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A sixth sense: These people say they have it. Do you?

When I was a boy of 8 or 9, I had a dream that I met a pretty girl on the beach. So powerful was this dream, I was still looking for that girl more than a decade later. I knew her name. I knew what she looked like. The dream had felt so authentic, […]

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Bates College director finds plenty of friendliness, adventure in Maine

Darby Ray wasn’t looking for a change when Bates College came calling. But the opportunity to be director at the school’s Harward Center for Community Partnerships was too good to pass up, so last summer she, her husband and their two children moved up from Mississippi. Maine was already partly in her blood. “The generation […]

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Summer bulbs and early vegetables

Spring’s magical earth truly displays its most wonderful colors and sweet scents as April turns into May and June. The bright yellow forsythia reflect the sunshine. Daffodils and tulips wave in the breeze, and the tiny white wild plum blossoms smell so sweet and delicious. I love their aroma and know when the backyard wild […]

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Night life for the week of May 12

Some events require tickets or are subject to other limitations. If in doubt, we recommend you contact the venue. Night Life listings must be e-mailed to [email protected] and received no later than Monday. Tonight Film: Room 327, 5 and 8 p.m., Frontier, Brunswick Sunday Night Dance Party with Steve Colella, 8 p.m., Mixers, Sabattus Open […]

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Buried pleasure

You can often find Donna Arsenault in a cellar hole. Gary Baril can be found roaming old settlements. They’re searching for history with modern technology, and if the historic remnants they find are valuable, so much the better. Arsenault and her husband, Joe, as well as Baril and hundreds of other Maine “detectorists” regularly scour […]

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The New Gloucester Village Store

Most folks have childhood memories of particular foods that soothed the soul when they were under the weather. In my children’s case, it was the chicken soup that our nurturing neighbor, Judy Coggeshall, made. The soup looked innocent enough with the usual cast of characters, but it always tasted like a magic potion with a […]

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Tim Stretton — Lewiston USM grad has sights set on foreign service

Tim Stretton, a 2009 Lewiston High School graduate, graduated from the University of Southern Maine yesterday, May 11. One of his claims to fame was racking up a lot of college credit while in high school through Lewiston’s Early College program. He worked his way through college as a full-time assistant manager at Burger King […]