The bull moose was about 1,000 feet from shore when it broke through the ice.
March 2010
Lake-to-bay trail to see big advance
The creation of a footpath under a Presumpscot River span will add to a 28-mile walkway, an organizer says.
Letters to the editor: March 22, 2010
Abortion no solution to problems Nancy A. Foss of the Abortion Access Project called people like me “radical right-to-lifers” (Letters, March 10) because we disagree with the abundance of abortions. Does she consider herself a “radical right-to-deather?” Her maudlin adoration of abortion doctors is disturbing. Ms. Foss must be in her own version of […]
Warm March frustrates syrup-makers
Sap drips slowly from a tree into a bucket Wednesday at Cole Farm Dairy and Andy’s Agway in Dayton. The sap will be converted into maple syrup in time for Maine Maple Sunday weekend, which Cole will celebrate on March 27. (JEFF LAGASSE/Journal Tribune)
Frighteningly dangerous child’s play
“I hurt myself today to see if I still feel. I focus on the pain, the only thing that’s real. The needle tears a hole, the old familiar sting. Try to kill it all away but I remember everything. What have I become my sweetest friend? Everyone I know goes away in the end. And […]
Warm March frustrates syrup-makers
Clark Cole measures the density of maple syrup using a hyrdrometer Wednesday at Cole Farm Dairy and Andy’s Agway in Dayton. Cole is preparing the syrup for the weekend of Maine Maple Sunday weekend, which Cole will celebrate on Saturday, March 27, but is worried that unseasonably warm temperatures may limit how much syrup is […]
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Thumbs up to Harry Blumenthal, Charles Rotmil and Julia Skalina for sharing their stories about the Holocaust during World War II. It must be unbearably painful for those who survived the war to think back on what they experienced, what they saw, what they smelled during those dark times. But thanks to their courage to […]
Maine closing in on playoffs
Maurice Ager of the Maine Red Claws drives past Springfield’s Christian Ayer, Sunday, in the Claws’ 118-107 win over the Armor, at the Portland Expo. (DAN HICKLING/Journal Tribune)
After much preparation, home dialysis goes well
It was a giant step from my three days a week dialysis treatment at the York County Dialysis Center in Biddeford for the past two years and that of actually performing peritoneal dialysis in the bedroom of my Kennebunk apartment. But that step was taken a week ago under the watchful eye of Connie, my […]