Ron Harwood gardens in five gallon plastic buckets, many many plastic buckets at his farm in Harmony. Modern farming and gardening use a lot of plastic, not only in buckets, but in bale wrapping, row-crop mulching, greenhouse and high-tunnel covers, feed and fertilizer bags, produce bags and totes, seedling and planting trays and so forth.

The soccer club, Mid-Maine Revolution FC, started in 2015 and had one team with 12 players. Last year Mid-Maine Revolution FC had two teams with 25 players in the club. Into its fourth year Mid-Maine Revolution FC will have three teams with 38 players in the club for the upcoming fall season, a U-12, U-13 and a coed U-14 team.

The Guilford Memorial Library is pleased to be hosting local educator and author Michele Maingot Cabral. She will be doing a presentation about her books series “Waking Up From the American Dream” at 2 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 22

Three prestigious awards were announced at Foxcroft Academy’s 2018 Alumni Banquet, the Dr. Mary Chandler Lowell Award, the Tillson D. Thomas Award and the James S. Holmes Award. This year’s respective recipients are Linda Clark Howard ’63, Gene Philpot and Dr. Albert S. Buck.

UMFK will welcome five new players to its roster this fall, including former Piscataquis of Guilford guard Bryce Gilbert.

It is a brave new world out there, ladies and gentlemen, and I don't think it is a better one. Omarosa Manigault Newman, a former contestant on Donald Trump's old show, "The Apprentice," who later became a campaign aide and staffer in the West Wing, has dominated the news cycle this week for taping conversations in the White House, and now making them public. Several of those conversations portray the White House in an unflattering light, and the Trump administration is having a difficult time fighting back.

President Donald Trump and his administration didn’t invent attacks on the free press, but they have taken them to incredible and dangerous new levels.

Fisheries conservationists made passionate pleas Aug. 14 for state officials to reconsider a plan that would allow the introduction of Arctic charr into a brook trout water that has never been stocked, and which is included on Maine’s list of protected Heritage Fish Waters.

As the training rounds increased from 60 seconds to five minutes on a recent Monday morning, so did the intensity level as members of a mixed martial arts class at Young’s MMA tested each other’s grappling skills.

The third annual Millside Fitness Bun Run 5K was held on the morning of Aug. 11 as part of the Maine Red Hot Dog Festival. Seth Young, 34 of Ellsworth, finished in first place as he covered the 3.1 miles in a time of 19 minutes, 20 seconds.