From high-tech gadgets to essential clothing, here are some suggestions for gifts that hunters will find useful.
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Posted inLocal & State
For shop clerks and DJs, it’s the most wonderful time for their ears
Incessant Christmas music started earlier than usual this year, but even people who have to listen to it nonstop don’t mind.
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Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books, Food & Dining, Maine Authors
At once fascinating, fun and scholarly, ‘Gin’ distills appreciation for an enduring quaff
Shonna Milliken Humphrey has written a memoir, a novel and now an ode to gin.
Posted inLocal & State, News
Getting vaccinated is just the first step for front-line hospital staff
After caring for COVID patients for nine months, the first ICU and ER workers inoculated at Maine Med are doing fine and hoping everyone keeps wearing masks and gets vaccinated, too, as soon as possible.
Posted inOutdoors, Sports
Birding: Far-flung visitor has been putting on a show
The rock wren first sighted in Ogunquit in late November is commonly found in the Western half of North America.
Posted inColumns, J.P. Devine, Local & State, Morning Sentinel
J.P. Devine: The lady in white
This Christmas, as thousands of nurses and doctors in blue scrubs hold the hands of the millions of the dying, J.P. Devine is thinking of his mother in her starched white dress and cap, bringing a cupcake home.
Posted inBicentennial
On this date in Maine history: Dec. 20
Dec. 20, 2018: The Portland Press Herald reports that Efficiency Maine, a state agency whose mission is to help Maine residents use energy more efficiently, has contracted with a California company for the installation of seven electric-vehicle charging stations along Maine highways from the southern part of the state to the Quebec border. The company, […]
Posted inGreg Kesich, Op-Eds, Opinion
The View From Here: Vaccination needs to win over skeptics
A coronavirus vaccine won’t work unless almost everyone takes it. Will they?