In its Sixtieth season, the Rangeley Lakes Historical Society concluded perhaps its best season ever! Success can be measured sin so many ways in the non-profit world, but if one looks at number of visits to its museum, it truly was a banner year. The Rangeley History Museum on Main Street had over 1100 souls […]
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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UPcoming AE classes
Rangeley Adult Education upcoming classes: DEC. 3RD- WREATHMAKING Workshop- Dec.3rd- Tuesday, 6:00- 7:30 ($25) DEC. 10TH- Felting- Tuesday afternoons- 4 sessions starting- starting Dec. 10th -12:30- 1:30 ($20) JAN. 7th- Intro. to Culinary Arts- 4 Tuesdays starting JANUARY 7th- 6:30-8:30 ($100) All classes to be held in DOWNTOWN RANGELEY- Limited Space. Call 670-5240 or email […]
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Book discussions at Loon Lodge with Wess Connally
Winter book discussions begin at 5:30 p.m., and are held at Loon Lodge, 16 Pickford Road in Rangeley. Scheduled discussions are: Jan. 30: “Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption,” by Bryan Stevenson. Stevenson was a young lawyer when he founded the Equal Justice Initiative, a legal practice dedicated to defending those most desperate […]
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Rangeley Skating Club offers free skating on Haley Pond
Picture a quintessential scene of a New England winter, ice skating on a pond. That’s what we have here in downtown Rangeley. It’s like a little bit of Norman Rockwell. About 13 years ago a few local people decided they wanted an ice rink on Haley Pond in downtown Rangeley. So began the scraping and […]
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Of Rangeley (and sci-fi) in winters past
At the risk of sounding like an old-timer exaggerating the severity of winters gone by, I must say that the Rangeley winters of the early- to mid-1970’s were a whole lot tougher than those of recent years. In 1972, I owned a primitive cabin on Mooselookmeguntic, complete with no running water, a woodstove and a […]
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Prepare for a sledding adventure
Winter holidays are made all the more merry with the addition of some outdoor recreation. Sleighs and sleds are par for the Christmas course, especially when a bounty of snow is in the forecast. Sledding has been part of snowy celebrations for ages. Sledding is a fun-filled activity, but it can be made an even […]
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5th Annual Winterpaloozah!
Winterpaloozah! is growing in its success as a winter event in Rangeley. The Cardboard Sled Race starts the day. Creatively made sleds zip down a small hill on the pond hoping to win the fastest time prize. A prize is also awarded for best sled design. Then come the dogs. The Dog Keg Pull has […]
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Have You Ever Heard of the Elizabeth Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston?
If you have, then you likely can answer my second question in the affirmative; Have you ever heard of “The Biggest Art Theft in American History?” That huge (in value) art theft indeed occurred at the E.S. Gardner Museum in the early morning hours of March 18, 1990 when two thieves dressed as Boston policemen […]
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First deer, lasting lessons
JOY CLOUGH- NOTE: The following was written by my daughter and first guest columnist, Becky Clough. In early November, while at home in Maine, I shot my first deer. It was a gorgeous, golden fall morning a mere three days into the season, when a brawny buck with an early rut on the mind strode […]