Archive for ‘Opinion’

  • Consuming or sharing?

    By Sally Chappell “All I want is what I have coming to me. All I want is my fair share.” Immersed in the consumer — errr holiday — season as we are, Charlie Brown’s little sister, Sally, invites us to ponder: What is my fair share? We are sharing the goods of the earth with […]

  • Diminutive visitor

    Early morning sunlight gilds the tops of the tall pine trees on the point, pouring molten gold down over their branches. The lake is still in shadow, but as the sun rises higher above the eastern hill, its golden light reaches the far shore, illuminates the forest, and glances off a distant cottage window like […]

  • Dad’s driving advice

    By Dawn De Busk When I was 17, my dad ran across an advertisement for a Sherman tank for sale in one of his car magazines. He joked that he planned to buy it because it would be the perfect vehicle for me. I would never be able to speed — since the military tank […]

  • Same girl, different couch

    My wife had been in what experts refer to as a PVS (Persistent Vegetative State) for several months. By that, I mean that each night when I came home from work I knew exactly where she would be in the house, in what position she would be in, and what her state of mind would […]

  • Good Neighbors

    There has been a confusion of the seasons lately: a big snowstorm bracketed by very warm days. The day after the storm, with a foot of snow on the ground, I paddled my kayak on the lake. Afterward, I came ashore and put my paddle away, got out the ice chopper, and chopped ice in […]

  • The Computer Crimes Unit

    Computers are wonderful things. They have transformed the way we conduct business, practice medicine, write, and even watch TV and movies. Unfortunately, they also have transformed crime as well.  One of the most infamous criminal uses of computers is the role they play in child sexual abuse and child pornography. Fortunately, we have the dedicated […]

  • Black sesame seeds

    By Alice Darlington I thought I was living in a horror movie! Every time I looked down at the young golden retriever, I saw another small black sesame seed surface on his head, only I knew it wasn’t a seed. It was a deer tick! I’d pluck it off and put it into my tick […]

  • SAD 61 hopes to avoid budget rejection in 2012

    After seeing two proposed school budgets rejected at the polls this past spring, Interim Superintendent of Schools Dr. Kathleen Beecher has decided a different approach is needed. Dr. Beecher wants to create an open exchange of ideas between taxpayers and town officials on how to make the school system more efficient. SAD 61 took a […]

  • Gordon Peaco

    OTISFIELD — Gordon Peaco, 79, of Otisfield died Sunday, Nov. 20 at his home with his loving family by his side. He was born in Otisfield on April 23, 1932, the son of Linley D. and Pearl Haley Peaco. He graduated from Norway High School in 1950 and from Bates College in 1954 with a […]

  • One apple tree

    By Alice Rose Righting a seven-year-old apple tree, even one advertised as a dwarf, is no small task. I speak from experience. On the morning following the October snowstorm, I looked out the kitchen window to the field to see our Macoun apple tree resting on the ground. You could say it was at 8 […]