random drawing for a $20 Hannaford gift card.
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In a word: ‘Murder,’ ‘enormity’ and other words in the news
Have you ever listened to a news report or read the newspaper and been struck by the use of a particular word? Me too. In fact — probably no surprise to you here — it happens all the time to me. While I don’t exactly take notes, I often write down words and phrases when […]