It might be the season of food baskets and charitable giving for many of us, but at Catholic Charities Maine, it’s business as usual. “Attention to need appears to be prevalent at this time of year with all the talk of turkey and sugar plums,” said CC director Dixie Shaw, …

Anyone old enough to remember the assassination of President John F. Kennedy can tell you where they were and what they were doing Nov. 22, 1963, after shots rang out in Dallas and the nation came together around the television set to share the loss of a leader and of …

Carl Robert Langley was 8 when he learned he had a rare malignant brain tumor. Headaches, vomiting and low blood sugar counts had been attributed to sinus infections several times before it was discovered that a pinealoblastoma was creating irreversible pressure on his brain. The life of the Fort Fairfield …

Adm. Gregory G. Johnson never forgot his Aroostook County roots. His career in the U.S. Navy took him all over the world, ultimately as commander of U.S. Naval Forces in Europe, headquartered in London, and commander of Allied Forces in southern Europe, headquartered in Naples, Italy. But the Westmanland native …

It started in a conversation around a dining room table in Woodland last year. It culminated last weekend in a visit to Aroostook County by members of the Maine Legislature’s Joint Standing Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry. The initial conversation focused on Aroostook County agriculture and the future of …

When Terry Kelly graduated from the University of Maine in Orono with a degree in English in 1995, he dreamed of writing fiction and poetry, and still does. But his focus changed after he began working at his father’s mill, Kelly Lumber, when he returned to Ashland, where he grew …

I have wanted to visit Spudland Alpacas ever since I noticed the sign on Route 1 just south of Mars Hill pointing to the farm and store on the Bubar Road. That would have been around 2003 when Richard Porter decided to add animals to his farm in Blaine. A …

Downtown Presque Isle was abuzz Friday night, Dec. 7. Merchants on the Corner offered wine and beer tastings. The Reed Gallery at the University of Maine at Presque Isle hosted a reception in honor of six artisans featured in the month’s exhibition of “fine craft of northern Maine.” Live music …

The pipe organ at the Covenant Presbyterian Church in Nashville, Tenn., has 2,974 pipes. The organ in Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas has 5,535 pipes. The organ in the Cathedrale de Lausanne in Lausanne, Switzerland, has 6,654 pipes. A significant number of the pipes for these and dozens of other …