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Googling for namesakes — One editor’s (alligator) tale
With Internet search engines like Google, finding your namesake — or, more often, namesakes — takes less than a second. Among my 19,300 hits: Kathryn Skelton, business lawyer. Kathryn Skelton, bank executive. Kathryn Skelton, med student. Accomplished, dashing ladies all, I’m sure. When we poked around online a few weeks ago in the newsroom to […]
Gripes and Gushes
Gushes: National Geographic had a lovely article on the U.S. Postal Service now re-allowing coconuts to be mailed (write the address and put the stamp on the surface). Good for them! It was once forbidden. It also noted that pumpkins, driftwood, flip-flops, messages in sand-filled bottles all can be mailed via coconut method. — Anonymous […]
Facetime: R.J. Keller — Winthrop author is drawn to Lewiston’s contrasts
What is it about Lewiston that so engages the fiction writer? Stephen King goes there all the time. Local lawyer Jim Howaniec set his debut novel right there on Lisbon Street. And now there’s R.J. Keller, a rising author who couldn’t resist dropping her characters into the sometimes mean, sometimes charming town of Westville, a […]
Talk of the town
Did you know? That the Sun Journal has its own helium balloon for easy filling of balloons? Please imagine the remainder of this column in a really, really high voice. Scalawags Somewhere in the Twin Cities Friday, police were sent out to search for a suspect wearing a bandanna on his head and who looked […]
Road Trip: The Portland Flower Show — a shot of spring
Is it spring yet? It might feel like it with the mild winter we’re having, but we all know we still have to wait a little longer. If you’re in need of some flowers and spring beauty to lift your spirits, drive south and visit the Portland Flower Show March 7 through 11 at 58 […]
Hot shots: L-A’s popular pool leagues are bustling
Quick. What’s a popular winter sport in the L-A area that doesn’t require a love of frigid weather? That’s right: Pool (and not the kind that involves cannonballs and chlorine burn). To get some sense of the popularity of pool in Lewiston-Auburn, visit Rack ‘Em Up in Auburn on a Monday evening. A word to […]
Eats: No knockoff, this crock-off rocks!
The rules are simple: One entry per family Each entry MUST be cooked in a crockpot. You cannot vote for your own entry. This year, each entry had to include at least one of these four ingredients: — Mint — Kahlua — Buffalo meat — Shiitake mushrooms The challenge could stump a professional chef, but […]
Talk of the town
Westminster dog show Oh, that’s what that was? Thank God. I thought the girls on this year’s Victoria’s Secret fashion show had really let themselves go. The point after Thanks to the many, many, many of you who made helpful comments about my man purse and/or worth as a human being after a B-Section story […]