The announcement of slower first class mail is an insult to those of us elderly who don’t wish to get totally sucked into online banking and bill paying. I have said in the past “We used to be a rich country when they brought milk to our door”. Now, vendors who don’t deliver stellar customer […]

Bill Toms will be at the Rangeley Public Library on Wednesday, September 15th, at 6:00 PM to discuss his newly published book, Quiet Lives. Toms practiced family medicine with what is now Dartmouth-Hitchcock for 27 years. Upon retirement in 2005, he started to see patients at Rangeley Family Medicine, at first full-time, covering a maternity […]

MOOSELOOK LAKE – A rare location on Bald Mountain Road. Beautiful waterfront farmhouse located on a 2.37 acre lot with 200 feet of sandy beach frontage on the eastern shore. Views of unspoiled shoreline with no development across the lake. Enjoy lots of sun all day long and evening sunsets with western exposure. Home features […]

Organizer Mary Hembrow is pleased to announce that BINGO is back! Have some fun with a great group of people this month on September 15 from 1 to 3 p.m. at the Rangeley Town House, 14 School Street. It’s all free, including candy and everyone is welcome!

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Sometime toward the end of July, some of my friends and I gathered to discuss our latest book group selection “American Wolf” by Nate Blakeslee. The book had been recommended by Jackie Morton and she was nice enough to stop by and provide some insight into a topic that most of us in the group […]

The View from Mrs. Priest’s 4th Grade Classroom 1953-1954 and How Public Health Came to Rangeley A few years ago, on the second floor of a vaguely familiar converted school building in Northern New England, I studied the globe lights suspended overhead, scrutinized the tall, tall windows, noticed the radiators and hardwood floors and, for […]

John P. Schinas- 6/16/1937 – 11/27/2020 History loves a legend, a being conveniently enlarged with anecdote and subjective preference.    But, then there are the facts, ma’am, just the facts. Born in 1937 into a large Greek family in Buffalo, NY, John was shuttled between parents, step parents, and eventually raised by his English grandmother. […]

  The class of 1981 celebrated their 40 year reunion Aug 20-22. The weekend kicked off Friday night with dinner at the Country Club Inn. Saturday was a cookout hosted by Bill & Denise Mercier’s on beautiful dodge pond where $1,626.00 was raised at the auction for the Douglas White & Cody Collins Memorial Scholarship. […]