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Keep farmers closer

T-shirts, like bumper stickers, shrink-wrap extensive concepts into short, pithy slogans.

Important frost notice and autumn hurricanes

Because of the two consecutive cold nights a week and a half ago, with frost for many and a freeze for some, the NWS in Caribou has ended their frost-freeze program for the season for all of Aroostook County.

The smells of fall

As fall comes creeping in, as it usually does. It brings aromas from the wooded areas that are hard to forget. During harvest I remember the leaves having fallen from the trees and the smells they brought forth as we walked among the trees at lunch time.

Epitaph

Animal behaviorists once asserted that companion animals do not think, an eyebrow raising statement to most owners.

Cartoon of the week (week of September 12, 2018)

By E.A. Williams

In remembrance of potato harvests past

Another day like yesterday. Wake up before dawn. Eat breakfast in the dark, in the silence of the dark before dawn.

BikeMaine is now just days away

It seems like just days rather than seven months ago when the Bicycle Coalition of Maine announced that sixth annual BikeMaine event would be coming to Aroostook County

Small potatoes

Historically speaking, however peculiar our growing season (and 2018 has thus far been a doozy), some crops on a small, diversified farm seem to have a good year.

Cartoon of the week (week of August 29, 2018)

By E.A. Williams

We need to keep Acadia vibrant

Acadia National Park is the crown jewel of Maine tourism and the economic backbone of the surrounding communities and our state.

Cartoon of the week (week of August 15, 2018)

By E.A. Williams

Landfill merger means new method for recycling

The Presque Isle Landfill and Tri-Community Landfill in Fort Fairfield will be merging operations effective Jan. 1, 2019. Presque Isle, Caribou, Fort Fairfield, and Limestone will all combine their solid waste infrastructure and be owners of a new entity that will be known as Aroostook Waste Solutions.

Coping with bugs

I’ve seen a few Allagash Wilderness Waterway canoe trips get cut short because people were ill prepared for black flies.

To be or not to be… Storm ready

Well, in the case of the Branson, Missouri, deadly duck boat sinking back on the 19th of July, it was most assuredly “not to be”, as in, not to be Storm Ready.

Lobstah Fishin’

Did you ever have a time when you or someone else began to tell a story and everybody hung on every word?

The fair: building on a good thing

Fair time. Hot, humid and fun arrive in the middle of summer. This year was no exception.

Imagine your own Heaven in these complicated times

It has always been my thought that the stars are, in actuality, pinholes in the floor of Heaven. The brilliant light that escapes down into the universe is visible to us in tiny increments of pure white beams; arranged in patterns to add further delight to the wonder of it all.

Fools of history

In the last little while it’s been hard avoiding making comments on what’s happening on the national scene.

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