Winter. Long cold nights. Occasional gloomy days. Time to read. Natural light is great, but winter is winter. Artificial light comes in many forms these days. Warm (yellowish); cool (white, bluish); indirect (bounced off the ceiling); direct (aimed at the page – glare is the problem); quantity (the three-way bulb). To continue thinking about light, […]

I hope everyone is off to a good start in this new year. It is off to a good start, especially for the local kids, as the new ice skating rink opened up recently. Linda and Neil Olson are a couple of very proud grandparents. Their grandson Griffin Aube is going to be a teacher, […]

Happy New Year to all and a prayer for a better year than 2021. The sentiment may be old hat by the time you read this, but I’m writing it on New Year’s Day and it’s warm and raining. Not anything most of us want. Snow would be much better as long as it doesn’t […]

Happy New Year!  I’m going to be optimistic as we go into another year of COVID and its variants.  I will continue doing what I have been to try and stay healthy. Last Sunday, Susan and I traveled to Madison, New Hampshire, where we had a great visit with Mike and Penny, and their family. […]

There are two adult education classes that started up in January. Betsy’s Intro to Knitting will be held on Wednesdays from 4-5:30 p.m. This is a six-week program starting on Jan. 19. Students will learn the basics of knitting and make a simple project. Ideas will be presented and depending on the project, some material […]

There were snowmachine tracks on Umbagog Lake Thursday and an ice shack on Friday. Wow! I can’t believe it was safe to do that. I confess that I am gutless when it comes to going on lake ice, but I think someone was a bit too brave. More snow dancing, please. Before last week, COVID […]

I’m writing this on Jan. 2, which the internet tells me is World Introvert Day. I suppose the idea is that we introverts need a day (or many days!) to recover from all the holiday hoopla. But in these pandemic times, the holidays have been just about quiet enough even for me. Still, it’s nice […]

As I write this on the day after Christmas, I’m reminded of a friend who said the following to me around 1970, “There’s nothing so over as Christmas.” The remark came on a Christmas evening after all the festivities were over and there was no music on the car radio that you could label Christmas […]

Oxford County Jail Log for week ending Dec. 27, 2021. PARIS — The following arrests were logged at the Oxford County Sheriff’s Office: Dion Jones, 29, Peru, domestic violence assault, 7:57 a.m., Dec. 22, Peru, Oxford County Sheriff