Be ‘in the know’ about blowing snow
Blowing snow is one of The County’s most lethal weather hazards, cutting visibility on the roads all the way down to hood-of-your-car distance.
Blowing snow is one of The County’s most lethal weather hazards, cutting visibility on the roads all the way down to hood-of-your-car distance.
It was Christmas Eve, 2017; my first Christmas without my husband, Dale. My sister, Lisa, and I had spent the majority of the night visiting friends, ingesting magical holiday fare, and exchanging gifts.
The older I become, the more convinced I am of one thing: I will never outgrow Christmas.
With the end of the year approaching, we would like to pass on some information about the upcoming holidays and the newest update on the merger of the Presque Isle Landfill with Tri-Community Landfill.
In 1957, our nation was privileged to see the movie: “The Miracle Worker.”
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?
It’s been wisely recommended that I explain what the ‘affliction’ is that I occasionally mention in my articles. I have no problem with that, but it does make me realize that I’ve been coy about it as though I might somehow be ashamed to have it. I have multiple sclerosis; MS for short.
In the 80 years they’ve been keeping records at Caribou, this snow season is now one of only three years in which 30 or more inches of snow had fallen by the end of November.
With a “sense of stabbing pain” (as Winston Churchill intoned at the onset of WWII war clouds), I can scan and sense a remarkable change in north central Aroostook County, not just impacting our legendary dark skies, but also infecting the very rhythm of our daily lives.