LEWISTON — Buffy Dumont is a notary public, an actor for Monmouth Community Players, a leadership trainer and coach, and that’s not all. We also hear she makes a mean snow angel. Name: Buffy Dumont Age: 38 Lives: Lewiston, proudly raised and educated in Monmouth What makes a good leader? I love this question because […]
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Memories remain vivid long after Peck’s Department Store loaded up its last sleigh.
Once upon a time, if you told any kid from Lewiston that Santa Claus lived at the North Pole, that kid would have laughed in your face. Every kid in Lewiston knew that Santa lived at Peck’s department store on Lisbon Street. Before 1982, when a combination of the depressed local economy and the big […]
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Sights Unseen: One high-end hauler
The United States economy depends on trucks to deliver nearly 70 percent of all freight transported annually in the U.S., accounting for $671 billion worth of manufactured and retail goods, according to the website truckinfo.net. They estimate that 15.5 million trucks operate in the U.S., 2 million of them tractor-trailers. To operate them, the nation […]
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Night Life calendar for the Week of November 25
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 Ballet: An Evening with Kylian, Inger, Walerski, 7 p.m., Frontier, Brunswick Sunday Night Dance Party with Steve Colella, 8 p.m., Mixers, […]
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Road Trip: Fire up your sleigh and get giving
With exactly one month — 30 days — to go before Christmas, we present a special Road Trip this month filled with the spirit of giving and simplicity that are at the heart of the holiday. Black Friday is behind us. Ahead, thoughtful ways to give to the many around us who are facing tough […]
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Face Time: Lee Margolin — Harrison brewery owner talks beer, eels and neuroscience
Lee Margolin of Harrison is the man behind Maine’s newest brewery: Pennesseewassee Brewing, a small-batch operation that runs out of a converted in-law apartment at his home. The Lewiston native has been brewing as a hobby for more than 20 years and has worked in neuroscience for most of his life. He still works in […]
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Dancing like the Stars: The ballroom’s busy these days as dancers catch the next wave of popularity. King Louis XIV would understand.
Ballroom dancing has undergone a change in the last decade. It’s not the stodgy, rigidly formulaic pastime that helped our great-grandfathers impress our great-grandmas. Nor is it, the awkwardly attempted motions that you remember (painfully) from weddings when you were a kid. No, ballroom is experiencing a revival – or at least that’s what “the […]
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Reporter query: Tell us about a time you took a big leap.
That time you got married after knowing him three weeks. That time you launched a business by draining every credit card you had. That time you bought a one-way ticket because, what adventure awaits? We’re talking about your Big Leap, and we’d love to hear about it. Inspire. Laugh. Grimace. Share your Big Leap. Please […]