NEWRY — Step Falls Preserve is closed to the public effective Saturday, August 8. According to the Mahoosuc Land Trust, it made the “difficult decision” to close the preserve because of concerns over a lack of preventive measures, over crowding and other concerns during the COVID-19 pandemic. Having monitored the area closely during July, on […]
A.M. Sheehan
Staff Writer
A.M. Sheehan has been in the news business for 40 years, including time as an editor at the Chatham Courier in N.Y., Kitchenware News, Beachcomber and Dover Community News in N.H., and the Summerville Journal Scene, Georgetown Times, Waccamaw Times and Inlet Outlet in S.C. In Maine she has been an editor for the
Advertiser Democrat, Bethel Citizen, Franklin Journal and Livermore Falls Advertiser, and is currently managing editor for the Sun Journal's group of western Maine weeklies. She is a former journalist of the year in Maine, a Pulitzer finalist and winner of the Michael Kelley Award, the Polk Award and the Casey Medal Award. A.M. enjoys reading, theater, cooking and gardening.
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Norway school resource officer visits all ‘her kids’ this summer
Christina Sugars visited 440 students to deliver belongings, check on their well-being and support their parents.
Posted inThe Bethel Citizen
Backyard Reflections: The Northern White Cedar
When I first moved to the mountains almost 40 years ago I was entranced by the beautiful Northern White Cedars that seemed to grow in such abundance here. On my property I have a number of these magnificent bell shaped trees with their fan-like fronds and clusters of budded green or brown cones that are […]
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Area writers receive the Maine Literary Award
REGION — Kristen Case of Temple and Linda Britt of Wilton have been named recipients of the 2020 Maine Literary Award. The annual award is sponsored by the Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance, which selects one recipient per genre. Britt, who received the award for her play “I Smile, Of Course, And Go On Drinking […]
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Mother Prayer
A prayer for all the ways we are in relationship to the title and role of Mother. may our hearts and minds be spacious and awake as we hold them all in our awareness as equals. For the mothers among us and everywhere, who intimately know the dedication and reward, beauty and heartache of bearing […]