Suzy likes to pirouette from room to room on her tippy toes. Jose spends hours in the yard studying ants and lizards. And little Claire is a neatnik who puts away the groceries in alphabetical order. Every child is born with a gift, an ability to dance or analyze or organize. Parents, however, don’t always […]

Every Sunday morning and Wednesday afternoon, the Androscoggin County Fish & Game Association opens its Auburn gate and lets the public in to shoot. “You do not have to be a member,” said Don Chouinard of Sabattus. “The only difference is you pay $1 more than members.” Summer Sundays can pull in 35 to 40 […]

It’s hard to talk about cheese making without mentioning the nursery rhyme. We all know Little Miss Muffet and her curds and whey, but they took on new meaning last week at the St. Mary’s Nutrition Center of Maine when 15 class participants explored the world of cheese with Denise Dill, community cooking educator. From […]

Steff Deschenes started as a “beer girl,” wearing campy costumes to promote specific beer brands to bar, restaurant and event patrons. That turned into a gig as New England retail brand merchandiser and marketing specialist for Guinness. Today she’s operations and retail manager for the Baxter Brewing Company, the brew house opening next year in […]

Man, oh man. Did we strike gold. For today’s feature, we have nearly two dozen of the world’s funniest people on the planet. We don’t have to pay them and, in fact, most of them don’t know we’re using their work at all. These comics don’t work the clubs and they’re not trying to sell […]

The friendly skies Now we can all look forward to heavy petting at the airport whenever we have to fly. It’s a pity, because airports were always such fun places before. Many plan to boycott the airlines until this hysteria is over. For the rest of you, there are a few choices: Suck it up […]

I’ll be honest. When I first stepped into the hallowed halls of Cavalier Bingo, I was hoping like hell that I wouldn’t win a single game. Too dangerous, the idea. I was a rookie, a rube. I didn’t know how to select cards for the game, let alone play it. In my mind – the […]

The article about absentee ballots — talk about sour grapes. If your election campaign hinges on last-minute media, not what your goals in office are, I’m glad you lost. I vote my conscience and ignore everything but recorded facts that I check myself. More people should do research early on and ignore the election hype. […]