2020
Letter from a cat
To the Editor: Human; There will come a day when you will miss me curling around your legs as you rise in the morning. There will come a time when you will look into the moonless sky and see me darting from pool of dark to pool of dark. You will feel me hop up […]
Letter from a cat
To the Editor: Human; There will come a day when you will miss me curling around your legs as you rise in the morning. There will come a time when you will look into the moonless sky and see me darting from pool of dark to pool of dark. You will feel me hop up […]
Meal cancelled
The annual Christmas Lunch at Grace Fellowship Church in Oxford from 12-2 p.m. on Dec. 25th has been cancelled due to the COVID-19 restrictions, etc.
Woodstock eyes recreational marijuana, MUBEC adoption
WOODSTOCK — Woodstock selectmen are pondering a request for a recreational marijuana ordinance, and are also mulling whether the town should adopt the Maine Uniform Building and Energy Code (MUBEC). At a meeting earlier this month, resident Chandler Simpkins asked the board to consider a recreational marijuana ordinance that would allow growing and wholesale selling, […]
Churches, worshippers adapt to socially distanced Christmas
Churches modify their Christmas Masses during a surge in the coronavirus pandemic.
On this date in Maine history: Dec. 24
Dec. 24, 2018: Incumbent U.S. Rep. Bruce Poliquin, R-2nd District, drops his federal lawsuit claiming that he, not Democrat Jared Golden, should have won the Nov. 6 election for his seat. Golden was declared the winner under Maine’s new ranked-choice voting system. Running for re-election against three challengers, Poliquin was the top vote-getter, but fell […]
COVID strikes again in SAD 44
BETHEL — SAD 44 schools closed for Christmas vacation two days early following a confirmed case of COVID-19 at Crescent Park School. The two missed days will be considered “traditional no school days,” according to an instant alert message sent out on Dec. 18. Over the weekend the school reached out to people who may […]