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Dearborn, Farnsworth

VASSALBORO — Angela Marie Dearborn and Benjamin Andrew Farnsworth were married June 23, 2012, at the home of the groom’s mother and step-father, Rick and Kim St. Amand in Vassalboro.

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J.P. DEVINE: Summer Pepsi nights

July 1949: With the first paycheck from my summer job making plastic feet for shoe displays at the Johnson Shoe Company, I sauntered into the Velvet Freeze, near where the street car turned, and bought Pepsi-Colas and double orders of fries all around for the gang.

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Banks, Carpenter

HARVEST, Ala. — Tiffany Marie Banks and Ryan Keith Carpenter were united in marriage on June 23, 2012, at 1 p.m. at Ford’s Chapel United Methodist Church in Harvest, Ala. A reception followed at Asbury United Methodist Church in Huntsville, Ala. Rev. Calvin Havens officiated the ceremony.

Posted inLifestyle

Snooping girlfriend has a secret

I have a secret. I am in a 10-month long-distance relationship with a man who treats me like a queen, is very sweet to me and, though he has a ton of friends to do things with, makes lots of time for us to be together. Here’s the catch: While using his laptop, I saw that he had been reading messages from women on dating sites. When I called him on it, he told me that he was just curious and he “had nothing to hide,” but would stop looking. But of course my confidence in his fidelity was breached, so after a month of sleepless nights, I decided I needed to know just what was going on. I read his phone texts and saw that last month he had told his last girlfriend that she was the best thing that ever happened to him, and he still loved her. I also read he took a girl he dated before me to lunch. In his emails, I read where he had reconnected with a girlfriend from his teenage years, writing her long letters depicting me as only a casual friend and making tentative plans to meet this fall — this from a man who begs me to move in with him and who wants to know my whole family. I know I was wrong to snoop, but how can this be good for either one of us? Please help.

Posted inLetters to the Editor, Opinion

Where were all the marching bands?

Kudos to the Hallowell Community band for being in the Independence Day parade in Augusta. Other than a few really good Christian combos on floats, that was the only band in the parade. I admit it has been many years since I have seen a Fourth of July parade, but it made me wonder, do the high schools not have marching bands anymore? Maybe if the parade had a shorter route there might be a few marching bands with their rousing music in it. Again thanks to all who took part in the parade.