PORTLAND — The prospect of being discharged from St. Joseph’s Rehabilitation & Residence is emotionally painful for 86-year-old Rita Michaud.
August 2013
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No rest for starters
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — The final exhibition game is usually the time for first stringers to rest.
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Patterson making most of opportunity
ORONO — Tyler Patterson was dressed, taped and ready to go Wednesday afternoon, when a flash of lightning in a dark northern sky sent the University of Maine football team off Morse Field and into the Mahaney Dome for practice.
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St. Andrews gives visitors a taste of olden days
A scant half-hour drive east of the border crossing between Calais and St. Stephen in New Brunswick sits one of Canada’s oldest and best-preserved 18th-century towns and its oldest seaside resort.
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Healthy Community Coalition announces September schedule
FARMINGTON — The Healthy Community Coalition of Greater Franklin County recently announced its September schedule for Mobile Health Unit outreach events. Staff will offer services such as blood pressure and cholesterol checks, body composition analysis, information on cancer prevention, nutrition, physical activity and tobacco, one-on-one health counseling and Maine Breast and Cervical Health Program information and other health assistance programs.
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Bereavement support groups planned for area
WATERVILLE — The following groups are held at the Hospice Community Center, 304 Main St., with the exception of the Monday evening Belgrade group. All the groups are free to the public. To preregister, call Wanda Curtis at 873-3615.
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Winslow library talk to focus on health care
WINSLOW — A discussion, “The Affordable Care Act 101, Understanding the New Health Care Law,” is planned for 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 10, at Winslow Public Library.
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Signs of a season changing in the night sky
This month always marks the beginning of autumn for us in the northern hemisphere. That will happen at 4:44 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 22. That moment is further defined by the sun on its ecliptic path crossing over the celestial equator on a downward path. The vernal and autumnal equinoxes are also the only two days each year that the sun rises due east and sets due west everywhere on Earth except at the poles.
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Steering committee nominees sought
The Maine Food Strategy, a grassroots planning initiative to support a robust food economy and a thriving natural resource base in Maine, seeks nominations to its first steering committee by 5 p.m. Friday, Sept. 6.