Christmas has to be the weirdest holiday there is when it comes to gifts, songs, music, decorations, traditions, clothing, food and more. I think I first discovered this when my grandmother introduced me to fruit cake back in the 1960s.
News of the latest high profile properties to change hands on the Boothbay peninsula, and the plans to invest in them, inspire the question, could Wiscasset be next?
When we are young our questions flew out of our mouth very fast. Some were small, “Why?”, and some complex, “How does God talk to everyone on the same day, in different languages, and at the same time?”
No, I don't have H1N1 – a type of influenza – if that's what you're thinking from the headline. I was missing from work Thursday through Sunday, but that was because I need to use up my vacation days for the year.
We, along with other news agencies in Maine, received word this past week of the investigation into the sexual abuse in the Catholic Church in the Diocese of Buffalo, New York.
Wiscasset's curriculum coordinator Patricia Watts has the right outlook on the department's falling short of some of the state averages in student test results.
In the past two weeks, I’ve had the pleasure of bumping into grandmas who spend a great deal of time researching online topics of interest and helping others resolve issues to clear up misconstrued assumptions or improve brain memory.
The fall and winter can be a busy time full of fun activities and travel, but the same activities that bring joy can also negatively impact patients in need of lifesaving transfusions.
It's the countdown to Christmas ... Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, Cyber Monday ... and whatever other special shopping days there are in the five-plus weeks ahead.
Every year since the pilgrim arrivals in Massachusetts, our culture developed the custom of celebrating the year’s harvest on a day titled Thanksgiving beginning in 1621. Today we see this harvesting celebration in a reunion of family, friends, and neighbors.
