I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: the Rev. Doug Taylor has style.

Each year, I respond to his tirade on the evils of Halloween.

Each year, he finds a clever way to voice his disagreement.

This year, after I’d boasted of my plans to cavort as a vampire on the big night, Taylor went traditional.

One afternoon earlier in the week, he dropped off a package at the customer service desk at the front of the newspaper office.

A colleague carried the envelope into the newsroom and handed it to me.

Inside: a box containing two healthy bulbs of garlic, the most common means of keeping fanged bloodsuckers at bay.

On the side of the box, a business card announcing the reverend’s Jesus Party.

A spicy stroke of genius. In a game of back-and-forth opinions and debates argued through the written word, Doug Taylor is a feisty opponent and a classy one, at that.

– Mark LaFlamme
Cheerio!

So you think that squirrels only like nuts?

Think again.

When the Johnson family in Lewiston saved a baby squirrel from certain death, they started him out on puppy formula, nuts and crackers.

Until Reggie discovered Cheerios.

Yogurt-covered Cheerios to be exact.

He often plowed through a container filled with the regular cereal just to get to the sweet, strawberry-flavored Os.

The unorthodox cuisine didn’t seem to hurt him.

Now fully wild, Reggie scavenges through the woods for his food.

He’s fat and he looks happy.

Although acorns don’t taste as good with milk.

– Lindsay Tice