After all these years, I realized there weren’t any donations made as she requested. My brother-in-law Fred in England gave me the idea to grow my hair and beard, get pledges from folks, set a date to get the haircut and beard shave and then take the money raised and donate it to her cause.

There was a lot of use of our trails during this past weekend/week. Our groomers were out over the weekend and spent multiple times grooming the trails. They are in good shape even with the little show that is under the trails

I am digging through storage boxes of books, papers, and music CDs, stored in the basement here at Camp Marlene; stuff that dates back -- some of it -- to the 1970s when I was living in Davenport, Iowa.

Squaretail. It’s been awhile since that word has been used around anglers, but I like it, and miss hearing people use it. It’s one of those words that triggers the synapses and gets gray-haired anglers thinking back to canvas-covered Old Town boats and bamboo rods.

The Hibbard Skilled Nursing Center in Dover-Foxcroft, in cooperation with the PVAEC, is proud to recognize the new CNA class.

Piscataquis County Democrats gathered to prepare for the upcoming March 8 caucuses on Jan. 18 at party headquarters on North Street. April Thibodeau from the Maine Democratic Party provided training to conveners from virtually every town in the county.

Rep. Paul Stearns, R-Guilford is pictured with Dorothy Flint of Guilford. Flynt’s brother Guilford native Maurice Rollins (pictured) now of of Bellingham, Washington served as gunners mate in World War II, the Korean war and in Vietnam.

Foxcroft Academy and Piscataquis Community High School had final tuneups before next weekend’s conference championship competition during the final Eastern Maine Indoor Track League/Penobscot Valley Conference meet Feb. 1 at the University of Maine.

The Dexter Regional High School senior ended a season of futility against talented Mattanawcook Academy freshman Isaac Hainer in the 145-pound final of the Penobscot Valley Conference championships at Parady Gymnasium, helping the Tigers capture their first league crown since 2010.

Most of us who hunt have heard a version of this quip many times before, generally offered up in a light-hearted way by a friend who doesn’t hunt: “You going out to shoot Bambi?”