The volunteer Public Safety and Accessibility Collaborative has been operating for over five years with a focus on walking and cycling in Damariscotta. And now it has begun to bring its attention to the needs and opportunities of Newcastle. We’re crossing the bridge.

With so many potential funding changes in the news and on our minds, it seems like a good time to revisit one of America’s most crucial programs, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, known as SNAP.

Wild geese are supposed to fly south in the fall. Their yodeling calls bring us to pause our leaf raking, to look up at the “Vee” of birds heading toward the southern horizon. We may shiver a little and wonder: do we really want to be here through weeks of cold and snow?

I was in the back corner of the barn doing chores when I heard them talking about me.

This article starts in the spring of 1943 when the United States was involved World War II, waging a global war against Germany and Japan.

After seeing my photo, my cousin allowed that her mother spent her inheritance at White Flower Farm. That would be easy to do! Their prices are steep but their quality is unsurpassed. When this basket arrived a couple of weeks ago, there were a couple of green sprouts in the dirt. Once uncovered within three or four days the entire basket was filled with sprouting bulbs of every kind. What a pleasure to see something so colorful and so full of scent this time of year.