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From the moment she steps into the Press Herald Toy Fund Workshop in South Portland, Mary Cavallaro doesn’t stop moving. She greets other volunteers, tracks down needed supplies, bags gifts and checks on lists of recipients. She does it all with a smile on her face. The annual work of the Toy Fund to provide […]

The annual toy drive was started in 1949 by a newspaper editor and Portland social worker. Since then, 'there's never been a year that this didn't happen,' said operations manager Jeff Ham.

On a split, 5-1 vote, during its Sept. 26 meeting, Kershaw County Council approved a “mid-year” request by Kershaw County Sheriff Lee Boan to increase his deputies’ salaries by $3,000

The 73-year-old charity, which has a new operations manager this year, continues to rely on the donations of newspaper readers to bring joy to children in need.

I could not agree more with Jeff Ham’s letter (“Auburn leaders should step back, listen to residents,” May 9). It is painfully obvious that the mayor and most members of Auburn’s City Council and Planning Board are not the least bit interested in considering what citizens want in terms of development. Why else would the […]

MAGIC—Raymond Mastrovito plays Father Drobney. Courtesy of Conejo Players Theatre If the play “Don’t Drink the Water” could be described with a news headline, it might read, “American tourists run amok in foreign embassy.” That pretty much sums up Woody Allen’s manic Cold War comedy, which was produced on Broadway in 1966. It was the