Christine Simmonds
Managing Editor at Midcoast Villager
Journalist for Courier-Gazette and Village Soup. Writer for Maine Women Magazine and Maine Senior Magazine.
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2 days ago |
midcoastvillager.com | Christine Simmonds
National Doughnut Day is Friday, June 6, and the Rockport Donut Festival approaches. This means I get to write about my favorite bit of food history: the origins of the doughnut hole!While some food histories are a bit nebulous, the story of the doughnut hole — that is, the doughnut as a round confection with a hole in the middle, not a Dunkin' munchkin — is one with receipts: It’s a dessert innovation that was made, without a doubt, in Rockport by Capt. Hanson Gregory in the 1840s.
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4 days ago |
midcoastvillager.com | Christine Simmonds
They say laughter is the best medicine and there was plenty Saturday night at Watts Hall in Thomaston, when students from Oceanside Middle School took the stage to perform stand-up comedy with the group Killing Cancer with Comedy. The young comedians wrote and performed their own jokes before a live audience at the historic theater on Saturday, May 31. kAm!6C7@C>:?8 H6C6 D:IE9\8C256 DEF56?ED {:?4@=? "F:?E[ }2E2=:6 sF?? 2?5 u:?? |F==6?j D6G6?E9\8C256 DEF56?ED pFDE:?
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4 days ago |
midcoastvillager.com | Christine Simmonds
The town of Thomaston recognized nine emergency first responders who received the Phoenix Award, given by Maine EMS for a successful resuscitation during an emergency response. Recipients were Kevin LeCaptain, Kayte Maynard, Trinity Dearborn, Connor Calderwood, Ryan Morton, J.T. O’Hare, Jamie Leo, Bob Coombs and Earl Sutherland. kAm~?6 6>6C86?4J 42== H2D 2 42C 4C2D9 :? u63CF2CJ[ H:E9 >F=E:A=6 A2E:6?ED] p A2E:6?E 6IA6C:6?465 42C5:24 2CC6DE 5FC:?8 EC2?DA@CE :? 2?
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4 days ago |
midcoastvillager.com | Christine Simmonds
They say laughter is the best medicine and there was plenty Saturday night at Watts Hall in Thomaston, when students from Oceanside Middle School took the stage to perform stand-up comedy with the group Killing Cancer with Comedy. The young comedians wrote and performed their own jokes before a live audience at the historic theater on Saturday, March 31. kAm!6C7@C>:?8 H6C6 D:IE9\8C256 DEF56?ED {:?4@=? "F:?E[ }2E2=:6 sF?? 2?5 u:?? |F==6?j D6G6?E9\8C256 DEF56?ED pFDE:?
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3 weeks ago |
midcoastvillager.com | Christine Simmonds
Meet Adam Fuller. Lives in Union with his wife and daughter. Carpenter and builder. Passionate about his community. Q: What keeps you in the Midcoast? kAmpi %96 A6@A=6] w2G:?8 8C@H? FA :?
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