Editorial

Spice up your research for the new year

Genealogists are like most people. We tend to get in a rut and to feel most comfortable with the familiar, and we remain in that rut when we research. We visit the same libraries, focus on certain websites, and subscribe to the same publications year after year.

We are all in this together

As residents, business owners, councilors, managers and employees, we all have a common interest in the past, present, and future well-being of the City of Presque Isle.

This dog went to heaven

I am thinking back to a time in the woods. This was not exactly hunting, which I never experienced. My brother Leonard and I were in grade school when we were walking in our woods, not far in. We saw tracks, had no idea what had made them and decided to follow. So of course, we were tracking, but what?

The County makes good things grow

The South Koreans make much with little space. The County could learn a lot. Potato fields no longer feed spuds like they used to. In the last 40 years the acreage has declined. This is not bad. It is a sign that we are maturing as a farming area.

1 degree of separation

During November, we’ve had a few evening “freeze ups,” where wet roads became icy, as the temperatures fell below the freezing mark.