White water racing
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Dear friends,
We proudly reintroduce The Courier-Gazette, The Camden Herald and The Republican Journal to the newsstands and reopen the VillageSoup Internet portal, bringing you the latest in news, sports and entertainment.
The model of free news in a small community newspaper has proven to be unsustainable. Readers can continue to access the biz profiles, specials of the day, public events and the headlines at no charge. For readers wanting full access to news and sports a small fee will be charged (only 8 cents a day!).
The price of the printed newspapers has dropped from $1.50 to $1.00 on the newsstands. We will charge readers $49.95 annually to get a newspaper mailed to their homes in Knox, Lincoln or Waldo counties with an additional $9.95 to include complete access to VillageSoup on-line. Internet only access will be available for $29.95 annually, individual articles at 99 cents per story. We also will offer senior and semi-annual rates to help fit your budget.
Source: Bar Harbor Times
'Grahamtastic' fundraiser cuts, dances and bids way to $15000
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SPRINGVALE — Grahamtastic Connection raised more than $15,000 during its 4th Annual Cut-a-thon, Dance and Auction on March 3.
The organization is a Springvale-based nonprofit organization that provides free laptops and Internet access to seriously ill children.
Founder and Executive Director Leslie Morissette stated, "The outpouring support of this community is truly like none other. Even in this tough economy, you see people willing to help out ill children in any way they can."
Magnolia's Salon in Sanford participated in the fundraiser for the third year, doing a cut-a-thon that day that raised $1,488. All day, Magnolia's was filled with people receiving $10
Source: Foster's Daily Democrat
THIS OLD TOWN Mansfield's last mountain man
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This story is really told by Edward Barrows, who until age 16 lived in East Mansfield but now makes his home in Oregon. All I’ve done is boil Ed’s account down to newspaper size.
People said of Ed’s father, Larry Barrows, that “he was born 100 years too late, as in many ways he was the last of the true mountain men.”
Larry was not only a fisherman and hunter but above all a skilled fur trapper. He had, says Ed, few equals among the trapping fraternity that during the Great Depression was far larger than one might expect in semi-urbanized Massachusetts.
Trapping wasn’t so much a sport, like hunting and fishing, as it was a means of augmenting a man’s income, which during the early 1930s might be as little as $10 a week.
Source: Wicked Local
Officer Hoepner summoned a 14-year-old female for harassment. Officer Sean Kozer arrested Nicole Anderson, 23, of Bremen on a warrant. Sgt. Jamie Wilson is investigating the report of the theft of an Old Town canoe.
