It was 50 years ago this year that David Footer designed his signature pattern for fly fishing, using two hooks, gold tinsel, peacock and guinea hen feathers, red and blue bucktail and yellow hackle. The story goes that, after having a friend tie the fly for him, Footer took it north to Quebec’s Broadback River […]
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Fall approaches but don’t turn your back on your garden flowers just yet
Good morning. The buses are running, the flowers of summer have gone as the New England asters show their pretty faces and the brown-eyed Susans are still showing their sunshiny colors. It must be fall. Ads are everywhere for pick-your-own apples and farm stands are loaded with the garden’s bounty. It is a beautiful time […]
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Gripes and Gushes
Gushes — Anonymous Anyone else find it odd that the French government (according to National Geographic magazine) has ordered a phaseout of the word “mademoiselle” in official government forms to identify an unmarried woman? I’m pleased the U.S. embraces “Miss” and “Ms.” — Anonymous Thanks to the people we see standing still, impatiently, a little […]
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Nightlife Calendar for the Week of Sept. 9
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 The Men of Cuffs and Collars and more, 6 p.m., Club Texas, Auburn Sun Sep 09 12 06:00 AM Sunday Night […]
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Face Time: Entertainer, arborist, engineer and proud father David Tardy
LEWISTON — David Tardy plays guitar in a band, spends sunny days as an arborist on Chebeague Island and helped design a famous rocket car. It’s a mix that might qualify him as Maine’s Buckaroo Banzai. Yet, his resume is broadening still. On the set of Buckfield native Michael Miclon’s “Richard³”, a comedic retelling of […]
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Eats: Forage Market — Graze to your heart’s content
If you happen to scroll through the comments — along with the daily menu postings – on Forage Market’s Facebook page, I am pretty sure one of two things will happen: Either your stomach will soon be growling or you’ll actually be headed down to its 180 Lisbon St. location for breakfast, lunch or perhaps […]
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Mobile messaging: Whether honoring loved ones or just getting flashy, car owners are personalizing their rides
Steve Breton wanted to make up with his daughter. So he adhered two 5-foot black vinyl dragons to the sides of her silver Dodge Neon. Olive branch accepted. Marie Levesque wanted to psych herself up ahead of a double mastectomy last year. She stuck a pink “Warrior” on the back of her black Jeep. “It […]
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Sights unseen: Temple Shalom
Temple Shalom is familiar to those who attend regularly, but few people who are not of the Jewish faith have been inside the temple on Bradman Street in Auburn. Like every house of worship, Temple Shalom has a large sanctuary used on High Holy Days, which fall this year from Sept. 16 through 26, and […]