Birch bark wedding cakes, black wedding cakes, cheese cakes and even panna cotta are among the requests she’s creating as couples go for unique offerings.
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Die-hard horseshoe players keep pitching through the winter
For four winter months, the Maine Indoor Horseshoe Courts in the Pepperell MillI in Lewiston is the home of a typically summer sport and a big ‘horseshoe family.’
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Eugenia Last Sagittarius: Protect your reputation and your position
CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DAY: The Weeknd, 30; Elizabeth Olsen, 31; Ice-T, 62; LeVar Burton, 63. Happy Birthday: Invest in yourself. Seize every opportunity to step into the limelight and promote what you have to offer. Don’t sit back and wait when you should be pushing your way to the front. Your happiness depends on […]
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Dear Abby: She’s feeling left out of friends’ circle
DEAR ABBY: My husband and I are friendly with two other couples whose children are friends with ours. We live in a fairly small community, and the couples met and began socializing because my husband and I introduced them. It started out with board game nights, progressed to potlucks and holiday events, then eventually a […]
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Mystery Photo for February 16, 2020
Guess correctly and have a chance to win a $20 Hannaford gift card.
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Face Time: Renee Strange-Farnham — organizing I do’s
The Mechanic Falls event planner founded Strange Events five years ago.
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Seasonal breakdown of 2019’s weather highlights
WINTER Maine’s winter of 2019 was low on drama. Snow, sleet and rain punctuated the three-month period January to March, but no one storm was extraordinary. All that precipitation made January the wettest since 1999 with 5.53 inches of all varieties. The winter months also saw some notable warming, with Jan. 1 and 24 both […]
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2019 record breakers
The following records were broken in Portland in 2019 for the specific day noted: January No records set or tied February Feb. 5: 62 degrees — warmest high temperature Feb. 5: 46 degrees — warmest average temperature Feb. 8: 40 degrees — warmest average temperature Feb. 13: 6 degrees — smallest temperature range March […]
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Love is in the air — along with a whole lot of crazy
Spring forward Some wizard of math and astronomical calculations just alerted me that daylight savings is less than a month away. We are that close to springing forward, my friends, and ain’t that an injection of hope in the buttocks of winter despair! What does it all mean? Nothing, really? I just wanted to use […]
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July heat, October wind highlight Maine’s 2019 weather
“Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.” John Ruskin, art patron, watercolorist, prominent social thinker and philanthropist of the Victorian era, wrote these words decades ago and his observation still holds true today. Anyone […]