Artist, wife, mother to many, Arlene MacKillop, holds the cane

Arlene MacKillup recalls Bryant Pond, her life as an artist, wife and mother. As the oldest citizen, she holds the cane at 97.

Reprint from the Sun Journal in 1983: ‘Information please…’ The operators know all

While constantly plugging new connections into the switchboard in front of them and timing long-distance calls, the two operators at the Bryant Pond Telephone Co. must also be authorities on all kinds of local information.

Western Maine town the last to use hand-crank phones in the U.S.

'The lure of high-tech, touch-tone and total privacy won out in a two-year battle with nostalgia and the human element,' announced the Sunday Sun Journal. 'The crank phone is dead. Long live call forwarding.'

Area racers in cycling series say group ‘almost like family’

Bicyclists from Auburn, Farmington, Lewiston and Topsham glad to be back on track for conclusion of Scarborough Crit Series.

‘It’s almost like family’

Bicyclists glad to be back on track racing in Maine.

UMaine to offer summer outdoor leadership program

Youth mentoring pilot helps kids aspire to community connections, adventures

Aspirations Incubator is in its third year of a six-year pilot project for rural youth. SAD 44 is one of six Maine groups participating, led by Bryant Pond's 4-H Center's Lyndsey Smith.

Photo: Best friends fish in Woodstock

Merrymeeting Audubon to offer camp scholarships

Celebrating 90 in style