Columns
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Baking with Betty
By Betty Heald - Jun 14This week's column is dedicated to good drivers — one has to be diligent at all times on these back country roads as well as city streets. ...
Gray Matters — Planting seeds
By Tanya Mitchell - Jun 13Over the last weekend we had the pleasure of seeing another set of Waldo County high school seniors make the transition into the next chapter of ...
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Take it Outside
By Marion Tucker-Honeycutt - Jun 13Watched a video that came in my email from a doctor’s "newsletter" that gives a lot of good research on how to get and stay healthy. On average, ...
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Bridge work, street lights and Northport Scramble
Jun 13June 10, 1880 "The Belfast end of Little River bridge is about finished. The roadway has been widened by building two substantial stone walls, one ...
Succession planting makes sense for Maine gardens
By Tom Seymour - Jun 13With very few exceptions (purposely allowing ground to lie fallow for one year to enhance future productivity rates as one), it does gardeners ...
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What I learned in third grade
By Daniel Dunkle - Jun 13“Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life — learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.” — ...
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Rod McElroy
By John Piotti - Jun 13With Rod, it was always about the kids. A lifelong educator — teacher, guidance counselor, principal, and superintendent — Rod McElroy saw the ...
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Greers’ Corner Schoolhouse — senseless vandalism, again!
By Isabel Morse Maresh - Jun 13Over the years, I’ve written several articles about the goings’ on at the one-room Greers’ Corner Schoolhouse in Belmont. Sometimes the articles ...
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Letters, June 13
Jun 12Why we need to form a Community Anti-Drug Coalition in Waldo County A recently released report from Maine’s Substance Abuse and Mental Health ...
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Baking with Betty
By Betty Heald - Jun 07This week's column is dedicated to pie makers! Now that grange and church suppers are in full swing, pies are extremely popular. For you folks who ...
Blogs
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Do You Know the Unique Heart Attack Symptoms in Women?
By Teresa Gregory - Jun 18When someone is having a heart attack we often imagine someone clutching their chest and describing the sensation of having an “elephant sitting ...
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A closer look at the "funnies" in Finland?
By Art Jura - Jun 18Today's "blog" is a departure from the embarrassing antics of "Viivi & Wagner"(the lady and the pig), and a closer look at a cartoon that is ...
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Belfast: A Changing City
By Galen and Luis - Jun 17by Galen Stubbert Belfast has been a city of newcomers since its beginning. However, my paper will be focusing on the changes brought to Belfast ...
Brahoohoo not Brouhaha
By Kit Hayden - Jun 15About the first thing a child encounters on entering the outside world is his mamma’s mammaries. Perhaps it is this early, captivating experience ...
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Does “Mass Customized Learning” Represent Real Education Change?
By Lisa Cooley - Jun 14There are big changes taking place in some Maine school districts. These districts have joined a group called the Maine Cohort for Customized ...
Amateur and Professional Potters
By Galen and Luis - Jun 13by Luis I recently tried my hand at pottery and also checked out the spring firing of the wood-fired kiln at Jody Johnstone Pottery in Swanville. ...
‘Die Hard’ goes to Moscow
By Tom Von Malder - Jun 09A Good Day To Die Hard (Fox, Blu-ray or standard DVD, R/NR, 98/101 min.). The fifth “Die Hard” film, which is presented on DVD in both the ...
tonight (June 9 Sunday) between 9pm -12am is the ideal time for prayers and meditations for healing of friends and family members in need of it.
By ananur forma - Jun 09Yes, it's for real. Neptune and Saturn are in a positive aspect (mathematical relationship) all month and tonight from 9pm -12am the Moon and ...
New Moon 11:57am east coast time zone form new habits and routines, all new beginnings. this began.... June 8th with the New Moon's energy!
By ananur forma - Jun 08June 8 the New Moon takes place at 11:57 a.m. with the Sun and Moon at 18 degrees of Gemini. According to Dane Rudhyar (famous Astrologer) this ...
Bahner Farm, part II
By Galen and Luis - Jun 07by Galen I met Mike and Christa Bahner, owners of Bahner Farm, while attending a MOFGA training program last summer. I was looking for a farm to ...
Discussions
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Letter to the editor
By Steven Hutchings - Jun 15MIKE THIBODEAUX, JETHRO PEASE, YOUR WRONG! Too often of late, we perceive Augusta as a political problem versus a solution. We have had almost ...
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11 Things Withdrawal Folks Don't Want You to Think About:
By Ray Wirth - Jun 101. Withdrawal won’t help this year. The projected 2013-2014 school budget shortfall (and possible tax increases) will not be resolved by any ...
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Letter to the editor
By Steven Hutchings - Jun 05"I'm not moving to RSU 20" Over a year ago I warned the City Council of the problems associated with RSU 20. Our taxes would continue to ...
Comments
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Re: Pig Out BBQ seating expansion denied due to lack of parking
By Laurie Lee Allen - Jun 191. Planning Board Approved/City Council Approved WITHOUT CONDITIONS. GO CURSE OUT AND ACCOST CITY HALL. They inflict witch hunt after witch hunt ...
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Re: A closer look at the "funnies" in Finland?
By Lawrence Butler - Jun 19Art, This was a delightful Finnish lesson since the sarcastic remark was an inside joke: Venäläinen means Russian in Finnish, but it is also the ...
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Re: Funny cider and exploding deer
By Tanya Mitchell - Jun 18Any time, John. I had a blast!
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Re: Pig Out BBQ seating expansion denied due to lack of parking
By Harold Richardson - Jun 18Not one of the retail stores or restaurants in the downtown area provide the parking they are supposed to have. If the Pig-Out smoke is a problem, ...
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Re: Lincolnville news
By Norman D Carver - Jun 18I am sorry for anyone that loses their job due to budget restraints or business decisions but Chief Young has a better than average severance ...
Member Stories
Doggie Ice Cream Social at Summer Solstice
By Heidi Vanorse - Jun 18Join Loyal Biscuit Co. for a Doggie Ice Cream Social during the Rockland Main Street Summer Solstice Celebration! On Saturday, June 22, from ...
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Radio Searsport
By Dan West - Jun 17By Dick Desmarais Tuesday, June 18, starting at 7 p.m., the regular meeting of the Selectmen will take place in the Town Hall. This meeting will ...
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Unity Town News
By Sonia Antunes - Jun 16IN MY WORLD Seems no one I know got a moose permit. Bill’s been submitting an application for over 20 years and has never received one. Better ...
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Knox Town News
By Rita Doughty - Jun 16Rabies There has been a report that there have been two cases of rabies in the County.(skunks ) both involved with farm animal / pet exposure. ...
Book Review, The Spy Who Got Away by David Wise
By MILT GROSS - Jun 16This non-fiction story of former Central Intelligence Agency agent Edward Lee Howard to me seems not as much a spy thriller as an indictment on ...
