Guacamole’s owner serves up burrito lunches to healthcare professionals by Roland D. Hallee Ever the community-conscious entrepreneur, Kevin Joseph, owner of Guacamole’s Mexican sandwich shop on Main St., and You Know Whose Pub, at East Concourse, both in downtown Waterville, has been providing free burrito sandwiches to local front-line health care providers over the past […]
by Roland D. Hallee I have seen and been around brown-tail moth caterpillars before, but this past weekend was my first contact with one. We’ve been doing some extensive outdoors renovations at camp this spring. With the tick population at record high numbers, we’ve been clearing and pushing back growth and decaying leaves further back […]
by Roland D. Hallee Over last weekend, I prepared my garden bed for planting, at camp. After tilling the soil, adding some manure, and carefully working everything into the soil, I moved a few containers from one location to another, and there it was. A slug! I can remember, about four years ago, when slugs […]
by Roland D. Hallee Did you know there are no native earthworms in Maine? Here in the Northeast where glaciers scrubbed our bedrock bare a few years back we have no native earthworms. Non-native earthworms from Europe (such as nightcrawlers) have become well established here through early colonial trading. Though they are beneficial to our […]
by Roland D. Hallee As a young lad growing up in the early 1950s, I can still remember my parents having an ice box* in the kitchen of our home in Waterville. That predated us getting a “new fangled” electric refrigerator later in that decade. In the box, ice was placed in the top compartment, […]
by Roland D. Hallee When I arrived at work on Monday, on my way into the office, I noticed a woolly bear caterpillar walking along the ground. Strange. Woolly bears are most visible during September and October. Where did this one come from in May? It was a loner and obviously keepling it’s social distance […]
by Roland D. Hallee Over the past 50 years or so of my adult life, I have been involved in many activities, including coaching sports at the youth and high school levels, and have done my share of local political participation. So, in exposing myself to critics, I have been called some unflattering names. Some […]
by Roland D. Hallee There is nothing like beating a subject to death. But, in this case, it’s worth every word. You have to be living in a cave not to know that deer ticks are at an all time high. They are everywhere. Friends and family have told me stories about their encounters with […]
by Roland D. Hallee One of the more common sights around a barnyard is the good ol’ rooster. But, why is he there? My granddaughter and her husband live in Belgrade on about seven acres of land that they have kind of turned into a mini farm. They have pigs, goats, and chickens. A little […]
by Roland D. Hallee I think this week we will make a diversion from the usual. To paraphrase an old adage, “Even though our ancestors came across on different ships, we are all in the same boat, now.” I don’t mean to beat a dead horse, but I will present my take on observations I […]