The RSU78 Board of Education met on November 9, 2021. Board Chair Mary Richards welcomed new board member Kayla Alexander (Rangeley) and provided an update on the board goals for the 2021/2022 school year. Superintendent Georgia Campbell provided an update on COVID-19 cases within the school, the community, and the county. Given the data as […]

You know those Hallmark Christmas scenes so snowy-white perfect you stare at the picture longer than you read the inside of the card? Where the snow blankets the cutesy log cabin, lays a flawlessly glistening path for the storybook critters lingering in and around the puckerbrush, and sparkles off a trim little balsam that somehow […]

The Roger Page Ski & Ride School at Saddleback has some new programs and some new faces. I spoke to one of those new faces this past weekend and I am thinking lessons are a great idea for so many people I know, including myself. Ally Kaiser of New Jersey and Maddy Murphy of Massachusetts, […]

            A chilling sort of awful A strange kind of place A howling in the distance A twisted, crooked face The shadows past the moonlight The step upon the stair The monster in the closet The risk you shouldn’t dare Where prayers are never answered Where luck is always bad […]

Photo by Maine Mountain Media. (www.mainemountainmedia.com) Spencer MendellFebruary 24-26, 7 PM RFA Lakeside Theater, 2493 Main St, Rangeley The Rangeley Friends of the Arts proudly presents the Annual RFA Winter DIVA Show! Rangeley’s own Divas will fill your evening with music and dance as local, talented ladies and gentlemen present some of the best music […]

Christmas Fall gives way to winter, and the ice and bitter cold The youthful year that we once knew now grows so pale and old The snow mounts in mighty drifts, and blocks the streets and ways The sun is seen but few and seldom in these dark and dreary days But hold, in truth […]

The Rangeley Friends of the Arts (RFA) 41st Annual Walk to Bethlehem and Community Christmas Pageant was held on the evening of December 12th. Starting at the Rangeley Inn and winding through downtown, stopping to symbolically be turned away by The Rangeley Free Baptist Church, St. Luke’s Catholic Church, and the Rangeley Congregational Church, Anne […]

River’s Edge Sports Biggest Buck Contest has come to a close, but it was surely an exciting season. The store wound up breaking several of its records. One of them was most contest entries with a total of 188. Another was registering 256 deer. During the season they also tagged 6 deer during archery season […]

  INVESTORS TAKE NOTICE – 2 2BR COTTAGES on scenic Hunter Cove with good 4-season rental potential! Both camps are fully year-round, well maintained, move-in ready, furniture included. Protected frontage with dock, small boat launch. Sweeping lake/Mt views, wildlife galore. Snowmobile trail access from your door, minutes to Oquossoc and Rangeley. Don’t miss this super […]

What follows are some short features found in the December 12, 1895, edition of the RANGELEY LAKES newspaper. (Pierce’s commentary is shared in italics, otherwise the copy has been reprinted just as is) As a Registered Maine Guide, what follows brought back a few memories of some of my past “sports” who had ignored some […]