Duck! So, I was happily riding my motorcycle out in the boonies of Minot, or possibly Buckfield, when I spotted two huge ducks at the side of the road. Now, you may think of ducks as innocuous creatures, but when you’re doing 55 on a bike, you definitely don’t want Daffy and co. waddling out […]
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Photo Album: Square dancing at Sherwood Heights Elementary School
In square dancing, partners change several times during the course of a single dance, eventually finding their way back to their main partners.
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In a word: Terms that are befuddling many Americans
Push p whenever you can, and try not to get cheugy with it.
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‘Get dirty going fast:’ Grown-up toys and the ‘kids’ who play with them
More adults have toys, or at least admit to it. One possible reason: With calamity seemingly just around the next corner, if we don’t have something to occupy our minds now and then, why we might go collectively mad, and there’s no fun in that at all.
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Face Time: Trish Hotham and Barb Arsenault — Lithuanian Club members honoring their heritage
The Lithuanian Heritage Club of Rumford will hold its annual Lithuanian picnic on Sept. 17 at Black Mountain of Maine after a two-year break due to the pandemic.
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Mystery Photo for Sept. 4, 2022
Correctly guess where this photo was taken and you could win a $20 Hannaford Supermarket gift card.
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Mark LaFlamme: Slow down, cowboy
Once in a lifetime I’m not one to brag, but I happen to be in possession of a rare photo of a hot air balloon floating over Lewiston. Believe you me, these types of pictures are not easy to come by, but I’m a journalist, by gum, and I tracked one down. Give me a […]
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In a word: Isograms, pangrams and even more word tricks
‘Mr. Jock, TV quiz PhD, bags few lynx’ is considered the perfect pangram because it uses each letter only once.
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Mystery Photo for Aug. 28, 2022
Correctly guess where this photo was taken and you could win a $20 Hannaford Supermarket gift card.
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Face Time: Sarah Cummings — Keeping a Finnish musical tradition alive
The West Paris music teacher has written one of the few books in English on how to play the kantele, a traditional folk instrument from Finland, and teaches her middle school students how to play the string instrument.