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PublishedApril 18, 2012
SNAPSHOT: Just dandy
Muriel Plummer, 90, inspects a dandelion root Tuesday that she harvested in the garden at her farm in Weeks Mills. Since retiring from Hussey’s two years ago, Plummer is staying busy picking produce and cultivating flowers. She likes to steam the roots of dandelions and serve them with biscuits. “I have enough for myself,” she […]
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PublishedApril 17, 2012
SNAPSHOT: Maiden voyage
Eli Hopkins is accompanied by his parents, Carla Hopkins, left, and Victoria Eleftheriou, while taking a cruise Monday at a pond near their home in Mount Vernon. The couple purchased the boy a kayak for his seventh birthday on Tuesday and decided to make a splash a day early because of temperatures in the 80s.
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PublishedApril 16, 2012
SNAPSHOT: A Scottish blessing
Members of the St. Andrews Society of Maine prepare to march with flags into Christ Church Episcopal in Gardiner during services Sunday. The Scottish heritage group performed a Kirkin’ o’ the Tartan, or blessing of clans, with parishioners of the church, accompanied by drums and bagpipes.
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PublishedApril 12, 2012
SNAPSHOT: Touching the sky
Kera McIntosh, of Farmingdale, photographs ducks Wednesday with her 5-year-old son, Logan, at the boat landing on the Kennebec River in Hallowell. The pair were playing beneath overcast skies that are forecast to persist until Friday, when sun and milder temperatures are predicted.
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PublishedApril 11, 2012
SNAPSHOT: Restoration period
Timber framer Nate Clark saws a mortise Monday in a hemlock girt for the barn at the Major Reuben Couburn House in Pittston. Clark’s firm, Pownalborough Restoration, is reparing the 1849 structure next to the home that dates to 1765 the Department of Conservation has been repairing.
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PublishedApril 10, 2012
SNAPSHOT: Rainy days and Mondays
Maggie, left, and Laurie Barron, 8, are escorted home from school Monday by their father, Bill, during a downpour in South Gardiner. The eight-year-old twins may need the dome later in the week as a mix of sun and rain is forecast.
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PublishedApril 9, 2012
SNAPSHOT: Taking an egg break
Ely Tiba, 4, collects a chocolate egg Sunday beneath a tree in Capitol Park while hunting for treats from the Easter bunny with her sister, Zoe, 18 months. The siblings, of Quebec City, scoured the park during a respite from driving home from a vacation in Portland with their parents.
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PublishedApril 6, 2012
SNAPSHOT: Spawning, migrating and returning soon
Commercial fishermen set a net Wednesday on Cobbossee Stream in Gardiner. Anglers are harvesting spawning white suckers and migrating elvers at the confluence of the Kennebec River, with Alewife expected to return soon.
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PublishedApril 3, 2012
SNAPSHOT: Not forgotten
Robin Chapman holds her granddaughter, 2-year-old Emilee Chapman, on Monday in the field of flags arranged by the Maine Autism Alliance at Capitol Park in Augusta. The display served to remind Mainers of the approximately 2,800 children in the state diagnosed with Autism on World Autism Day. The Albion pair visited the display to show […]
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PublishedApril 2, 2012
SNAPSHOT: Palm Sunday
Lindsey and Connor Bell distribute palm fronds to parishioners of Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Hallowell before services on the moveable feast of Palm Sunday that is celebrated a week before Easter. The nine-year-old Farmingdale twins were assisting the Rev. George Hickey as alter servers during the Mass to remember the return of Jesus to […]
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