AUGUSTA — The Zone 2 American Legion Baseball season began with a great pitching duel between Nate Veilleux of Post 51 and Augusta’s Ryan Minoty.
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Kinsey,Plourde
BELGRADE — Peggy (DuBois) Kinsey of Belgrade has announced the engagement of her daughter, Holly Lynn Kinsey of Belgrade to Charles Martin Plourde, son of Daniel and Katrina (Maroon) Plourde of China. Holly is also the daughter of the late Gary Kinsey.
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REVIEW: Women look for Caribbean heat in ‘Heading South’
In “Heading South,” Laurent Çantet, French filmmaker of Montreal and Paris, offers a moderately interesting trio of middle-aged women who have taken their libidos on vacation in Haiti in the ’70s.
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THEODORA KALIKOW: Gardening, with planning, planting, a lot like running a college
Recently I was contemplating my garden — actually I was crawling around in it, weeding, deadheading, picking up branches and doing miscellaneous chores.
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LITCHFIELD’S MIKE MOODY HEARD ADVENTURE WHEN HE ANSWERED THE CALL OF EVEREST
BY BETTY ADAMS Staff Writer Nearing the end of his five-year hitch in South Korea working for a defense contractor, a Litchfield man could no longer resist the siren call of Mount Everest. Mike Moody, 58, had already summitted a number of mountains in South Korea, including Halla-san, the highest one. And for a long […]
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BOOKS: Tom Clancy fans get a new hero
BY NICK OWCHAR Los Angeles Times “AGAINST ALL ENEMIES” By Tom Clancy with Peter Telep Putnam 756 pages, $28.95 The big news for the Tom Clancy brotherhood was the return of the Jack Ryans, father and son, last December in “Dead or Alive” — until then, the Ryan saga hadn’t made an appearance since 2003’s […]
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COMMENTARY: GOP should call Obama’s bluff
President Barack Obama is demanding a big long-term budget deal. He won’t sign anything less, he warns, asking, “If not now, when?”
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Pension changes in effect
AUGUSTA — The state will owe less to its retirement system in future years thanks to reforms in its new budget, but retirees aren’t happy about changes that will mean smaller increases in benefit checks.
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MCNALLY ALL-STAR FIELD HOCKEY GAME: East clicks in all-star win
WATERVILLE — All-star games in any sport can be tricky. Sometimes the players take a long time to click. Sometimes they never quite get together.
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RICHARD CONNOR: Murdoch responsible for employees’ actions
Furor over the news of the despicable phone-hacking incidents at Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World in Great Britain is likely to carry over to suspicions by the public all over the world that journalists lie, cheat, take payoffs, make payoffs and slant news coverage in order to create headlines and sell newspapers.