“You wimp,” Diane said. “I don’t believe this. The summit is just over that pile of rocks. I’m telling you the view is 360 degrees. It’s fantastic.” “Nope,” I said with conviction. “This is far enough. I ain’t goin.’”

On Oct. 4 Kaitlin Young of Stetson was presented with a legislative sentiment by her local delegation recognizing her achievement of being named the Maine 2018 Teacher of the Year.

Special-interest groups are using the ballot box to push initiatives that are bad for Maine.

The Red County Caucus expresses its strong displeasure with the misguided approach U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine has chosen to the healthcare catastrophe that is the Affordable Care Act (ACA).

Dexter Regional High School recently celebrated Homecoming Week, and at the annual Homecoming dance on Oct. 7 eight students were crowned as the Homecoming Court.

The Center Theatre is holding its Pumpkin Jam Fall Fundraiser at 7 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 20. The event will feature a silent auction, 50/50 raffle, as well as complimentary food and desserts. The entertainment for the night will be a battle of the bands between three local favorites, the Doughty Hill Band, the Josh Guthrie Trio and Happy Folk.

Timothy Branco, a regular customer of the A.E. Robinson Convenience Store in Dover-Foxcroft, won the $15,000 Pump Up the Fun with Irving Oil Second Chance drawing.

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Over 60 participants of varying ages traveled more than a mile from the Kiwanis Park gazebo and back through downtown Dover-Foxcroft during the Partners for Peace’s Walk to End Domestic Abuse on Oct. 4 as part of Domestic Violence Awareness Month.

You'll have to forgive me, because I'm as tired of writing this column as you likely are of reading it. Yet, with a sickening frequency, I inevitably have to write some kind of reaction to an act of mass murder, and try to bring some rational thought to the most emotional of issues.