Category: Columns & Letters

A tom turkey displays his wings for the ladies on Orr’s Island. (ED ROBINSON PHOTO) May is...

The World Health Organization needs my help. If you haven’t heard, the current COVID...

A traditional baked bean supper. (KATHY D’AGOSTINO PHOTO) Driving by the now-closed B&M...

I was recently asked to consider writing a column about the positive things about growing old....

I deeply admire the tenacity of door-to-door vacuum sellers. Or should it be admired? This scene...

Excerpts from and commentary on letters home to Joseph Alexander, of Harpswell, from his friends...

Spring is in the air here in Maine … finally. Beneath the melting snow and ice are blooms and...

As time marches forward, many students face more pressure than ever before to excel, academically,...

More than half of the blacklegged or deer ticks in Maine carry the Lyme disease microbe, Borrelia...

As if my glasses had been epoxied to my face, my tears froze at the junction of metal frames and...

There are days when what to make for dinner is the last thing you want to think about....

How do you like your Regards served? Warm? Sometimes I get letters from folks who close by heating...

The Mt. Ararat High School girls basketball team has been making a slam dunk this season. They...

I received two packages today from commercial sources that proudly proclaim that prompt, free...

Another season’s sap flows from a maple tree on Harpswell Neck. (KARA DOUGLAS PHOTO) Welcome...