Roland’s Trivia Question for Thursday, September 21, 2020
Which Boston Red Sox player has won the most batting average titles? Answer: Ted Williams (6). Wade Boggs did it five times.
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Mainers invited to dispose of unusable pesticides
Free disposal, pre-registration by Oct. 9 required Thanks to a project sponsored by the Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry’s (DACF) Board of Pesticides Control (BPC) and the Maine Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), Mainers can dispose of unusable and unwanted pesticides for free. The Obsolete Pesticides Collection Program has kept more than 109 […]
OBITUARIES for Thursday, September 17, 2020
JOHN J. CZAPIEWSKI JR. SIDNEY – John “Chappy” Joseph Czapiewski Jr., 81, passed away on Saturday, August 29, 2020, at Maine Veterans Home, in Augusta. He was born on July 16, 1939, in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, the son of John Sr. and Virginia Czapiewski. He was known for his bravery in the Navy for 30 years. […]
LETTERS: Local prostate cancer support group
To the editor: September is Prostate Cancer Awareness Month and as a nurse who has helped facilitate a Prostate Cancer Support Group, I have seen the importance of men and women gathering to share their prostate cancer stories. I am always amazed at the amount of warm humor, caring relationships and good advice that emerge […]
Causeway work to begin in October
Submitted by China Town Manager Becky Hapgood. China Residents & Causeway Road users, The work on the China Lake Causeway Improvements project will be starting soon. We are very excited to finally be getting this work going and ready for a great season in 2021. The following is a tentative schedule for the work: The […]
Gary Miller retires from presidency of Sheepscot Lake Association
“We can find meaning and reward by serving some higher purpose than ourselves, a shining purpose, the illumination of a thousand points of light.” ― George H.W. Bush This quote by our 41st president recognizes the need for individuals to share their time and energies with worthy causes. Gary Miller recognized a need nine years […]
New roof at Palermo Community Center
Finally, after years of saving and fund-raising, the Palermo Community Center, on Turner Ridge Road, is getting a new roof! Now the Palermo Food Pantry will have a comfortable, dry place to provide nourishing food to area residents, and the Living Communities Foundation, which owns the building, will be able to carry on with its […]
LETTERS: Gideon family tax lien scandal is serious
To the editor: While I’m glad to see some members of the Maine press finally taking the Gideon family tax lien scandal seriously, I can’t help but notice some grave inconsistencies in the answers provided by Sara Gideon to the press. For one, she told WMTW that she “did a couple hours on that project”, […]
FOR YOUR HEALTH: Senior services that make aging in place possible
It’s no secret that growing older comes with certain challenges. For many seniors, old age can make taken-for-granted tasks much more difficult than they used to be. This makes it hard or impossible for seniors to age in place without a helping hand (or two, or three). In surveys, more than 80% of seniors state […]
PAGES IN TIME: Remembering China Village’s two-room schoolhouse
by Richard Dillenbeck I attended grammar school in a two-room schoolhouse in the village of China at the northern end of the lake. It had two rooms, each with four grades, the younger kids on the ground floor and the older children on the second, each room with its own teacher. The rooms were arranged […]