This week’s column is brought to you by ascension, helicopters, and apple cake. What do they have in common? Well, if all goes according to plan, they both rise, but other than that, I was inspired to write about helicopters and ascension while making a sweet apple cake. Ascension is written about everywhere and experienced […]

LIVERMORE FALLS — The Jan. 28 First Baptist Church of Livermore Falls service with Pastor Russ Thayer, Keyboards: Maggie Houlihan & Margaret Emery, the Sunday morning service began at 10:30 a.m. after Maggie played pleasing hymn tunes on the organ to set the mood for the morning. Pastor Russ opened the service as he read […]

January 21 Service. The congregation was welcomed by Pastor Bonnie Higgins at 9:30 a.m. to begin the service. The Invocation/Lord’s Prayer were recited. The hymns that were sung were “Love Divine, All Loves Excelling”, “Savior, Like a Shepherd Lead Us”, and “Cleanse Me”. The service ended with “Go Now in Peace”. Linda Lyman is the […]

LIVERMORE FALLS — The First Baptist Church of Livermore Falls Jan., 21 service was opened by Pastor Russ Thayer as he read a few announcements and led us into two Praise Songs: “Praise the Lord With the Sound or Trumpets”, and “Let’s Just Praise the Lord”. He then read the call to worship from Psalm […]

January is human trafficking awareness month. To someone as passionate as I am about ending this crime, it feels like not much has been done except lip service to preventing labor, organ harvesting, or sex trafficking. Still, I realize it depends on the measuring stick. When I first took on raising awareness of this issue […]

Franklin County Animal Shelter, 550 Industry Road, Farmington, is a non-profit animal shelter focused on providing temporary care and shelter to stray, homeless, and abandoned animals within our community. The shelter is a  no-kill shelter, which means animals are never  euthanized due to a lack of space. The lobby, kitten, and available adult cat rooms […]

Of all the pop culture institutions to be canceled, ended, or otherwise shut down by the pandemic in 2020, the permanent closure of the ‘Mean Girls’ Broadway musical was perhaps the one that disappointed me the most. I’m not sure why it wasn’t brought back post-pandemic – ticket sales had clearly been healthy enough to […]

Well! We are well into January 2024! Each week since Christmas has been cleverly marked by a snowstorm. At least, no doubt some entity, somewhere, thought it was clever. I wouldn’t mind any of it if there were snow without rain. Considering the universe didn’t ask my opinion, I’ll have to adjust and be grateful […]

Franklin County Animal Shelter, 550 Industry Road, Farmington, is a non-profit animal shelter focused on providing temporary care and shelter to stray, homeless, and abandoned animals within our community. The shelter is a  no-kill shelter, which means animals are never  euthanized due to a lack of space. The lobby, kitten, and available adult cat rooms […]

NO. LIVERMORE — At the Jan. 14 North Livermore Baptist Church service, the congregation was welcomed by Pastor Bonnie Higgins at 9:30 a.m. to begin the service.  The Invocation/Lord’s Prayer were recited. The hymns that were sung were “Revive Us Again”, “Why Do I Sing About Jesus?”, and “Grace Greater than Our Sin”. The service […]