Editorials

3 years ago

Cooking with Susie Q – Week of December 14, 2022

I think many of us may need to slow down, take a look around, and decide what’s really important. Is it the big gift? The big tree? Or maybe it’s the family that we surround ourselves with or the friends we have made our family. Enjoy the food, enjoy the friends and enjoy your family.  Enjoy the Season.

3 years ago

Cooking with Susie Q – Week of December 7, 2022

I had another request for our liquid laundry detergent.  Kathryn says she hasn’t used it yet, but was excited to try it. Have a good time with it, Kathryn. I also have another recipe for a non-toxic, yet successful cleaner.

3 years ago

The language of ‘horse’

A summer Saturday can be interesting. Does one know what a horse is? It’s easy to see a horse. It’s got two small ears, a tail, four legs and a round belly. It can be ridden or pull a sulky. And they can have opinions that do not suffer foolish types.

3 years ago

Aroostook’s own national Christmas tree

It has been a tradition for the president of the United States to light a national Christmas tree beginning in 1923 with President Calvin Coolidge. One year, that tree came from northern Maine and created many “firsts” for the tree program.

3 years ago

A difficult goodbye

His soft ivory curls were wrapped around my finger as I examined every part of his body with cloudy eyes, my free hand stroking his shoulders as I told him, for probably the millionth time during his 12 years on earth, that I loved him. I told him he was beautiful — the most beautiful Goldendoodle in the world.

3 years ago

Property tax stabilization for seniors

The Maine Legislature has created a new law regarding the taxation of property owners who have reached age 65 and owned a homestead qualified property in Maine for 10 years. 

3 years ago

Property tax stabilization for seniors

The Maine Legislature has created new law regarding the taxation of property owners who  have reached age sixty-five and owned a homestead qualified property in Maine for ten years.  

3 years ago

The longest-serving councilor

It is perhaps fitting, with the recent elections to Presque Isle City Council, that we speak about the longest serving City Council member in Presque Isle’s history.  
Allen Crane Tibbetts Wilson was born in Bangor, Maine on March 23, 1866.  He was one of five children and, after marriage, had five of his own.

3 years ago

Giving thanks for angels in my life

I received the ornament I have been waiting for. It is a yellow submarine and Santa himself is sitting right about where the periscope should be.  He is the traditional St. Nick, with chubby, cherry cheeks and lustrous white hair.  The submarine is decorated with sugar drops; green, orange, yellow and pink. 

3 years ago

Colonial ancestry

In my last column I discussed the differences between the Puritans of Massachusetts Bay Colony and the Pilgrims of Plymouth. Millions of Americans descend from these Protestant settlers and quite often have ancestors from both colonies. You probably do if your ancestors were here in New England in the 17th or 18th century.