AFCI We are looking for volunteers to help with the N2N Rides program. Are you interested in driving your community neighbors who can’t drive themselves? Or maybe you’d rather volunteer from your home. We are looking for phone coordinators to monitor our phone message system, return calls to clients and enter requests into our simple […]

AFCI is solidly back in the rides business – to anything in our local area. Need to grocery shop? Want to visit a friend? Interested in a community event? Have a doctor’s appointment? Call 207-824-4444 to reach our N2N (Neighbor to Neighbor) Rides program. Community Bethel Chamber of Commerce website (www.bethelmaine.com) for community events, including […]

I watched a pickup truck going across the ice on Umbagog Lake Saturday. I don’t know how far it went, but it did go out of sight beyond Big Island. I wonder how thick the ice is. There have been a few mornings lately that about 6 o’clock I have had a Jack Daniels pick-me-up. […]

Change is in the air, and it’s downright electric. Carbon-free renewables, their technology, and their economics have reached a stage that brightens our prospects for meaningful reductions in the greenhouse gas emissions that have threatened the future world of our descendants. It may actually be possible to start feeling good about something. Like, instead of […]

This sounds like a great series: Oxford County Soil and Water Conservation District is partnering with the University of Maine Cooperative Extension to offer a series of workshops based around the theme of homesteading. The workshops will be offered monthly between February and June and will cover topics such as maple sugaring, pruning fruit trees, […]

It’s hard to believe, but by the time you read this, January will be almost half over. Everyone always talks about what a long month it is, and it certainly can seem that way some years, but I’ve been so busy lately that I seem to have lost track of an entire week. I was […]

It sure is cold this Saturday afternoon. I am glad I don’t have to go anywhere. Did you know that in Germany most people leave their Christmas trees up until Jan. 6, which is Three Kings Day? Most families don’t decorate their trees until the afternoon of Christmas Eve, which may be why they leave […]

It’s hard to find any news this week except talk about the pandemic and the good snowstorm we had on Friday, although I still haven’t heard any snowmobiles. One imagines that the snow is not deep enough to cover up the rocks on some trails, which would discourage riders.  For great snowmobiling, cross country, and […]