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Local publishing company hopes to promote work of volunteers, nonprofits 0

January 27, 2012 • Category: Features

FARMINGTON – A local publishing company specializing in poetry is hoping to draw attention to itself and other nonprofit organizations with an appearance at the state house next month. Alice James Books has been selected to appear at the 9th Annual Nonprofit Day on Feb. 2, along with 12 other Maine organizations that represent a [...]

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TAKE HEART: A conversation in poetry (0)

Mekeel McBride lives in Kittery and teaches in the MFA program at the University of New Hampshire. In her poem she shows us what we have missed in the winter trees we observe every day.

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New restaurant preparing to open (21)

FARMINGTON – At Tuesday night’s meeting, selectmen welcomed a new restaurant and pub, set to open in the downtown in about a week. The Roost Pub & Wingery’s owner, Jim Coleman, who owns two other Roosts in Orono and Waterville, said he hopes to open next week. Fourteen people have been hired with two or [...]

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Sandy River Charitable Foundation pledges $5,000 to match fuel oil benefit dance funds (0)

FARMINGTON – The Sandy River Charitable Foundation announced that it will match receipts from next Friday’s Fuel Oil Assistance Fund Benefit Dance up to $5,000, effectively doubling the impact of already strong ticket sales for Feb. 3 dance/evening of entertainment.

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Richard Alton Bredeau (0)

PHILLIPS – Richard Alton Bredeau, 76, died peacefully at his home in Phillips on Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2012. He was born in Kingfield, the son of Alton Bredeau of Canada and Evelyn Ellis Abbott. He graduated from Phillips High School in 1953 and on Feb. 18, 1956 he married his childhood sweetheart Betty R. Huntington [...]

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Spruce Mountain wins 14th, beating Mt. Abram in Salem (0)

PLAYING IT TIGHT: Mt. Abram’s Ethan Boyd (21) protects the ball from Spruce Mountain’s Tyler Gervais, Thursday night in Salem, during a boys high school basketball game. Spruce Mountain won its 14th game of the season beating Mt. Abram, 84-31. (Photos by the Distant Future)

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