I never thought of making pie as “easy,” but I have many recollections of watching my mother whip them up like nobody’s business. She would often say, “It’s just as easy to make more than one.” Often I would come in from school to find her rolling out pie crust, slicing apples or sorting berries. […]
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Doughnuts are on a rampage; they must be stopped
Doughnuts, you have gone too far. Not long ago, we were your biggest champions. We cheered when you evolved into the scrumptious, flakey cronut, and when you multiplied up and down the West Coast through the Blue Star chain, which brought slick, beautiful rings from Portland, Oregon, to Los Angeles. We welcomed such top-tier bakeries […]
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New baby monitors: Peace of mind and questions
One night last fall, Victoria Rodriguez, a pediatric hospitalist at the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, was paged from the emergency room for a consultation on a case. An ER doctor had evaluated a 4-week-old infant, and although he couldn’t find anything wrong with the baby, he hesitated to send the […]
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”Witchfinder’s Sister’ about effects of unbridled power
The Witchfinder’s sister By Beth Underdown Ballantine. 312 pp. $28 It would seem that nothing more can be said — or even imagined — about the Salem witch trials. We get it: The innocents were used as scapegoats for society’s ills. But in her novel, “The Witchfinder’s Sister,” Beth Underdown has found a fresh approach, […]
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Mystery Photo for May 14
Mystery Photo for May 14, 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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‘It’s never going to be overdeveloped’
The seeds of conservation and preservation have taken strong root on a ‘special’ 500-acre, 227-year-old farm in Lisbon that’s now up for sale. LISBON — Patrick Arras Jr. started the farm by squatting there, eventually paying $1 an acre when the state of Massachusetts threatened to kick him off. Two hundred years later, Ella Mae and […]
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Roofing the Basilica: The sky’s the limit
Henry Hoffman, right, holding the fedora, stands at the top of a spire of the Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul in this 1950 photo, 168 feet above the ground. Hoffman was the treasurer at that time for Hahnel Brothers roofers of Lewiston. The workers, who are unidentified in the photo, were installing lead-coated copper […]
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Face Time: Lewiston’s Lauren Lessard and her Paralympic coaching dreams
Lauren Lessard wants to work with paraplegic athletes, maybe even someday at the U.S. Paralympic Games. On Saturday, the Lewiston native graduated from the University of Southern Maine with a degree in exercise science. This fall, she’s headed off to Springfield College to study for a master’s degree in therapeutic recreation. Name: Lauren Lessard Age: 22 Lives: Lewiston What initially […]
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Mt. Blue staging ‘Little Shop of Horrors’
FARMINGTON — Alan Mencken and Howard Ashman’s satirical musical “Little Shop of Horrors” will be staged at 7 p.m. May 11, 12 and 13 in the Bjorn Auditorium on Mt. Blue Campus. The play tells the story of meek flower shop assistant Seymour who pines for co-worker Audrey. He discovers an unusual plant he names […]
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The design of the cross
A view from the air highlights the cross shape of the Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul. Celebrating the Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul LEWISTON — With approximately 600 churches and civic buildings already on his resume and nearing the end of his career, Boston architect Timothy G. O’Connell wanted to build a grand […]