Theatre Arts Day Camp instructor Lucy Rioux, right, teaches students forming a crocodile how to clamp the jaws recently during a session of the weeklong program held at the Carry Ricker School in Litchfield. Students from elementary to high school age have enrolled in the camp, taught by Rioux and Cindy Turcotte during the last […]
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HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS: Preseason scramble begins for teams
So much to do and so little time in which to do it. With regular season games less than three weeks away, high school athletes in golf, football, cross country, soccer and field hockey opened preseason practices Monday.
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Bethel wants to tap into natural gas line
Five miles from Bethel, a natural gas line that connects a Rumford power plant with the Portland Natural Gas Transmission System crosses under Route 26.
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Bluegrass Festival returning next week
LITCHFIELD — The Blistered Fingers Bluegrass Festival picks up again this month.
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379 years later, time for some new farming blood
DOVER, N.H. — It’s a good season for the beloved sweet corn on the 379-year-old Tuttle Farm. It also looks good for the crops that weren’t there a year ago, produced by a group of visiting young farmers — eggplant, peppers, pumpkins and sunflowers.
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300,000 Mainers would change districts under GOP plan
AUGUSTA — Republicans and Democrats introduced vastly different proposals Monday to redraw Maine’s two congressional districts.
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Former town clerk cites poverty
AUGUSTA — A former Manchester town clerk who spent more than a year in prison for forging residents’ signatures is penniless and cannot afford to pay $80,000 owed to the town’s insurer.
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Rough terrain hindered rescuers in hiker’s death
ATTEAN TOWNSHIP — Local Jackman-Moose River firefighters were the first official aid workers to reach a man who collapsed while hiking Sally Mountain on Friday.
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Camp kids in crash OK
Five children from a Belgrade summer camp were treated Sunday for minor injuries when a van they were traveling in rear-ended a school bus, also from the camp, on U.S. Route 1 in front of Splashtown USA.