BETHEL — For the past 42 years, Nina Wheeler and her husband have been giving Christmas to families in the SAD44 area who are in need through their nonprofit program called Christmas for Families. Gifts which are donated by members of the community include, but are not limited too: quilts, hats, give warm clothes, socks, […]
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The best part of Christmas
What’s the best part of Christmas for you? Seeing the tree lit? A special cookie you don’t have all year until the holidays? The carols? License to buy stuff? A favorite movie? Giving to others? All the FOOD?!? Go ahead, you can say it: The presents. Or is it simply having your family together? Whatever […]
Share your Christmas tradition
We don’t know if you’ve heard, but Christmas is heading this way. With the big holiday just weeks down the road, we wanted to ask you readers about the Christmas traditions that matter the most to you. Maybe it’s as simple as tourtiere pie with the family while “Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer” plays on […]
Christmas Parade, Festival of Trees returning to Oxford Hills
The traditional holiday events will be held Thanksgiving weekend.
Augusta West Kampground prepares a massive, nearly mile-long Christmas lights display
Winthrop campground owner Kale Malmsten said he plans to keep the display up from late November to just after New Year’s.
Lewiston gets on board with worldwide ‘Christmas Eve Jingle’
City officials are hoping to rally local residents behind a global movement to ring bells for two minutes on Christmas Eve as a way for communities to come together during an especially lonely year.