Fortunately, during my retirement years I’ve always been able to fill the hours with volunteer activities and of course, writing for this newspaper. If you are 50 or older, and love learning something new, you may be interested in the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of Southern Maine. This sounds fascinating to me […]

I was sitting in my yard the other day watching a guy build a stone wall in front of our neighbor’s house. It’s probably not something you’d pay to watch, but for what I paid it was a great show. I saw how gracefully this stone-wall craftsman worked as he took a stone from a […]

Gov. Paul LePage hates white people. Not all white people, of course. Mostly white Democrats, Caucasian liberals and honky journalists. He’s OK with melanin-deprived Republicans and pinkish independents, so long as their skin hue is just mild sunburn and doesn’t denote communist sympathies. He’s definitely cool with Miss Maine USA, who, in spite of her […]

State education experts are highlighting promising practices to use as models for other schools.

As the youngest of six children, there was rarely extra money in our house for clothes shopping when I was little. But, I remember the joy of getting to choose a few special things for school at the end of summer each year. I hope you’ll be happy to hear that downtown Biddeford has quite […]

Here and there this week in The Borough of 04074 as we roar into the home stretch of August: A sign that apocalypse is near Cumberland Farms closes its two Scarborough locations Route 1 near the high school; and Payne Road near Sam’s Club; does this mean that the market for selling candy bars, Gatorade […]

Here and there this week in The Borough of 04074 as we roar into the home stretch of August: A sign that apocalypse is near Cumberland Farms closes its two Scarborough locations Route 1 near the high school; and Payne Road near Sam’s Club; does this mean that the market for selling candy bars, Gatorade […]

One must be extra careful not to miss that small incline leading from parking lot to the sidewalk, and if there’s no incline, you have to actually lift your whole foot up. Be careful. A few years back, I misjudged the length of my foot, caught my sneakered toe on the edge of that pesky […]

The other day I had to make phone call to what I assumed was a homegrown Maine business. All I wanted to do was ask what I assumed were a few routine questions. How could I have known that I was about to enter a telephone chamber of horrors? My whole awful experience has left […]