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Lincoln County Artsbeat

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The art of the Christmas market: Some of you may have noticed that my column was not in the paper last week. That’s because I took a little vacation to Germany for nine days to visit my son and his family, who live in northern Bavaria. I chose December so that I could go to Christmas markets, something that Germany is rather famous for. Until this trip, I had never visited Germany in December.

DON’T DO NOTHING

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The Newcastle Board of Selectmen has a treacherous path to negotiate as it considers what to do after the rejection of a new land use ordinance at the polls.

Damariscotta History Childhood memories leading up to Christmas

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We are now beginning the first full week of December and Marjorie and I have just installed our small Christmas tree with all its decorations. The angel on the top of the tree is near 90 years old and some of the decorations which belonged to Marjorie’s mother, Kathleen, as well are over 100 years old. We hung both our stockings in hope that Santa will treat us well for being so good.

Waste Watch

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Brrr … nothing more to say about the weather.

Sorry to be negative, but some customers continue to go through our stop signs and also drive too fast. I know the answer to the problem, but I hate to have to put down speed bumps. This is starting to look like the only solution. I hope we will be able to get everyone to cooperate.

Infamy Remembered

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It was a quiet, sleepy Sunday morning in a tropical paradise 2,000 miles off the West Coast of America. At 7:55 a.m., fighters and bombers marked with the insignia of the rising sun swooped across the harbor, bombing and strafing. By 10 a.m., the surprise attack was at an end, and so too was the innocence of a generation.

FLIGHT FROM WISCASSET?

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Some of the downtown Wiscasset merchants who were against the Maine Department of Transportation project have decided that, rather than make the best of the changes – or move out quietly and let their neighbors make the best of the changes – they will use some vacancies downtown to spread a narrative about businesses fleeing the village.

Gratitude

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On Dec. 4 of last year, I fell through an opening in the floor of our house and landed on rocky boulders in our sub-basement. I don’t remember any of the fall or the three following weeks, but my husband has given me the details. I kept asking for them over and over, trying to piece together what had happened to me.

Lincoln County Artsbeat

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Loznicka retrospective: I attended the Nov. 24 opening reception for well-known New Harbor artist Marlene Loznicka’s retrospective show on the walls of Legacy Properties Sotheby’s International Realty in Damariscotta.

The Mobius Strip Being Frazier

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“You know, my birthday is next week,” said Frazier one cold snowy morning while we slid into a booth at the Bristol Diner, one of his favorite breakfast places.

MORE REASONS TO SHOP LOCAL

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Every year we say (and hear) shop local, shop local, shop local.

But what makes it important to shop local?

50 Years Ago in Lincoln County

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From The Lincoln County News, November 1968:

Election Day: Lincoln County backed the Nixon-Agnew ticket on Nov. 5, giving the Republican from California 5,659 votes to 3,378 for Democrat and then-Vice President Hubert Humphrey and 231 for Alabama segregationist and former Gov. George Wallace.

Thrifty Good Food Thrifty Good Food

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Two of the most imposing presentations at the table are popovers and Yorkshire pudding. Amazingly, both require only eggs, milk, flour, a bit of salt, and, yes, some fat. After all, as Fats Waller, the famous jazz pianist, was quoted to say, “Fat’s where it’s at!”


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