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The fundraiser at The Cumberland Club will benefit the Portland music venue's mentoring and emerging artist programs.

We think of age as an impediment. What if it's an engine?

I’m not a very a competitive person. I lose patience and interest with games that go on and on and on …  except for maybe Scrabble, but that’s not this story. This story is back in the ’80s in a cramped New York City apartment with three grumpy guys and me, who happened to be […]

Unlikely techie hopes to make her mark with simple online tool With help from a young software developer, Kym Dakin of Yarmouth battles Zoom fatigue with a bookmarking application called Nugget. Share Kym Dakin developed an app called Nugget that simplifies note-taking for users on Zoom calls or other virtual platforms so meeting participants can focus on their conversations. Ben McCanna/Staff Photographer After a pitch competition for Maine entrepreneurs last month, Nick Rimsa was listening...

Kym Dakin, Yarmouth: My 2-by-4-foot haven from New York City life Share I grew up surrounded by rocky soil, harsh winds, infrequent rains. Colorado has great sunshine and grows happy tomatoes, but my mom was raised in the rich black soils of Minnesota. She gave up on a real garden and settled for growing strawberries. I was drafted into the Wonderful World of Weeding. It wasn’t an enthusiastic horticultural beginning. For Kym Dakin, pictured in Portugal, five years of membership in a communit...