BUG GUTS & BEAUTY
Weather is a fickle but wonderful conversation starter. It changes and people all over have something to say. Just stop in at the diner in Mapleton. Over fresh coffee and real homemade donuts the chief topic is … weather! Either for or against the weather of the moment, it fascinates and drives the conversation.
REMEMBER WHEN
When I was in grade school we always had a pig or two and a cow. We used the cow, of course, to supply milk and other beef critters for freezer meat. The pigs were for hams, bacon and home salted salt fat back.
IN THE CITY
The City of Presque Isle’s website has recently been updated making certain things easier for residents.
Often genealogists overlook local historical societies as resources.
STANDISH, Maine — On Saturday, May 14, 2016 Saint Joseph’s College held its 103rd Commencement on its Standish campus, conferring degrees to members of the Class of 2016, a multigenerational and multicultural group of over 700 campus and online students from 42 states and three countries outside the U.S.
DURHAM, N.H. — Casey Carson of Presque Isle graduated from the University of New Hampshire during the commencement ceremony held Saturday, May 21, 2016 on the Durham, N.H., campus.
BIDDEFORD, Maine — Garrett McElrath of Hampden has been named to the dean’s list for the 2016 spring semester at the University of New England.
Applications are now being accepted for the 2016 Miss Northern Maine Pageant. The contest will be held in October and is open to girls and women ages 2 and up who live in Maine.
WASHBURN NEWS
The Salmon Brook Historical Society invites everyone to attend the fourth annual Tea and Quilt Show Sunday, Aug. 7, 2016 to support its two museums, the Benjamin C. Wilder Farmstead and Aroostook Agricultural Museum.
