SANFORD — To generations of men and boys, Emile Roy was their barber. To others, he was a friend; a man who loved his family, his community, his church and his country. To his five children, he was Dad, or Roy, or sometimes, Emile. To a president, he was a treasured, loyal friend. Roy, 96, […]

WELLS — It may not have been the beach, but on a hot and sunny Saturday, July 30, the Wells coast was bustling as an estimated 2,000 locals and tourists flooded Harbor Park for the 26th annual HarborFEST. The festival, sponsored by the Wells Rotary Club in conjunction with the Wells Chamber of Commerce, featured […]

WELLS — We’ve all heard about the “Pokemon Go” craze. If we’re not playing the augmented reality game, we know someone who is, walking down the street, nose in their phone, searching for that elusive little cyber creature. Well, now there’s a song about it. Rapper Ryan Peters of Wells, better known by his stage […]

When I was about 2 years old, my mother snapped a photo of me in the bathtub making goo-goo faces at a rubber ducky and wearing a plastic bucket as a hat. I say this A) because I wanted to write the creepiest opening sentence ever, and B) because that may have been the last […]

Weekend adventures, big and small, are all so crucial to the grand canon of making family memories. We’ve a tiny window of time in which our kiddos are tiny themselves, and so my husband and I truly attempt to make it count, no matter where we are. Whether we’re investigating tiny pine cones tucked away […]

Last weekend we thought it would be fun to do what the tourists do. You know, stand in long lines, pay too much for food and try to learn how to relax. We started with a baseball game Saturday evening in Portland that by all indications from every weather report known to civilization should have […]