Embrace one of these unconventional ways to celebrate Valentine’s Day — with a sweetie or without For Valentine’s Day in three short days, sure, you could buy roses and heart-shaped chocolate. Or you could bait hooks and huddle around a hole in the ice, snuggling close in lawn chairs, touching base every so often to […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: Hanging with the Holiday Bargain Outlet
Looking for One Direction perfume? Or sweet deals on gourmet honey, fleece-lined rain boots and bottles of sparkling Perrier? Miss the shopping experience that was Caswell’s Liquidation Center? Well, welcome to the Holiday Bargain Outlet. Shopping Siren and Bag Lady started seeing commercials for the new discount shop on outer Main Street in Lewiston a […]
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Mystery photo for February 4, 2018
Mystery Photo for February 4, 2018 If you can identify where this photo was taken, contact us at [email protected] or call 207-689-2896 and leave a voice mail with your answer, your name, town and phone number. Correct entries will be eligible for a drawing for a $20 Hannaford Supermarkets gift card. Find the Mystery Photo […]
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Lewiston resident finds her true nature, helps others find theirs, as a Zen priest
As a freelance writer, you never know where an assignment will take you. You do your best to prepare by studying the subject beforehand and forming questions. You don’t have to be an expert; you just approach the topic with curiosity and openness. You listen, take notes and craft the story to the best […]
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Face Time: Former U.S. Ski Team coach Bob Harkins
Bob Harkins has always loved the outdoors, and pursued that love in his occupations, including a registered Maine guide, general manager of Mt. Abram ski area and a coach for the U.S. Ski Team. When he wasn’t instructing hopefuls for the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Harkins was also the director of athlete development, for […]
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In verse: Maine places and people
Produced by Dennis Camire This week’s poem is by Thomas Moore of Belfast. The poem is from his collection “The Bolt Cutters,” published by Hemlock Press. Maine Burial Plot By Thomas Moore Granite posts square a God’s acre, a tiny Plot of blueberries and asters beside a crushed- Stone drive to three new […]
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Mystery Photo for January 28, 2018
Mystery photo for Jan 28, 2018 If you can identify where this photo was taken, contact us at [email protected] or call 207-689-2896 and leave a voice mail with your answer, your name, town and phone number. Correct entries will be eligible for a drawing for a $20 Hannaford Supermarkets gift card. Find the Mystery Photo […]
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From atop Auburn's slippery Goff Hill, Bill Hamilton sees all
AUBURN — A word of advice for wintertime driving: If you see Bill Hamilton standing at the side of Goff Hill and waving his arms at you, mind your driving. He’s not just being friendly — Hamilton is trying to keep you from slipping and sliding into oblivion. Trust us, he knows plenty about the […]
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In verse: Maine places and people
Produced by Dennis Camire This week’s poem is Cassie Pruyn, a New Orleans-based writer, born and raised in Portland, Maine. A graduate of the Bennington Writing Seminars, she is the author of “Bayou St. John: A Brief History,” published by The History Press 2017, and “Lena,” winner of the Walt McDonald First-Book Prize in Poetry, […]
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Face Time: James Barrett, spreading whimsy through Widdershins
NORWAY – James Barrett, a Westbrook resident who recently opened an antique and vintage item store called Widdershins on Main Street here, said that when he began organizing his items and putting them on display, he was shooting for something “whimsical,” akin to something you’d “find on Diagon Alley” from the Harry Potter series. That […]