So, your husband’s snoring got so bad, you had to resign yourselves to sleeping in separate rooms. Or maybe it was the wife’s nighttime thrashings that forced you to look into sleeping in separate beds. When it comes to sleeping with the one you love, sometimes adjustments have to be made to maintain domestic tranquility. […]
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Pilgrimage to Holy Land ends in ‘amazing’ hand-carved Nativity and altar at Lewiston’s basilica
In April of 2023, a group of three-dozen worshipers from the Prince of Peace Parish traveled to the Middle East to visit various sites in the Holy Land. What they came back with is truly epic.
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Drones: Ignoring privacy laws can get you in trouble
Three days after a drone flight, Carl Shane was visited by Androscoggin County sheriff’s deputies who advised him he might have broken privacy laws.
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From ‘it changed our lives’ to cruel Nazis, readers sing the praises and pain of childhood music lessons
While they’re often positive experiences, area readers say music lessons can also instill character and teach lessons of a whole different kind.
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Goodbye rocking chair, hello bar stool for these nice and naughty knitting lessons
Not only is Tyla Davis’s local bar-based knitting class more fun, it’s more successful at teaching the skill, say participants.
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Keamy — Greene engagement
Elena Keamy, of San Francisco, the daughter of Eric and Maria Keamy of Coronado, California, and Jamie Greene, also of San Francisco, the son of Chuck and Gail Greene of Novato, California, announce their engagement. The future bride is a graduate of Bowdoin College with a bachelor of arts degree in English and environmental studies. […]
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Swart-Pulk engagement
Michael and Laurie Swart of Lewiston are happy to announce the engagement of their daughter Jaime Eileen Swart to Andy Pulk, son of Scott and Linda Pulk of Poland. The future bride graduated with a bachelor’s degree in business management from SUNY Canton in New York. She is currently teaching technology in the Turner school […]
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They’re erratic, ornery, finicky and aloof. And so much more. Our cats and why we love them.
Readers say their feline friends provide companionship, comic relief, therapy and love. And as one reader noted: ‘On cold nights (they’re) much better than a hot water bottle because they don’t cool off overnight.’
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Gratuities: Have we reached a tipping point?
Mainers say tipping has gotten out of hand. Many blame COVID for causing big change in the business of small change.
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Still love books after all these years?
All over the place lately, we’ve been finding little book nooks – random shelves, often in remote places, where collections of books are placed for eager readers to borrow or trade. Print books, it appears, are still the favorite among many readers in spite of the prevalence of Kindle and other e-book gadgets. It makes […]