Valentine’s Day is right around the corner. Now, we know gift-giving can be hard. Sometimes it’s really hard. Some years, your spouse gives you a gift so unique and special it reminds you why you fell in love with them in the first place. Other times, their gift to you misses the mark so badly […]
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In a word: Into overtime with more football names
The Los Angeles Chargers got their name, the story goes, because team owner Barron Hilton liked the word for its affiliation with his new Carte Blanche credit card.
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Mapping the history of New England’s once-booming textile industry
USM’s Osher Map Library offers an exhibit on the Northeast’s textile mills, including Bates Manufacturing in Lewiston, whose economic power for 100 years changed life in scores of cities and towns.
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Mystery Photo for Jan. 29, 2023
Correctly guess where this photo was taken and you could win a $20 Hannaford Supermarket gift card.
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Mark LaFlamme: Boy, that snowman looks mad
Talk of the Town: Are you like me? Do you like to go out to shovel the yard at 3 a.m. and pull one over on Ma Nature and her cohorts?
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Naked and afoot?
Do you sometimes like to strip off your clothes and run around outside? Or have you in the past? We’d like to hear your best — or even your only — streaking stories for an upcoming feature in the Sun Journal. Given the subject matter, your current home town and first name will be fine. […]
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‘A passion for pets’: With animals needing good homes, there’s no dogging it at the Greater Androscoggin Humane Society
‘It’s such a teamwork environment that it’s more like a family around here, and I feel like we make a huge impact on not only our team’s lives, but the animals’ lives.’
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‘It’s me or the dog’: Sandy Graul adopts a(nother) pet
Nina the pit bull ‘put on the dog’ day after day without success. Finally, Sandy Graul had enough.
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In a word: What’s in a football team’s name?
A lot of animals, along with history, stereotypes and even gold prospectors, formed the foundation for many early professional football teams’ names.
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Face Time: Prince of Peace Pastor Daniel Greenleaf talks about his faith
‘I remember having a profound experience of the question of God. . . . It set me on a path of questioning faith, God, why is there something rather than nothing, why suffering and death?’