Columns
A vintage year, 1924
By Barbara Dyer - May 19As I was carefully researching the fragile pages of the Camden Herald of 1924, looking for an obituary that I did not find, I became mesmerized in ...
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A pig called Richard Milhous
By David Grima - May 17I am not a gardener, and know almost nothing about how to manage a garden. This is why I am all the more serious about good things that happen ...
The do's and don'ts for first-time gardeners
By Tom Seymour - May 17You are going to grow vegetables this year, your first-ever garden. Congratulations. Nothing beats home-grown vegetables. A garden, even a small ...
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Baking with Betty
By Betty Heald - May 17This week's column is dedicated to the folks who work at the Hilltop Restaurant on Route 202 in Knox. They not only have a lovely view but a ...
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Letters to the editor — The Courier-Gazette
May 16Think, act collectively I'd like to respond to the question asked in last week's Heard on the Street column: "How can our public schools be ...
What is clinical research at Pen Bay Medical Center?
By Caroline Knight - May 16What is clinical research? Clinical research, also referred to as clinical trials or research studies, involves researchers who directly observe ...
The 411 on stroke 911
By Eileen Hawkins - May 16Stroke is the number four cause of death in this country and the leading cause of adult disability. Stroke claims more than 137,000 lives each ...
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Support March of Dimes walk May 19
By The Courier-Gazette ... - May 16"Nearly a half million babies in the United States — that's 1 out of every 9 — are born premature each year." — Centers for Disease Control For ...
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Don't make me shush you
By by Kris Ferrazza - May 16Basically, I shush people for a living. This is ironic, as I tend to be one of the chattier people on the planet. So last year when I announced I ...
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Letters, Camden Herald
May 16Thanks Hartstone Inn The Rockport Garden Club would like to express their thanks to Mary Jo Brink and her husband Chef Michael Salmon for hosting ...
- Essays of a Camden Native
Essay by a Camden native’s daughter
By Vicki Fletcher - May 16Dad always said he wanted to write his own “swan song,” but, sadly, the recent fatigue and discomfort of pancreatic cancer has kept him from doing ...
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Baking with Betty
By Betty Heald - May 10This week's column is dedicated to all the veterinarians in the state of Maine who help keep our special pets hale and healthy. Goulash 2 ...
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Sliding ever close to morning
By David Grima - May 10Bored almost to tears by the ordinary stuff of life, Fabulous Bob and I recently conducted an experiment with his indoor-outdoor thermometer. He ...
In memory of David Tomm (1940-2013)
A Walk by Rockland Harbor
By George Chappell - May 10While walking the outline of Harbor Park, I turn and see barges and lobster smacks before gathering in all of the view. The horizon holds me, ...
Container crazy
By Lynette L. Walther - May 10Indeed it is one of the hottest garden trends around, and growing things in containers can solve all sorts of gardening dilemmas. But I owe it to ...
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Letters to the editor — The Courier-Gazette
May 09Commendation I commend John Gibbons for his letter to the editor in The Courier-Gazette dated April 25, 2013, titled "Only in Union." Mr. Gibbons ...
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Report cards vs. vision
By The Courier-Gazette ... - May 09Our guess is that some local educators and school administrators have had better weeks. Right in the middle of trying to get their budgets passed ...
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Evolution of Spokes and Jokes
By Chris Quimby - May 09It is one thing to say you believe in something. It is entirely different to allow that stated belief to have its work in you, for good or for ...
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Letters, Camden Herald
May 09Return control to citizens On June 11, the voters of Lincolnville will be presented with a secret ballot choice to amend our town charter by ...
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Join the Common Sense Party
By Reade Brower - May 08"Useless laws weaken the necessary laws " — Charles de Montesquieu, philosopher and writer (1689–1755) Let’s start a movement. It needs to be ...
Blogs
Spring Fever--Fact or Myth?
By Sandra Sylvester - May 20Has anyone accused you of having spring fever or laughed at you when you said you were suffering from that ailment? Well, there may be reasons for ...
"Viivi & Wagner's" American cousins?
By Art Jura - May 19I noticed that David Grima just wrote about a "piggy-acquaintance" of his, that is named Richard Milhous! That reminded me that I had not published...
May 16-31 Astrology what the planets tell us: Sun enters Gemini May 20 & lunar eclipse to take place May 25
By ananur forma - May 19May 16-21 Jupiter is in an awkward aspect with Saturn causing havoc with the economy again. May 18-20 Mercury is nicely aspecting Uranus encouragin...
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Comments on the last Board of Selectman meeting in South Thomaston.
By Sonja Sleeper - May 13I think I was insulted by Dorothy Meriwether at the last town meeting. The insult came at the end of a long speech on how she believes a select ...
Motherhood
By Kit Hayden - May 12I went, rather reluctantly, to the opening of Lincoln County Community Theater’s presentation of Motherhood Out Loud conceived by Susan Rose and ...
Discussions
Learn to sail with the Lincolnville Boat Club this summer
By Dorothee Newcombe - May 18We are a small club focused on the education of sailing to people young and old. Our primary venue is the calm, warm waters of Norton Pond which ...
Comments
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Re: Midcoast lens: 'EAT' up again
By Sonja Sleeper - May 20Excuse me wasn't once enough for that eyesore? There is good art and bad art and that is bad art. It is not even unique, like the cement lobsters ...
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Re: Community briefs
By Kim Lincoln - May 20It's at Rockport Masonic Center. It has been fixed. Thanks!
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Re: Community briefs
By Camden Public Library ... - May 20Where will the benefit supper be held?
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Re: Talking raspberries at Merryspring
By Amanda Parten - May 20Without even reading the article I most certainly want to see talking raspberries!!!! Are they angry about something?
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Re: Historic Midcoast
By William Pease - May 20Indeed it is, thank you, Ms. Messner. I know that it would be difficult, but can you approximate the date of this photo of Appleton--perhaps from ...
Member Stories
Book Review, Maine Memories by Dorothy B. Gross
By MILT GROSS - May 19Maine Memories by Dorothy B. Gross brings back some of my own memories, nice ones. This book of poetry was written by my ex-wife, and it ...
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Down the Road a Piece
By MILT GROSS - May 19Cows don’t follow a straight line Too many times have I walked through the woods, trying to go straight. But straight turned out to be ...
What is EXERCISE... really??
By David R. Woodbury - May 19As I research books, magazines, newspapers, the internet and any other media form(s) I can get my hands on, I am bombarded with the same informatio...


























