Editorials

15 years ago

Thoughts on the weekend storm

Mother Nature proved she was capable of delivering here in southern Aroostook over the weekend, as more than a foot of snow was dropped on the area. The snow was a much needed boost for snowmobile enthusiasts eager to ride the trails and it’s been a long time coming.
While many may marvel at Saturday’s storm, others would argue that we don’t get snow like we used to. I tend to agree with that. As impressive as Saturday’s snowfall was, it pales to the storms of 30 years ago when snowbanks often reached as high as the telephone wires and people hunkered down for days on end waiting for the snow to stop.

15 years ago

Celebrating the legacy of Ronald Reagan

In early 1983, the Soviet dissident Natan Sharansky was in an eight-by-ten foot cell in a Siberian prison when jailers permitted him to read the latest issue of the official Communist Party newspaper.

15 years ago

Conservation Corner: February, 2011

I first heard about Justin Jamison and Eliza Currie of Mainely Simple when my mother, after her morning’s reading of the Bangor Daily News, passed on an editorial about them.

15 years ago

Conservation Corner: January, 2011

When I look east out my office window my eyes first cross U.S. Route 1, pass over the parking lot full of used cars for sale at York’s auto dealership, then on to a stand of popple trees and a farm field beyond.

15 years ago

The Christmas eclipse

With thick, leaden clouds overpowering the skies of the County, I must confess my deep disappointment with the likelihood of unobservable total lunar eclipse this week. No curvature of blackness inexorably reversing the two weeks of prior lunar phasing.

15 years ago

Conservation Corner: December, 2010

One aspect I like about my job is the conversations struck up with landowners who come into the office for one reason or another. Most of the time they stay longer than I’m sure they originally intended.

15 years ago

Remembering our nation’s veterans

Veterans Day was established to commemorate that precise moment – the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month in 1918 – when the guns of the First World War fell silent, and to remember the 116,000 Americans who fell while carrying the torch of liberty.

15 years ago

Remembering our nation’s heroes on Veterans Day

Veterans Day was established to commemorate that precise moment – the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month in 1918 – when the guns of the First World War fell silent, and to remember the 116,000 Americans who fell while carrying the torch of liberty.

15 years ago

Halfway Home has pets looking for homes

Another big week for adoptions at Halfway Home Pet Rescue, but we still have several beautiful adult cats available for adoption and six newborn kittens who will be adoptable in another eight weeks. We are grateful to have been available to several cats that needed extra medical care.

15 years ago

Meeting your new favorite person

Once in awhile I meet someone and decide that they are my “NFP”, (new favorite person). This happened after I met Marlene Lawlor last summer. I don’t now remember why I decided this but I thought of Marlene again this summer when thinking of writing this column.