Editorials

9 years ago

Fire and ice

It may come as a surprise that in Spring, while we watch the rivers, hoping for an orderly ice-out, we also need to be aware of wildfires.

9 years ago

Editor’s note

Editor’s note: Fourth-through eighth-graders from Aroostook County schools were invited to contribute to “Potatoes and Pussywillows”, an anthology collected and sponsored by the directors of Aroostook Right To Read, an organization whose mission is to promote literacy encompassing reading, writing, listening and speaking across the curriculum among students, educators, and parents. The student work will […]

10 years ago

Looking beyond the vital records offers unexpected rewards

The phrase “think outside the box” is found everywhere it seems from the business world to education. It means don’t be hidebound or constrained in your thinking. For genealogists it’s equally important that we think outside the box of conventional records.

10 years ago

Snow foolin’!

Over the past several weeks, I have heard numerous comments, such as “I’ve never seen a winter like this”, (referring to the relatively light seasonal snow total).

10 years ago

God was with me there too

I was in the family tent with my brother, and we heard the neighbors’ kids outside about to cause trouble. But Shep saved the day.

10 years ago

When sweet revenge is cold!

We had a snowstorm a couple weeks ago that reminded me of an event that happened when I used to work in Easton. My best friend, who calls himself “my brother from another mother,” worked the same shift and we rode together.

When we left for work the night before it was snowing about a half inch per hour or a tad more. During the night the wind picked up and if you ever traveled the Conant Road from Presque Isle to Easton, you would know that it was a stretch of road you don’t want to be on in bad weather if it can be helped.
Asa and I had been talking about something that had happened a day or so earlier and I was sort of poking fun at him. All of a sudden I was sitting in the passenger seat of his pickup covered in snow. There was a hole in the front fender well right in front of me and I had forgotten it. Well, Asa had told me I would pay for making fun and almost as soon as he said that he hit a snowdrift in the road that caused me to be the recipient of a few pounds of loose snow that came in through the hole.
Needless to say I never made fun of him again … at least ‘til the next time. Now I sit and remember to the “fun” days and Remember When …
Guy Woodworth of Presque Isle is a 1973 graduate of Presque Isle High School and a four-year Navy veteran. He and his wife Theresa have two grown sons and five grandchildren. He may be contacted at lightning117_1999@yahoo.com.

10 years ago

Potholes are a sure sign of spring

Now that Winter is showing its age, Spring is getting ready to burst on the scene. Under all those inches of snow, frost, and ice lie acres of spring stuff. There will be flowers and new buds on the trees. Proud parents of new babies will begin to trot them out in the strollers and carriers to choruses of oohs and ahhs.