Genetic testing is helping identify older varieties of Maine apples, and may promise more delicious, more diverse fruit in our future.
baking
Posted inNews
A mother’s chocolate cake brings up the kitchen confessions of writer Monica Wood
The cake appears in her memoir, and at many a family occasion. But don’t ask Wood to bake it.
advertisement
Posted inBusiness, Maine
‘Donut Day’ at the Amish Community Market in Unity brings people together
Wednesday mornings, when doughnuts are freshly made, are a community staple.
Posted inNews
Where has all the flour gone? Ask Maine’s home-bound bakers.
Mainers turn to bread, cookies and pastries for comfort, emptying grocery shelves of baking supplies and expanding their waistlines.
Posted inNews
Wild blueberries in January? Time to go to bat for Maine’s troubled, iconic fruit
Most of the crop is frozen, anyway, so resolve this year to eat more of what may be the healthiest – and tastiest – berry there is.
Posted inThe Rangeley Highlander
Scrappy Chef: Muffin Man, Muffin Man, an Appliance Graveyard Rescue
Many uses of muffin pans and brownie recipe!
Posted inObituaries, sj-web
Pauline S. Boilard
LEWISTON — Pauline S. Boilard 63, a resident of Gilmar Avenue in Lewiston, passed away unexpectedly Saturday, Sept. 15, at Central Maine Medical Center, with her loving family by her side. She was born in Lewiston on March 23, 1955, the daughter of Romeo and Gertrude (Lagasse) Cloutier. Pauline was a graduate of Lewiston High School. […]
Posted inObituaries, sj-web
Alberta Briggs Morris
TURNER — Alberta Briggs Morris, a lifelong resident of Turner, passed away peacefully on Sept. 12. She was born Nov. 15, 1928, the youngest daughter of Hugh Cary Briggs and Lucy Lee Adams. As a young woman she met and married Nathan William Morris, a young man who worked on the farm of her parents. Alberta […]
Posted inObituaries, sj-web
Betty K. Whitney
MILFORD, Mass. — Betty (Kershner) Whitney, 86, of Milford, Mass., formerly of Bellingham, Mass., passed away Friday, April 20. She was surrounded by family and friends at her Cornerstone residence in Milford. She was the wife of the late Lawrence W. Whitney who died in 2007. Mrs. Whitney was born Aug. 3, 1931, in Farmington, the […]
Posted inObituaries, sj-web
Patricia C. Bolduc
LEWISTON — Patricia C. Bolduc, 75, of Lewiston, died unexpectedly on Thursday, March 29, at Central Maine Medical Center. Born in Auburn on Oct. 12, 1942, she was the daughter of Wallace and Doris Morin Letourneau. Educated in local schools, she was a graduate of Edward Little High School, Class of ’59. On Nov. 21, 1964, […]