AUBURN — Curbside residential trash and recycling will not be collected on Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, Nov. 26. Trash and recycling can be dropped off at Mid-Maine Waste Action Corp. at 110 Goldwaite Road from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 27, and from 8 a.m. to noon on Saturday, Nov. 28. Trash and […]
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Posted inLetters
S. Paine: Retailers getting greedy
I remember a day when Sundays and holidays were special days to spend with family, going to church and being able to relax and not worry about work. Because of the Maine blue laws, retailers get three holidays off a year (barely that on Thanksgiving Day). Corporate greed continues to push the envelope on the […]
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Cal Thomas: Tis the season to be thankful
If Thomas Jefferson could be faulted for one thing in composing the Declaration of Independence, it might be his inclusion of the words “the pursuit of happiness” in the text. Happiness is a vapor that cannot be grasped; a temporary feeling based on transitory circumstances akin to the euphoria of a full-on sugar rush. Happiness […]
Posted inMaine, sj-web
Power back for most CMP customers after Thanksgiving storm
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Central Maine Power said Saturday afternoon that all but 469 customers have their electricity back in the aftermath of the Thanksgiving storm that at some point left more than 157,000 homes and businesses in the dark. The utility says most of the customers that are still without power are located in […]
Posted inNation / World, sj-web
N.Y. dinner puts wealthy and homeless at same tables
NEW YORK — Some well-off Manhattan residents paid $100 Friday for the honor of eating a candlelit holiday dinner with homeless people at a church, an intersection of two worlds that left one down-on-his luck man thinking the seemingly impossible. “What if a love connection happened tonight between the haves and the have-nots?” 44-year-old Craig […]
Posted inMaine
Maine skiers revel in ‘White Friday’
NEWRY — While shoppers rushed to stores early Friday to cash in on the first of the holiday-season deals, Maine skiers and snowboarders were flocking to the slopes to enjoy extra-early, extra-good snow conditions, thanks to a storm that walloped the region Wednesday night. “This is the best conditions have been for Thanksgiving Day weekend […]
Posted inOxford Hills
‘Good company’: 90 people turn out for Thanksgiving at the Paris fire station
PARIS — Lolalee Dillingham and her husband, Gordon, were going to drive to Litchfield for Thanksgiving until the snow struck Wednesday night. Betty Davis had planned to eat with extended family until they decided not to host it. She reached out to her pal, Myrtle Cadenelli, who otherwise would have eaten alone. The four friends […]
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A. Elze: Much to be thankful for
While the U.S. celebrates the 393rd anniversary of the first Thanksgiving, I pause and give thought to what I am thankful for. Of the people who came over on the Mayflower, only half lived to celebrate that first Thanksgiving. On the whole, Americans take for granted many things that many in the world would greatly […]
Posted inAdvertiser Democrat, Oxford Hills
Donated dinners delivered to needy families in Fryeburg area
FRYEBURG — Turkey dinners have been delivered to dozens of needy families throughout southern Oxford County by members of the town’s police, fire and rescue departments. “Citizens were extremely grateful for receiving the baskets and, in some cases, had tears,” police Chief Joshua Potvin said in a statement Tuesday after the deliveries were made. Donations […]