Caleb Ball's wife Lea has a popular hair salon in downtown Greenville. She’s been my “go to” for years. On my last visit I noticed intriguing bottles of products for hair, skin and lips on her counter. There was “Oats and Aloe” lotion, which smelled heavenly, and hair products like a shampoo named “Smell My Coconuts” and leave-in conditioner “Pull My Hair.” And then Lea mentioned she had used Caleb’s products on me during my visit.

Foxcroft Academy has been chosen to be one of the sites to host the 2018 Maine-Nebraska Wrestling Exchange. The school will be hosting this wrestling event at 5 p.m. on Friday, July 13.

Nearly 70 runners took part in the annual 5K road race to start the 2018 Fourth of July festivities in Sebec Village.

Postmaster Michael S. “Mike” Robichaud handed me the cardboard box too big for my P.O. Box. I said, “These are rounds (K-Cups) from Black Rifle Coffee company. Do you like coffee?”

The Foxcroft Youth Track program took part in a USATF Maine Group D meet on July 6 at Old Town High School with the following team members placing in the top 20 in their respective event

Access to and options around health care impacts our daily lives in ways large and small. For rural Mainers, this is especially true. I am working with Maine Family Planning to host an interactive and family-friendly civic engagement event at 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, July 11 at the Commons at Central Hall in Dover-Foxcroft to address these very questions.

Saturday morning July 14 from 10 to noon Dexter Dover Area Towns in Transition (DDATT) will host a free presentation on woodland edibles at the Abbott Memorial Library.

A record-high number 27 boats took to the water across about two dozen different classes during the annual Sebec Fourth of July canoe race held mid-morning on Sebec Lake as part of the holiday festivities in the village.

We in Maine enjoy being able to see moose and bear, and go camping, fishing, hiking and hunting, especially in remote wilderness areas. A big reason is that Maine’s longstanding “adjacency policy” serves the Unorganized Territory and our state well. Large tracts of north country have been protected from sprawling development, where we can still “get away from it all,” and where animals needing large wilderness areas can survive.

On July 5 the Piscataquis County Sheriff’s Office received a call from a 21-year-old female hiking southbound on the Appalachian Trail (AT) complaining of nausea near the Wilson Valley Lean-to. Four game wardens from the Greenville area responded along with Greenville Fire Department, Monson Fire Department and C.A. Dean Memorial Hospital EMS personnel.