This in from the Edgecomb Eddy School: The third, fourth, and fifth grade classes had a great time at the Conservation Fair in Union, on Thursday, Sept. 29. The students enjoyed learning that Katahdin sheep have hair instead of wool and found it interesting to hear about Max, the Galloway cow. There were also wonderful presentations on blueberry picking, how watersheds work, and nature songs involving sign language. Gee, I didn’t know about the hairy sheep!
Energy Matters Hurricane Lesson
Put a dinner plate in your freezer and let it chill. Put several ice cubes in a frying pan and turn on the heat. The cubes melt and the water evaporates. Hold the chilled dinner plate 10-12 inches above the water boiling in the pan. It will get moist as the water condenses.
Marilyn Beane’s World
Hi, dear readers. Here is your Marilyn Beane’s World columnist with more news of my sweetheart Elden and my lives at Crawford Commons Assisted Living, 132 Middle Road, Union, ME 04862-0628.
Marilyn Beane’s World
Well! Hi, dear readers! Here is your Marilyn Beane’s World columnist with a new week into the month of September with more news of my sweetheart’s and my life at Crawford Commons Assisted Living, 132 Middle Road, Union, ME 04862-0628.
Just a Thought
I knew a local farmer who farmed in a way that was so inefficient that if you tried to do it more inefficiently than he did, you’d fail.
Energy Matters Pricey footprints
Half of Maine’s annual energy bill goes for transportation. It comes to about $3 billion — or $2,256 for every man, woman, and child — and it all leaves our economy. When we say “transportation” in rural Maine, we mean cars and trucks — there is simply nothing else. Or is there? This is no idle question: our population is aging, we can’t afford this expense, and some of us can’t drive much longer. So, let me explore this question a little further.
View From Over the Hill Season's end
Well folks, between the drying-out trees turning color and the frost-hit trees turning, we are getting an extended period of colorful scenery. I have photographed a tree that seems to have colored up earlier than its neighbors. It is the brightest, most defiant red I have seen in ages. I hope you like it. I hope to God they print it in glorious color as our paper can do.
Long Cove
Took a week off. Here’s what you missed: autumn/fall began at 10:21 a.m. on Sept. 22. The temperature was hovering near 80 that day and by the weekend it was in the 60s.
Jefferson
Life here in Jefferson happens this time of year with the glory of the season. There is such a full array of color and beauty as October marches in. Amid the procession of red, orange, and gold leaves, the evergreens stand tall. Autumn brings a thankfulness for pine, balsam, and cedar trees – how bereft we would be without them.
Bristol Area Library
All current members of the Bristol Area Library, located at 619 Old County Road in Pemaquid, are invited to the library’s annual meeting at 6 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 12. Annual reports will be presented and refreshments will be served.
Round Pond
Columbus weekend is upon us and if the colder temps and shorter days are not enough of an indication that fall is here, the dwindling boats in the harbor and the dark, closed-up summer homes leave us without a doubt that we are heading into the long winter.
Alna
Oct. 7, 8, 9, and 10 is the fall work weekend at the WW& F Railway. That means folks will pick up, paint, repair, and clean up. Bet they wouldn’t refuse any help you might want to give.
Truckin’ in America
Hey folks, anyone tired of all the politics yet? How they’re all going to save us from ourselves? Oh my God, the sky is falling! Enough already! If these hopefuls would, as coach Belichick would say, “do your job,” we probably wouldn’t have half the issues we have and we probably would have a much higher caliber of people to pick from to run our great country!
Damariscotta History From the forest of tall white pine and fir trees came the empire of shipbuilding
The portion of beautiful forest land that became known as the white pine belt bordered the sea from Nova Scotia to New Hampshire. So we can plainly see that Maine was truly in the heart and middle of the belt of tall white pine trees that grew to a butt size of 38 inches and a length of over 100 feet. It was no wonder that the King of England laid claim to all white pine 20 inches and over at the butt and 100 feet tall for the Royal Navy.
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