By all rights, I never should have turned out to be a gardener. I tell parents that if they want their children to be gardeners when they grow up, that they should never make them pull weeds. My parents made me pull weeds. We had a vegetable garden and we all worked in it. Gardening […]

Pew Research’s report that 40-percent of American households are supported either solely or primarily by a working mother reflects changing views of gender roles in our society. But it also partly explains dramatic shifts in the military-family culture — and in particular, how it relates to fathers — that have taken place in just one […]

BINGHAM (AP) — A Maine couple who are celebrating their 78th wedding anniversary say they don’t know where the time has gone. Charlie and Norma Pooler of Bingham celebrated their anniversary on Saturday. When they married in 1935, Norma made her own wedding dress and Charlie wore the blue suit he wore to his high […]

TOPSHAM — The Planning Board will hold a public hearing tonight for both site plan and site location of development applications submitted by FMC, LLC for a planned commercial development on property at 120 Old Lisbon Road. According to the town’s online assessing database, the approximately 20.8-acre parcel is owned by FMC, LLC and formally […]

WOOLWICH — The Sagadahoc County Sheriff’s Department is looking for help from the public to locate an antique oil painting stolen from a Woolwich residence in April or May. The painting, which depicts Thatcher’s Island off the coast of Massachusetts, is of a clipper ship and dates to approximately 1870, states a press release issued […]

FREEPORT It officially is the end of an era. Municipal officials are poised to acknowledge Tuesday that Freeport’s long-standing motto, the “Birthplace of Maine,” is nothing more than colorful local fiction. The claim has been suspect for more than a decade. Even the Daughters of the American Revolution — the group that embroidered Freeport with […]