WEST FARMINGTON — Franklin County Soil & Water Conservation District invited Commissioner Whitcomb and the USDA — NRCS Assistant State Conservationist, Pauline Pare to attend its 66th annual meeting, public super and silent auction.
April 2013
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Ice out contest ticket available until April 15
PHILLIPS — The Third Annual Toothaker Pond Ice Out Contest is officially open. Participant can register a prediction(s) for $2 a ticket. Tickets are available at Phillips Hardware, 5K Pizza and Camden National Bank. Dora Dill and her daughter, Celeste Reid, are also selling tickets. They may be reached at 639-2238 or 779-7822.
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Sisters to talk about fashion business
PITTSFIELD — The Mid-Maine Community Forum will feature Pittsfield sisters and business partners Jill and Jolene McGowan. They will present Sisters in the Fashion Business at 6:30 p.m. Thursday at the First Universalist Church of Pittsfield, on the corner Easy and Main streets.
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Maine Principals’ Association Award: Worster honored by Jackman Principal
JACKMAN — Evan Worster, of Jackman, a Forest Hills High School senior has been selected to receive the 2013 Principals’ Award. The award, sponsored by the Maine Principals’ Association, is given in recognition of a high school senior’s academic achievement and citizenship.
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Events set for Skowhegan library
SKOWHEGAN — The Skowhegan Free Public Library will host the following April activities:
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ON BASEBALL: In Bogaerts, Sox have a prospect
Standing in front of his locker in Fort Myers last week, Xander Bogaerts wanted to know about Maine weather. He saw the frightening pictures of recent snow at Hadlock Field.
Posted inOpinion
Think ethanol is environmentally friendly? Think again
America’s prairies are disappearing at the fastest rate since the 1930s’ “Dust Bowl.”
Posted inOpinion
Still a Republican after all these years
At the age of 12, I sat up late one night in 1960 to tape record Richard Nixon’s Republican presidential nomination speech. It was the start of a lifelong Republican affliction.
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Congress fears NRA more than constituents
And yet, after the carnage in December that killed 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn., the shootings of teenagers in Miami’s Overtown and Liberty City, the drive-by killing of a mother talking with a friend outside her home in Liberty City — after all of that and so much more from coast to coast — Congress still seems unable to ban assault weapons.
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NHL: Horton goal lifts Bruins
BOSTON (AP) — Nathan Horton broke a tie midway through the third period with his fourth goal in four games and the Boston Bruins beat the Ottawa Senators 3-2 with an aggressive attack that produced a season-high 50 shots Tuesday night.