To the Editor: I am a candidate for the MSAD 44 Board of Directors and I ask for your vote on June 14, or sooner if you choose to vote absentee at your town office ahead of election day. I have lived on Mechanic Street in Bethel for twenty-three years, during which time I have […]
2022
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Extension offers food-preserving webinar
STATE — University of Maine Cooperative Extension is offering a new series of monthly webinars about preserving Maine foods starting June 16, from noon–12:45 p.m. “Common Home Food Preservation Ingredients and Equipment” topics include recommended equipment and ingredients for canning and freezing, as well as how to resolve common problems. UMaine Extension instructors will lead […]
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Education: Physical Plant
Modern education requires complex facilities. MSAD 44 builds and renovates, repairs, and maintains. For many years Ron Deegan has looked after all that. He retires in June, reminding us that we need to train people in many areas: occupational health and safety, asbestos abatement, plant operations, budgeting… The big four in cost and importance are […]
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Backyard Reflections: The Lilliputian world of mosses
Over the winter I re-read Robin Wall Kimmerer’s book “Gathering Moss,” trying to conjure up the southwestern face of trillium rock, which was, until recently, buried under two feet of snow. For three seasons of the year, this large nubbly granite boulder is covered by emerald, sage green mosses and lichens. For many years, I […]
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Community Band to play June concert
BETHEL — Mahoosuc Community Band will play a concert Monday evening, June 13, at 7 p.m. at the Bethel Common gazebo. Patricia Boyle-Wight will direct the concert. It will include Also Sprach Zarathustra (Theme for 2001 movie) by Richard Strauss, The Genius of Ray Charles arranged by Michael Brown, A Gershwin Portrait arranged by John […]
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Housing costs no longer a burden for Sea Dogs players earning $600 a week
For the first time, Major League Baseball teams are supplying apartments for minor league players who had struggled to find suitable housing in years past.
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To the Editor: Who would believe how far we’d fall in this short time? We went from John Wayne’s ‘True Grit’, to Don Knotts’ ‘Shakiest Gun in the West’. From prosperity, to calamity. Robustness…to near hopelessness. We need to right this ship. This experiment has blown up in our faces. It’s like 8th grade chemistry […]
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Extension offers food-preserving webinar
STATE — University of Maine Cooperative Extension is offering a new series of monthly webinars about preserving Maine foods starting June 16, from noon–12:45 p.m. “Common Home Food Preservation Ingredients and Equipment” topics include recommended equipment and ingredients for canning and freezing, as well as how to resolve common problems. UMaine Extension instructors will lead […]
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Graduations
UNH DURHAM, NH — William Rolfe of West Paris graduated from the University of New Hampshire over the weekend of May 20-22, 2022. He earned an MSW degree in Social Work. Students who received the honor Summa Cum Laude graduated with a GPA of 3.85-4.0: Students who received the honor of Magna Cum Laude graduated […]
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Field Days at Tidewater Farm June 16
FALMOUTH — University of Maine Cooperative Extension Field Days at Tidewater Farm will be held from 5–6:30 p.m. on June 16 in Falmouth. Experience and learn about the gardens at Tidewater Farm, and engage in hands-on demonstrations with UMaine Extension Staff and Master Gardener Volunteers. Demonstrations begin at 5:30 p.m., and include such topics as […]