Editorials

Town meeting time is upon us once again. March is the most common month for municipalities in the state to hold their annual meetings to approve budgets and vote for leadership positions.
The town meeting process was established back in the 17th century as a time when an entire community came together to enact policies and budgets for their respective towns. In Maine, the first town meetings were called when it was still a district of Massachusetts.

Spring officially arrived Tuesday, March 20, but with this past week’s roller coaster of weather, it’s hard to tell if winter has finally run its course. March is traditionally known as the month that comes “In like a lion and out like a lamb” and that adage seems to be holding true thus far.

Last week, Houlton High School closed its doors to the public for a short period of time to do something long overdue. The school conducted a random drug search of students’ lockers with the help of the Houlton Police Department and a K-9 dog from the Maine State Police.

After the plastic tarp blew off the greenhouse in November 2010, Matthew and I hired Rick’s construction crew to build a thirty by sixty foot addition behind our big barn to shelter the twenty heifers we’d recently purchased. Working in the bitter cold and snow, Rick’s team completed the project by the second week of December just as winter tightened her arctic grip on Westford Hill.