Pipe works that provide drinking water to Lewiston and Auburn can be seen in the drinking water treatment and pumping station located on the east shore of Lake Auburn. Plant operator Dave Minkowsky can be seen on the right. Mary Jane Dillingham, water quality manager for Lewiston-Auburn, tests the quality of the drinking water in […]
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Face Time: Peter Ruby, disc golf entrepreneur
When Peter Ruby opened Sabattus Disc Golf in 2006, the game wasn’t exactly mainstream. Not a lot of families thought of flinging discs at a basket when they wanted an outing. Six years later, SDG is one of the most popular family-friendly courses in the state All because Ruby’s nephews thought he should check out […]
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Eats: Campsite cuisine — Take a canoe and eat well too.
Editor’s note: This week, we go outside the box and outside the kitchen and serve up a column by outdoorsman Matt LaRoche on outdoor cooking. When you are out on a canoe trip, you don’t have to be restricted to eating freeze-dried food cooked on a single-burner camp stove in order to have a decent […]
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Boxing it up: Graziano’s collection of boxing memorabilia up for sale
Daniel Buck of Sabattus stands with boxing memorabilia once displayed at Graziano’s Casa Mia restaurant in Lisbon. Among the items are two pair of boxing gloves used in a 1948 exhibition match between Joe Louis and Willie James in Lewiston, the ring card from the Muhammad Ali vs. Sonny Liston match in Lewiston and photographs […]
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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: Footnote, 6 and 8 p.m., Frontier, Brunswick Sunday Night Dance Party with Steve Colella, 8 p.m., Mixers, Sabattus Fiona Apple […]
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Maine ice cream maker to be featured on ‘The View’
BAR HARBOR — If you want to get a taste of one of the nation’s top five ice creams — according to ABC’s “The View” anyway — drive no farther than this coastal town and head to Mount Desert Island Ice Cream. Or if you’re trying to save gas, you could visit its satellite shop […]
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Eats: A ‘new’ old sauce — French Acadian bottles up a secret recipe
Not every family has access to old “secret recipes,” but Pete Morin, a 13th-generation Acadian, does. And fortunately he decided to share those secrets and spread the piquant joy. One of those recipes was a sauce that had its followers in northern Maine. Created by an uncle — the late Roger Morin — 58 years […]
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Deal with it differently: Can’t grow anything in that shaded space? Try tirella, Lady’s Mantle, ground-cover sedum — or a dragon
Good morning. I hope everyone enjoyed the Fourth of July. It always reminds me of how grateful I should be for so many things. We all have our ups and downs with politics; but, in the end, we still live in the greatest country on Earth. Watching parades, eating strawberry shortcake and coming together in […]