WELLS — Nine pairs of piping plovers have been sighted in Old Orchard Beach, and the town is asking beachgoers to give nesting birds their space. Eight pairs have been seen in the Town of Wells on four different beaches, four pairs on Ogunquit beach and there are more elsewhere in York County. Piping plovers […]

During Mother’s Day weekend, Spouse and I brought Second Born home from college for her summer break. Dinner was wolfed down at a rest stop somewhere between Pennsylvania and Maine. That’s all right – I’ll have a kid home for the summer, and after that, I can start calculating how to get back to Atlanta […]

Well-child visits. On the surface, one may surmise that a visit in which anxious parents watch their young get poked, prodded, and examined for anything worrisome might be abhorrent. Parents sweatily discuss concerns with pediatricians as calm, swift-acting nurses take little finger pokes and administer vaccines, then it’s a wrap. In the form of a […]