Produced by Dennis Camire This week’s poem is by Carl Little of Somesville. His most recent book is “Ellsworth Suite.” To the Lady Who Sets Out Lawn Ornaments Every Morning By Carl Little Alpha leader, how lost in thought you seem, placing black silhouettes of dogs wearing neck bandannas across the grass, arranging […]
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Mystery Photo for October 8, 2017
Mystery Photo for October 8, 2017 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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Experts rate the best handheld vacuums
For houses with kids or pets, a handheld vacuum is a near-necessity for crumbs or pet-hair pickup. “This is what you’re going to reach for when your kids spill cereal in the morning or you spill coffee grounds,” says Allison Bean, editorial director of the home website The Spruce. For smaller houses, studios or condos, […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: Fryeburg Fair, ho!
Between the six-packs of padded bras, the tiger-face leggings and the sweet maple cotton candy, I’m not even sure where to start. Maybe at the very beginning. In this column’s storied, 11-year history — can I be so bold as to call it storied? — we have yet to ever shop a fair. So it […]
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What the Basilica could have looked like
Celebrating the Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul The first St. Peter’s Church, built in 1872 where the Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul now stands, measured 32 feet across its nave and ran lengthwise 116 feet along Bartlett Street. It had a seating capacity of 800. As waves of French Canadians came over Maine’s […]
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'Every weekend if the weather cooperates'
A view of Cousins Island, left, and Littlejohn Island, right, from the causeway between them on Talbot Road. Moshier Island can be seen in the distance. Cousins, Littlejohn islands offer year-round, drivable, Casco Bay bounty Bring your bike. Bring a camera. And pack a lunch. This is the distillation of advice that my travel partner […]
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In verse: Maine places and people
This week’s poem is by Richard Foerster of Cape Neddick. His most recent book is “River Road,” published by Texas Review Press. Shorebirds in October By Richard Foerster The waves retreat, leaving a steam-rolled stretch down Long Sands Beach, where a sea-soaked Irish setter is chasing a flock of sandpipers. The dog thinks Go […]
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Face Time: John Lewis — Small-town cop, veteran, family man
John Lewis graduated from Telstar High School in Bethel in 2009. Since then, he’s been married, deployed to Afghanistan as a Marine, had two little girls, graduated from the Maine Criminal Justice Academy at the top of his class academically and is now serving as a patrol officer on the Norway Police Department. He has […]
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Be better than Betty Crocker
Make your own baking mixes In the 1950s, it was said that when an elderly woman died, the “flour and shortening” business lost a customer, while when a young woman married, the cake-mix industry gained one. In short, two constituencies: those who baked and those who faked. Today, there’s an audience that falls somewhere […]
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Mystery Photo for October 1
Mystery Photo for October 1, 2017 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 […]