Editorials

8 years ago

Town fights back against addiction

Milo is a lot like other Maine towns — a close-knit, rural community where people know each other, care about each other, and try to work together to make their community better.

8 years ago

New ideas for the new year

Those snap, crackle and pop sounds you keep hearing are not from your breakfast cereal, nor are they coming from the burning logs in your fireplace.

8 years ago

New ideas for the new year

Those snap, crackle and pop sounds you keep hearing are not from your breakfast cereal, nor are they coming from the burning logs in your fireplace.

8 years ago

An Allagash legend passes

The Allagash Wilderness Waterway this past fall lost one of the most colorful rangers ever to work on its iconic waters. Brady Scott passed away on Saturday, Oct. 15, 2016.

8 years ago

Knock twice, cut once

It’s that time of year again when we make all kinds of resolutions that we know we just won’t keep.
The ball will drop in New York just like all years in the remembered past and the day will dawn, new, but in some ways old as well.

8 years ago

Tracking Santa, and a holiday wish

Walkabout: PI

Happenings in the Star City

As the song says, “It’s the most wonderful time of the year.” There’s a bustle of shopping, familiar carols playing everywhere, snow falling on twinkling holiday lights; at home, there are aromas of timely treats from the kitchen, a tangle of wrappings and gifts under the tree. Neighbors drop by, relatives call, friends visit.

8 years ago

Conservation Corner: A visit to Udderly Blessed Homestead

The first thing I noticed when I pulled up at the old McBride farm in Littleton recently was a Soil and Water Conservation farmer recognition sign, much faded and rusted, but hanging as an ode to the history of the farm.

8 years ago

An early blanket of snow

Well here it is the first trail report of the season (as of Dec. 8). If this is what the season will be like, we are in for one awesome winter.

8 years ago

What every sportsman needs for Christmas

It’s getting down to crunch time for Christmas shopping with only a few days remaining for final selections. In the big cities where there are multitudes of stores, malls and specialty shops that stay open late, even for the last-minute Christmas Eve shoppers, eleventh-hour purchases are no problem.

8 years ago

Joys of the season

It’s shopping season. Time to put on the smiles, break out the work gloves and start hauling the stuff into the back seat of a way too small car.