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Despite 2020, it's still a wonderful life Though we may have been to "the bridge" once or twice.  By Dick Schwartz Text size Copy shortlink: I don't celebrate Christmas per se. But that doesn't mean I haven't watched "It's a Wonderful Life," the mother of all Christmas movies, as many times as you have. The first time came after an endless nightmare flight over the Great Plains and the Rocky Mountains in a blizzard. When the apologetic pilot landed his plane — don't ask me how — and wished his shaken passengers a "merry Christmas," I d...

Track Santa or check out the North Pole activities 4 interactive ways News 12 Staff Updated on:Dec 24, 2020, 8:12am EST Want to track Santa while he delivers presents, or visit the North Pole? Here are some interactive ways to get closer to the big man himself: NORAD Santa Tracker Thanks to NORAD and Google, you can once again track Santa's journey around the world on Christmas Eve! This long-running tradition has been given a new lease on life in recent years with Google's involvement, adding a little bit of map-based magic to millions of Christmas Eves around the globe. Visit the North Po...

Bill Nemitz: A Christmas tree heavy with ornaments, each a memory of a life cut short Share Marilyn Davis at Bowdoinham Nazarene Church with the Memory Tree on Wednesday. Davis came up with the idea for a Christmas tree with ornaments honoring all of the Mainers who have died from COVID-19. Brianna Soukup/Staff Photographer “Preserve your memories,” singer and poet Paul Simon once wrote. “They’re all that’s left you.” They rise up with our prayers, memories of those who were just here, but now, in the blink of an eye, are gone. They fill our obituary columns, life stories cut sho...

For someone making Christmas addresses for decades, the Queen of England’s contribution to the lexicon of commonly used phrases has been minimal. But she introduced the term “annus horribilis” when once declaring “1992 is not a year on which I shall look back with undiluted pleasure”. Should she repeat the phrase during this year’s Christmas speech, drinkers in wet pubs probably won’t exclaim: “She took the words out of my mouth.” But only because wet pubs aren’t open and we have other terms to describe 2020, mostly unprintable in any newspaper. It has been a ghostly year ...

In 1950, my parents, John and Laura Holden moved to a small white cottage home in Hermitage with eight children in tow. They had four boys and four girls. There was the oldest Thomas James, and then in descending ages, Evelyn, Geraldine, John Jr., Jimmy, myself Virginia, Walter and the baby who was only two years old, Mildred Ann. We grew up in simple times in that loving little cottage. We all had each other, a family bond that was strong in love and tied together securely by the prayers of our mother. We made so many memories, memories and lessons that have made us all the men and women we ...