The Chamber has created a special COVID-19 website page on which we are posting the most current information and resources from local, state and federal sources as well as from relevant business organizations. We encourage everyone, particularly our local businesses, to check the page frequently. We are updating this page daily as new information becomes […]
Stephanie Dellavalle
Stephanie Dellavalle has been the general manager and editor of The Rangeley Highlander since 2013 and writes about the community and events in the area. A graduate of Hunter College in NYC, she and her husband are empty-nesters who live in the village of Oquossoc in Rangeley.
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Watch and Learn
One of the first things I learned as a youngster was when to be quiet and just watch. There was more than once that I mistakenly said something. From the first day of school in 1951 right up to now, I speak when I should just sit and listen. But through it all, I did […]
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Rangeley Alumni Association Annual Meeting
The Annual Meeting of the Rangeley Alumni Association will be held September 12, 2020 at 9:30AM at 2632 Main Street in Rangeley. Anyone who has attended Rangeley schools in the past is invited to join us. Due to the Coronavirus we are not having our yard sale this year. Please save all your wonderful items […]
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Winners Awarded for Community Art Project in Rangeley
At the Community Art Project Awards Ceremony which was held on the rain date of Sunday, August 30 at 5:30 PM, ribbons and checks were awarded to winners in three categories. Anna Shirley received the most votes for “Happiest,” John Hooper Received the most votes for TOIWBIIC – “The One I Would Buy If I […]
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Wonder of the Woods
I think we can all agree that life is about the journey. It’s often the unexpected discoveries along the path that are equally, if not more gratifying than the anticipated finds however great. I was happy to take a full day off this past Sunday to take the Edible and Wild Mushroom Workshop. Offered by […]
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Letters to the Editor
Impressions from “Away” Masks or no masks, that is the question I come from MA and have been coming to Rangeley in the summers for a week or two for at least 25 years, staying at Loon Lake in various cottages. I love Rangeley , Loon Lake and the people of Rangeley. This year seemed a bit of a challenge because of […]
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Thumbs Up/Thumbs Down
THUMBS UP to the person who found my wallet with credit and debit cards as well as cash in the IGA parking lot and turned it in with everything intact. Thank you. It validates my belief that the vast majority of people possess honesty and integrity. THUMBS UP to the honest neighborly folk who put […]
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From the Appliance Graveyard….The Bread Machine
Bread, in all its various forms, is the most consumed food in the world, it’s portable and compact which has explained its place in our diets for thousands of years, where it was suggested that humans started baking bread at least 30,000 years ago. So how did we get from stone cooked flat bread to […]
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Rio De Janeiro has the “Christ the Redeemer” Statue… Madrid (Maine) now has the “Light of the World Cross” !
I possess, among many other traits, an abiding curiosity. A couple of weeks ago, while driving back to Rangeley on a Saturday morning from a small, socially-distanced, gathering of good friends in Yarmouth the prior evening, and not being in any particular hurry, I thought I would get a closer look at what looks like […]