PHILLIPS — Last Friday, the Annual Old Home Days (OHD) Parade wound its way down Park and Main Streets for the 63rd time. This year’s theme, My Favorite Season, brought several creative entries of all shapes and sizes, before the thousands of spectators from near and far who lined the route. Following the Parade, folks […]

We are currently able to accept surrenders on an emergency and space available basis.  If the need to surrender is not urgent, we can help provide you with pet food and supplies from our Pet Food Pantry. Please call us for an appointment at (207) 778-2638 during our office hours, Monday through Saturday, Noon to […]

I had to take a week off from the column three weeks ago when “Nope” opened at #1 at the domestic box office. While I’m not sorry that I gave all my attention to a wedding that weekend (shoutout to my Uncle John and new aunt Amy!), it is a shame that this movie didn’t […]

I love movies like “Bullet Train.” Get a bunch of thieves, assassins, and criminal types in a compact space and watch them careen and bounce off each other like bumper cars for two hours. It helps that I also like trains. Taking a train out of Penn Station in New York City is my favorite […]

Franklin County Animal Shelter lobby, kitten, and available adult cat rooms are open to the public Monday to Saturday, Noon to 4 p.m. We are performing dog adoptions by appointment.  Please call us at 207-778-2638 during our office hours to schedule. The pets of the week this week are Newt and Azalea Newt, is a […]

On more than one level, “DC League of Super-Pets” falls right between “The Secret Life of Pets” and “The Lego Movie.” Like “The Secret Life of Pets,” the movie is an animated comedy that follows domesticated animals whose voices can’t be understood by humans as they learn to make friends for themselves without their coddling […]

PHILLIPS – The Narrow Gauge Quilters will stage their annual quilt show at the Phillips Library Studio on August 19 and 20, the Friday and Saturday of Phillips Old Home Days (OHD) from 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. This year’s theme is “A Stitch in Time”. Admission is free. This group of local quilters was […]

While the Franklin County Animal shelter does allow for same-day adoptions, they reserve the right to place the animals in the home that we feel will best fit their needs, which sometimes means we may deny an application for a specific animal. If you are a dog owner seeking to adopt another dog, a meet-and-greet […]

Franklin County Animal Shelter would love to talk to you about the adoptable animals, so contact us, or better yet, come visit–maybe you’ll meet your new fur-ever friend! Their hours are Monday through Saturday, noon to 4 p.m. The pets of this week are Ducky and Casper. Hi!! I’m Ducky! I’m an over seven year […]

“Where the Crawdads Sing” is being pushed as one of those literary adaptations that kicks off a whole litany of adaptations. We had magic and fantasy with “Harry Potter,” supernatural romances with “Twilight,” dystopian ordeals with “The Hunger Games,” and that weird trend of relationships complicated by increasingly rare diseases with “The Fault in Our […]