The Phantom Punch at 50 Interactive guide to our stories, photos, audio and video | Audio: Listen to the radio broadcast from the fight | Video: Can you see the punch? | Interactive timeline of the fighters’ careers | Newspaper coverage & readers’ memories from 1965 On the night of Liston’s heavyweight title rematch against Muhammad Ali at Saint Dominic’s Arena, Mattor sat in the second […]
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Contest counts bulky waste in Auburn spring cleanup
AUBURN — The city will test to see how good residents are at estimating the weight of their trash with a new spring cleanup contest. Jaclyn Beebe, planner for the Auburn Public Services Department, said the city is taking guesses for how much bulky waste, in tons, residents leave at their curbs for city crews […]
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The Hot Corner: Seasons change. No, really, I think they might
Wake me up when the spring high school sports season arrives. You got that? No, don’t tell me it’s already here. I spoke with one high school baseball coach this week who told me in hushed, defeated tones that the pitcher’s mound was the only visible patch of earth on his low-lying diamond. I knew […]
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Mixed bag of weather expected for weekend
Be honest. You already put your shovels and ice scrapers away, didn’t you? Not to worry. The storm expected to slip into Maine on Saturday night isn’t forecast to be a killer. What it will be is wet, with snow changing to rain, which will change to sleet and then back to snow again, and […]
Posted inRiver Valley
New birds invade the pen as signs of spring emerge
The “dinosaurs” have invaded the goose pen. These wild turkeys help themselves to the cracked corn, bread crumbs and anything else I provide to my increasingly amorous flock. The turkeys — which I really like because they are just so different from any other bird, wild or domestic — seem to have found a home […]
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Women’s Center to welcome spring
LEWISTON — Spring IS coming and it will be celebrated at the women’s center with a potluck supper and singing circle on Friday, March 20. The evening begins at 5. Please bring a contribution to the meal. On Saturday, March 21, the center also will host a Quiet Day from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. […]