Romance, as any true romantic knows, is often found in the unlikeliest of places, and the same appears true for romance novelists. At least this is true for one of Maine’s newest published authors, a Franklin County woman perfectly content in the great outdoors,… Read More
From the far corner of the auction house, through a haze of sawdust and smoke, Everett Underhill nods his head to the auctioneer with the confidence and poise of a high-stakes Vegas card shark telling the dealer, “Hit me.” “One thirty-five,” Jay Hanson jabbers. “Do… Read More
TOWNSHIP 10, RANGE 8 – If state bear biologist Craig McLaughlin had any doubt about the health of the black bear population after this year’s long winter and late spring, his fears dissipated last Monday while he was trapping and collaring bears in the North Woods. Read More
PITTSFIELD – Record-high prices being paid by Canadian and Californian farming corporations for milking cows and heifers have proven to be the cash cow for farmers anxious to bail out of dairy farming, a living they call “a losing game.” “In the last 12 months,… Read More
Fifteen minutes before Friday’s showtime, the freshly bathed and manicured Cora seemed to know she shouldn’t be digging in the dirt. But just like a 9,000-pound child in her Sunday best, the 44-year-old Asian elephant just couldn’t help it, according to her longtime trainer, Bill… Read More
MILFORD – Diane Morse rises at 4 a.m. each day and begins tending to the needs of 191 cats that live with her in a dilapidated but clean 10-by-50-foot trailer. “Good morning, guys,” she says softly as she begins a series of chores that will… Read More
PITTSFIELD – Twenty-four hours after Maine’s state veterinarian, Don Hoenig, landed at Logan International Airport in Boston from England, he was still reeling from his five-week experience in dealing with foot-and-mouth disease. Part of the first wave of 40 American veterinarians sent by the U.S. Read More
Kids’ World Lamoine family keeps frantic pace as goat herd’s season for births arrives in full force
Barbara Brooks always gives her kids milk as part of their bedtime snack. All 162 of them. Make that 180, and counting. Because Brooks – or, as her 11-year-old daughter, Sally, sometimes calls her, “Madame du chevre” – runs the largest dairy goat farm in… Read More
ELLSWORTH – A state veterinarian has placed an Ellsworth riding stable under a 45-day quarantine after one of its horses tested positive for rabies. The Crossroads Equestrian Center, a riding, training and boarding facility, along with eight horses, were quarantined Wednesday afternoon. googletag.cmd.push(function () {… Read More
ORRINGTON – Tim Falvey heard the dogs across the street, he saw his two house cats squaring off with an animal in the driveway, and he looked out his window with one thought. “That’s one big cat,” he said of the bobcat he shot on… Read More