As the Northern Hemisphere prepares for winter, the nights are getting colder and longer, even as our terrestrial landscape is getting bleaker since most of our colorful leaves have fallen. There will be several interesting highlights this month, including Jupiter at its best for the year, Venus returning to our evening sky, a comet still getting brighter, and even a little asteroid that will buzz Earth at less than the distance to the moon.
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OUTDOORS: Skiers’ losses are hikers’ gain at closed ski areas
With the start of the 2011-2012 ski season now less than a month away, my thoughts have turned, as they always do this time of year, to the abundance of wonderful fall hikes on the mountains that once were active ski areas and have reverted to their original wooded state.
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HERB WILSON — FOR THE BIRDS: eBird makes it easy to share sightings
With the passing of Steve Jobs last month, we have all been thinking about the way that computers and the Internet have transformed our lives. The information highway has had profound effects on the ease and speed with which birders can communicate.
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POLICE
Augusta Sunday At 12:06 p.m., there was an accident on Xavier Loop Road. 1:40 p.m., there was a hit-and-run accident on Willow Street. 4:52 p.m., there was a report of a burglary from a vehicle parked on South Chestnut Street. 6:05 p.m., a burglary from a vehicle was reported on Civic Center Drive. 7:52 p.m., […]
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CORRECTION
Skowhegan field hockey player Jessie Skillings was misidentified in a photo caption that appeared on page C1 Sunday. Skillings and Makaela Michonski were the players in the photo. It was a photographer’s error.
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CORRECTION
HALLOWELL — Spectrum Generations will offer a free lunch to veterans at three of its community centers on Nov. 10. Because of a source error, the date was incorrect in Friday’s Kennebec Journal.
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FARMINGDALE — Eugene Moreau is not a current selectman, and the car wash on Maine Avenue where a fireworks shop is proposed is still operating as a car wash. Reporting errors about Moreau and the shop appeared Thursday in a story on page B1.
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TRAVELIN’ MAINE(RS): Dining at DaVinci’s is definitely delicious
The Travelin Maine(rs), George and Linda Smith of Mount Vernon, have spent their lifetimes enjoying all that Maine has to offer. Now they’ll tell you all about it — their favorite inns, restaurants, trips, activities, experiences, and travel books and websites — in their own personal style. They’ll be offering anecdotes, tips and all the […]
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BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: New books describe a Maine of the past, designing the ‘Virginia’
SALT & PINES: TALES FROM BYGONE MAINE
Edited by Jeanne Mason and D.L. Soucy
The History Press, 2011, 192 pages, $19.99
ISBN 978-1-60949-368-4
Jeanne Mason and D.L. Soucy have a good idea. They are collecting stories about “what it was like to live in Maine’s bygone days,” capturing vivid memories while aging folks are still around to tell tales of logging, fishing, farming and growing up in the 1920s-50s.
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Obama peddles jobs plan in Va., NC
Andrew James St. Amand, 34, remains an arson suspect in an April 9 fire at 23 Windsor St., Randolph, according to Sgt. Ken Grimes of the Office of the State Fire Marshal. A story on page B1 of Tuesday’s edition may have left the impression St. Amand has been cleared because he has not been indicted or charged with arson.