[Make sure to fill these out and return them. The information gathered determines who gets what in the good ol’ US of A. — KM]
US census forms arrive in the mail today | The Portland Press Herald / Maine Sunday Telegram.
[Make sure to fill these out and return them. The information gathered determines who gets what in the good ol’ US of A. — KM]
US census forms arrive in the mail today | The Portland Press Herald / Maine Sunday Telegram.
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[Make sure to fill these out and return them. The information gathered determines who gets what in the good ol’ US of A. — KM]
US census forms arrive in the mail today | The Portland Press Herald / Maine Sunday Telegram.
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Tagged B&M Baked Beans, baked beans, bean pots, Casco Bay, molasses, mustard, Portland, sugar
In a live-and-let-live swath of rural western Maine, entrepreneurs have turned to exotic dancers as a viable — and even welcomed — business model.
Sex & the country | The Portland Press Herald / Maine Sunday Telegram.
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Tagged adult businesses, adult entertainment, Bodies In Motion, dancing poles, disco ball, entrepreneurs, eroctic dance, lap dances, PartyDance Fitness, PartyDancersUSA, restaurants, snowmobiliers, strip club, strippers, strobe lights, tavers, topless, western Maine
[Sad situation that happens far, far too often. These scams especially prey on the elderly, who have little money to spare. Sad, sad, sad. — KM]
Maine couple duped out of $240,000 | The Portland Press Herald / Maine Sunday Telegram.
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Tagged Bumble Bee Foods, closure, fedeeral regulations, Gov. John Baldacci, herring, layoffs, lobster, Prospect Harbor, sardine cannery
Web site to link Maine resources
for Haiti aid uses woman’s media skills
Mary Doyle doesn’t have medical expertise or a lot of disposable income for charitable donations, but she wanted to do her part for the people of Haiti and the Mainers who are helping there.
She does have a knack for bringing people together and developing Web sites, so she tapped those skills to create the Maine Friends of Haiti Web site.
The site lists the large number of Maine groups working to help the people affected by the Caribbean nation’s devastating earthquake, which hit Jan. 12, killing more than 200,000 people and leaving 1.5 million more homeless.
“I tried to think of something that could be helpful,” Doyle said. “There was no Web site or group that was tying all the different efforts together.”
Click on the link for the rest of this story by David Hench in the Portland Press Herald.
And here’s a link to the Maine Friends of Haiti website: http://www.mainefriendsofhaiti.org/mainefriendsofhaiti.org/Home.html
OK, I have a special reason to like today’s DownEast.com trivia question. Two of them, actually.
When I was a kid there was a Disney TV movie, “Fire on Kelly Mountain” (1973), in which Larry Wilcox played a young guy who works in a forest fire lookout tower, becomes bored, and ends up fighting a lightning strike.
And because I ended up being a wildland firefighter for three summers while attending college in Chico, California.
Where was the country’s first forest fire lookout tower built?
Answer:
In 1905, on Squaw Mountain, since renamed Big Moose Mountain.
Big Moose Mountain is in Piscataquis County, Maine, by the way. It’s near Moosehead Lake.
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