Editorials

4 years ago

A new chapter

After seven-plus years of dialysis I now have a new kidney. 
Dialysis happens when your kidneys fail to filter out the toxins that are produced or ingested by your body.

4 years ago

Choose to be happy

We cannot always be sweet. What a revelation that is. Everyday life and human nature very often put a wrinkle in our resolve to handle everything with a smile as we go humming along the pathway of life. 

4 years ago

Maine lawmakers must stand up to Big Pharma

About 9,000 Mainers get the horrible news that they have some form of cancer every year. In 2016, one of those Mainers was a young woman in Limestone, who learned that she had breast cancer.

4 years ago

Dangerous buildings

In recent years the Presque Isle Code Enforcement Office has been more active in condemning buildings as unsafe and dangerous.  There are certain criteria and guidelines that the city follows in declaring a building dangerous and unsafe. 

4 years ago

Myths of Ellis Island

Ellis Island has the mystique of being the premier port of entry for immigrants.  But many of the stories about the island have no foundation in fact.  If you think your ancestors entered the U.S. through Ellis Island, you could be right — or are you? 

4 years ago

Celebrating the Grange legacy

July is National Grange Month. Yet many people today are unfamiliar with the Grange and the debt society owes this organization. 

4 years ago

The love button

As we, as a County people, emerge from the clutches of COVID,  I find myself challenged to reflect upon what was lost and what was gained over the months of mourning and method whether mental or physical.

4 years ago

Recycling and litter

As the weather has warmed, a familiar problem has been revealed — litter.  Litter at some of our recycling igloo locations has become a significant issue, and one that we are asking for the public’s help with.  

4 years ago

Patois: more of the letter D

J’ commence quissement a croire que la frontière international pourais ouvrir un jour. Ca fait tellement longtemps qu’ont a pas cousiné d’un bôrd a l’autre.