Thanksgiving

Drunk uncles? Relatives arguing about politics? Before you start piling mashed potatoes on your plate, get to know some of the worst people coming to Thanksgiving dinner this year.

A Thanksgiving dinner will be available this Thursday (Nov. 24) at St. Francis Xavier Church, Route 133, Winthrop, 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm.

Looking forward to Thanksgiving? Or are you dreading having to sit around the table with family? Thanksgiving can always be tough, as extended family gathers together and starts sharing their opinions, sometimes loudly. And this year, we have the election to discuss, no minefields there, right? Fortunately we have found a couple of solutions to help you navigate the tricky waters of Thanksgiving.

We all have favorite Christmas songs, but how about for 'Turkey Day?' I thought I would try and come up with my 5 favorite Thanksgiving songs. It was slim pickings, just like our turkey after Thanksgiving, but here we go...

We've all seen the commercials from the big store chains talking about being open on Thanksgiving. Well in Maine, for the most part, they are not allowed to be open.

Thanksgiving is a time for family and for many that includes your pets. I am a pushover when it comes to begging dogs and giving them people food. Here's guide of what not to feed your dog during Thanksgiving.

It's hard to believe that Thanksgiving is a week from Thursday. After the Thanksgiving Day parades, NFL Football, a huge dinner with family and friends and a trek to the living room to relax, what's next when the tryptophan kicks in and no one wants to move from the sofa...

Being in the military it's almost inevitable that at some point in time you will be gone far...far away for the holidays (at least one). I've been gone for Thanksgiving twice. Once while I was at my Advance Individual Training (AIT) after basic in 2009, and when I was deployed to Kosovo in 2012...

Dad just turned 80 this month and, for the first time ever, neither he or I had anyone to celebrate Thanksgiving with. My kids were doing their own thing with their significant others' families, Marie-Anne was working and Bonnie and Danny, my brother and sister, had their own celebrations outside the immediate family nucleus. It was bound to happen eventually.

Thanksgiving is less than a week away and now you can celebrate the special relationships for which you're the most thankful with a cool new video feature from Facebook.

I probably wrote something similar last year, but I feel the need to write about it again this year. I am thankful that in Maine, we don't have shopping for the most part on Thanksgiving.

If you take a quick look at the calendar, you'll notice that Thanksgiving is still over two weeks away, yet that hasn't stopped two California women from lining up for Best Buy's Thanksgiving Day sale.

The photo above is my friend Angie. She's one of the reasons I enjoy going to China Hannaford or, as we call it locally, Chinaford. She agreed to pose while holding my favorite entrée from the deli, the rotisserie turkey breast. I'm not sure if they spin it on a skewer like they do those poor little chickens, but I'm sure it must be something similar.

There was some horrendous lip syncing at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade this year. Why even give them a microphone...it just makes them look amateurish....

Here's more proof that kids do indeed say the darnedest things.

We aren’t all master chefs accustomed to cooking huge meals for dozens people, so the kind folks at Butterball have been answering all our Thanksgiving-turkey-cooking-related questions for years. And during that time, they've had some funny calls.