February 11, 2013 This Friday, an asteroid known as DA 14, will pass very close to Earth, it’s expected to be within the orbit of the moon or 17,200 miles from earth. The moon is roughly 238,000 miles from Earth making DA 14’s is the closest passing of an asteroid ever recorded.
February 11, 2013 It's the middle of February and the middle of cabin fever season in Maine. Relieve your cabin fever at the cabin fever reliever at the Washburn-Norlands Living History Center. They'll be hosting a cabin fever reliever living history day, on Saturday, February 23 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m..
February 10, 2013 Jason Kidd of the New York Knicks recently hit the 12,000 assist mark in his NBA career. Kidd is in his 17th NBA season starting with the Dallas Mavericks in 1994 and playing three different times with the Mavericks. He has also played for the Phoenix Suns and New
February 8, 2013 It’s a big day in White House history today, February 8, 1922, the day a radio was installed in the Presidential Mansion. President Warren Harding was in office at the time and he wanted the radio. In 1922, radio was the hottest new technology much like the internet is today. In the 1920's radio broadcasts where everything and anything they could get to fill air time. A lot of local radio stations had amateur talent perform while some of the larger stations broadcast news casts, weather reports, popular and classical music, a sort of a free for all radio industry.
February 8, 2013 With everyone getting snowed in this weekend, what else is better than looking forward to enjoying plenty of chocolate? The 9th annual Chocolate Festival is coming up on Sunday, February 17 at the Masonic Temple in Greenville.
February 7, 2013 John and Ann Betar of Fairfield, Conn., have been named as the longest married couple in the United States. They have been married for 80 years with five children, 14 grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren.
They met while growing up in Connecticut, but Ann’s father arranged for her to marry another man, so John and Ann eloped, which she now says was the right choice. The couple says they don’t like to give advice on how to stay married but they do say compromise and not holding a grudge goes a long way.
February 7, 2013 KG, as we that KNOW him call him, will be playing against the...wait for it...LAKERS (of course) as he goes for a milestone that hasn't been reached by very many. In fact, only 15 others have managed that feat.
February 6, 2013
Mt. Dew, the popular soda from Pepsi, wasn’t a Pepsi product until 1964 when they bought the rights from the Tip Corporation. Pepsi used the campaign ‘Yahoo Mountain Dew…It’ll tickle your innards’. Brothers Ally and Barney Hartman bottled ‘Mountain Dew’ in the 1940’s, but it was mostly local and used to mix hard liquors. In the 1950’s the label changed featuring its makers signatures under the Mountain Dew on the label and featured a hillbilly named ‘Gran Pappy’.
February 6, 2013 The 6th Annual Flavors of Freeport will be coming up on February 15th and 16th throughout Freeport Village. Events will include the Chef's Signature Series, Ice Bar and a Silent Art Auction to benefit the Freeport Community Services Food Pantry.
February 6, 2013 Snowmobile enthusiasts will be attempting to break the Guinness World Record for the longest snowmobile parade this Saturday in Rangeley. It's all part as a fundraiser for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation of Northern New England.
