My name is Jonathan Holabird, and I want to share my story with you. It’s not a story about substance use or how I drove my friends and family away, although, you’ll read about that. This is a story about forgiveness, personal growth, and recovery.
To the editor:
As someone living with a chronic anxiety disorder/complex posttraumatic stress disorder, I’m proud to be able to volunteer my time to facilitate Healthy Living for ME online workshops.
In the past month, one out of every hundred residents of Aroostook County tested positive for COVID-19, according to a Sept. 15 story in the BDN and County weekly newspapers. Right now and throughout the entirety of this pandemic, we’ve done what Mainers always do: look out for each other and come together in a time of crisis.
I fell in love with it as soon as I drank “it.” I absolutely fell in love. The high from alcohol calmed me down when I was stressed. I didn’t even care about the hang overs, shakes, or hours of dry heaving the next day. I had fallen in love.
In celebration of American Business Women’s Day on Sept. 22, Presque Isle Historical Society takes a look back at some of the unusual groundbreaking women from the community’s past.
Hospitals can be viewed as a necessary evil. Did you ever wonder why there is a push to put patients into Johnny robes? These ill-fitting, clumsy rejects from the Korean War are straight jackets on the minimal.
For some time now, I have heard tales of the enchanting gentleman I am about to introduce you to. He has been the best friend of the man I am going to marry for many years now, and I had the delightful experience of meeting him at last.
Twenty years pass by in a blink. Births, deaths, weddings and funerals all run together. Gray hairs sprout from heads of youngsters yet to be born.
Emma M. Nutt Day was marked on Sept. 1. Who, you say, is Emma M. Nutt? Emma was born in Perry, Maine in 1860. On September 1, 1878, she became the world’s first female telephone operator, a field that soon became dominated by women.
A volunteer is someone who willingly, without pay, does something to benefit others or to further a cause. In addition to helping others, it also benefits the volunteer by reducing stress, combatting depression, and increasing self-confidence.
