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.
2012
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.
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.
Alewives: Important species or invasive pest?
MILLTOWN, New Brunswick — It’s late in the alewives’ spring run, and overnight just five fish have climbed the fish ladder at the Milltown Dam, which spans the St. Croix River on the Maine-New Brunswick border.
TRUTH TEST: Same-sex hospital anecdotes dated
“In many states, same-sex couples that have domestic partnerships have been barred from a dying partner’s bedside, and denied the ability to say goodbye to the person they love.”
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.
Skaters hit the ice at Bank of Maine Ice Vault
HALLOWELL — Laura Blackstone slowly glided around the rink, her eyes and mind trying to soak in the experience of being one of the first skaters to step on the Bank of Maine Ice Vault ice.
It’s sheer lunacy to build station next to tracks
Anyone who will choose to build a police station on the blind side of an active railroad track must not have, while in school passed the course Common Sense 101. It is bad enough to have it on a one-way street as it is now, but to compound the issue by also having it on the back side of a railroad is sheer lunacy.
Enforcing health care law to be a mammoth task
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court’s decision to uphold most of President Barack Obama’s health care law will come home to roost for most taxpayers in about 2 1/2 years, when they’ll have to start providing proof on their tax returns that they have health insurance.
Morning Sentinel police log: July 8, 2012
IN ANSON, Friday, at 1:58 p.m., reported assault was investigated on Valley Road.