In a year of incredible unrest and uncertainty, one things that remains true, food still brings people together. Don’t risk, people, getting or being infected and passing that on to family members, just because you just had to be together. Especially those of you who work on the front lines, school systems and other public […]

For many years, Patty and Frank Cerminara, along with their extended family, have put on an amazing spaghetti supper each February to benefit the Rangeley Public Library. The community comes together each year to enjoy good food and one another’s company. This year, with the ongoing pandemic, the Library has made the difficult decision not […]

If you hunted on private land this fall, show your appreciation for Maine’s generous landowners: Thank them at the end of the season and share how your hunting season went. Landowners especially enjoy seeing photos of youth hunters, or neat photos you may have captured on your game cameras (remember, you must have written permission […]

The Rangeley Board of Selectmen convened their November 16, 2020 meeting at 6:02pm. The Board of Selectmen presented Ella Shaffer, a student at RLRS and daughter of Selectman Ethan Shaffer, a proclamation recognizing her as the State of Maine Poetry Out Loud Champion.  Performing poet Ella Shaffer, Coach Tim Straub and Mentor Kate Philbrick were […]

Birds flittering around the neighborhood are a common sight during spring and summer, and these welcome guests can be enjoyable to observe as they nest, feed and interact. When the weather cools in fall and winter, many birds seek out warmer climates, but a good number of these feathered friends stick around. Certain birds can […]

Birds flittering around the neighborhood are a common sight during spring and summer, and these welcome guests can be enjoyable to observe as they nest, feed and interact. When the weather cools in fall and winter, many birds seek out warmer climates, but a good number of these feathered friends stick around. Certain birds can […]

It happened yesterday, as I write this. It happened last week, as you read this. I had just climbed out of my car in front of Backwoods, after donning my face mask and starting to head for the post office across the street during last Thursday’s cold mid-morning…I quickly changed direction by about 40 degrees […]

What follows are some clippings from the pages of the November 29, 1895 edition of the RANGELEY LAKES newspaper. (Editor’s note: Contemporary commentary in italics, otherwise copy is reprinted just as it was in 1895). What follows is the last stanza of a poem called “Thanksgiving” by Elizabeth Akers Allen that appeared on Page 1. […]

If we have all the toys we want in life, we should feel fulfilled. With Christmas creeping up soon and Covid beating the hell out of us, our mailman’s mail sack has been loaded with so many new catalogs, many we have never heard of, but interesting to look at, and good throne reading! Catalogs […]