Farmers Market

When the farmer takes a husband

Women are transitioning from traditional roles as the raisers of children (and husbands) to the raisers of livestock, flowers or tomatoes. According to the USDA, over 30 percent of farms in the nation are female owned and operated, and that number is steadily increasing.

Home again

With permission, Thomas Wolfe took the title of his posthumously published novel, “You Can’t Go Home Again,” from another author.

Iron butterfly

Due to cultural or religious reasons, or possibly a very stern stepmother who kept her children locked in the attic for years, there are adults who have managed to avoid addiction to our country’s biggest vice, coffee.

An Eeyore cure

The so-called Dog Days of August historically referred to an apparent increase in mad dogs during the hottest part of summer.

Houlton Tractor Supply to host farmer’s market

Customers of the Houlton Tractor Supply store are invited to shop crafts, produce and other local goods at the “TSC Farmers Market,” Saturday, Oct. 7. From 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., local farmers and crafters will showcase and sell their homemade and homegrown goods in front of the Tractor Supply store at 337 North Street.

State or feds?

You don’t want your first thought upon entering a grocery store to be “Oh, they must have gotten a shipment of fish today.” When the fish counter is all the way in the back of the store and all the fish is packed in ice, if your nose knows, you probably just lost your appetite for fish.