You may think you know everything about everything, but “The Onion Book of Known Knowledge” would beg to differ.
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OUTDOORS: In the face of a winter sky, a lengthening day
The month of January is named after the Roman god Janus, who faces both forward and backward at the same time. Janus is also known as the god of gates, doors, bridges, beginnings and endings, transitions, movement and even time itself. That is especially fitting now that we have survived the often forecasted end of the world and are ready to create new beginnings and transitions and an age of greater cooperation on Earth.
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OUTDOORS: A skier’s/snowboarder’s wish list for 2013
As skiers and snowboarders in Maine, we have it pretty darn good. We have resorts lauded by the national press, with Sugarloaf, Sunday River and Saddleback noted as three of the Northeast’s best. Skiing is easy to get to, with community slopes less than an hour from each of Maine’s urban centers. This fall, as it does every year, the Ski Maine Association sent a press release detailing the dozens of improvements to snowmaking, terrain and facilities.
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State owned snow plow truck takes out utility pole in Falmouth
The accident forces police to close a section of Route 26.
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TRAVELIN’ MAINE(RS): Cafe Miranda now a favorite spot for lunch, too
Have you been looking for an excuse to go to Rockland? We are pretty partial to this town, and love any excuse to go there. When we learned that Café Miranda is now open for lunch, we headed right down!
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BOOKS: ‘Two Graves’ is an exceptional thriller
The names Preston & Child on the cover of a book promise a unique reading experience unlike any other, and “Two Graves” delivers the high thrills one expects from the two masters.
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BOOKS: The action is fast in Kovacs’ ‘Good Junk’
New Orleans private detective Cliff St. James finds himself probing the deadly netherworld of foreign weapons dealers in “Good Junk,” the second crime thriller by Ed Kovacs set in the city in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
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BOOKS: Norridgewock author releases new book
“Fancy and Francis” is a children’s book by Barbara Winslow, who was inspired to write this short story based on a true incident in the life of Francis Fenton, owner of the Sandy River Apple Orchard in Mercer.