After a few days of sunshine and warmer temperatures, it is tempting in our eagerness to dig right into the garden, believing frost and snow are behind us. Although there are outside gardening chores we can begin, be careful to time them around our notoriously long winters. You can start pruning deciduous fruiting and ornamental […]

The Maine Wildlife Park is starting a new program called the Junior Friends of the Maine Wildlife Park. Nate Barnes, the Park’s Americorps volunteer, will supervise this group. The Maine Wildlife Park has a large and active corps of close to 80 active adult volunteers; but with this new program, there is an opportunity for […]

The warming sun is slowly melting the hard packed snow; and as it does there are left many small puddles. If you take a close look at these puddles you will see hundreds of tiny black specks around them and floating on them. These specks, on real close observation, move; some even jump. What you […]

The Windham Drifters Snowmobile Club on Sunday dedicated a bridge the club built last year over the Pleasant River, honoring those who donated to or helped with the project. The bridge has been “in the making” for more than three years. The landowners, the Halls and the Babbs, gave the Windham Drifters permission to put […]