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By Tom Vilsack     Getting a Food, Farm and Jobs Bill passed this year is essential – and it can’t fall victim to politics as usual.

Senior Mattersby Lesley Fernow     It is never too late to find new inspiration and passion for living.

    My husband, Fred and I were out looking for the old Brawn Homestead cellar holes this spring (before blackfly season), trying to find the former home of James and Rosetta Brawn in Gray Valley on the Dover-Guilford line.

Citizens, not corporations, know best To the Editor:    Mike Lange’s recent article on Sangerville citizens working to adopt a community bill of rights was both very informative and well written.

By Rhonda Hanson WeaverFA Class of 1967    In winter, we’d put on layers of wool, pull on uninsulated rubber boots (red for girls, black for boys) and head outdoors to make snow forts, tunnels and hordes of snowballs (the better to ward off unseen enemies) and toboggan or slide down snowy hills, always managing to get crust cuts.

Knights of Columbus supportNational Veterans Family CenterTo the Editor;    The Maine State Council of the Knights of Columbus is pleased to announce that they will help make the dream of SSG Travis Mills come true.

By Rhonda Hanson WeaverFA Class of 1967     Back then, your teachers had the last word, and a call home was something to be worried about.

By Nina Brawn     I have been working on one of those amazing family history books that Ancestry.

GOP not so grand anymore To the Editor:    Who’s side is the Republican Party on? The Boston Marathon or the Boston bombers?    Anxious to get the President at any cost are they getting the attention of the next generation of Boston bombers to warn them how to be careful with their communications?     PRISM, a program to scan foreign phone numbers, not phone calls, for patterns, has been effective, and kept a necessary secret by all of government except the Congress, which has betrayed the American people with their revelation and blatant bugling of its existence, breaching their oath of office in the process.

Senior MattersBy Meg Callaway     Senior companionship is a gift that gives twice.

By Rhonda Hanson WeaverFA Class of 1967     In the 1950s and ‘60s, Dover-Foxcroft, like most small Maine towns, was a special place in which to grow up.

By Josh Salm     SHEBOYGAN, Wis.

D-F Legion is not dead To the Editor:    Dear friends, the American Legion is helping veterans next week.

Hot Air Balloon Festival To the Editor:    I just wanted to give some feedback on the Piscataquis Heritage Balloon Festival.

To the Editor:    We had our second annual Shiretown Shineup on Friday, May 17.

    Editor’s note: As readers may have noticed by the special logo on Page One of this newspaper, The Piscataquis Observer is marking 175 years in business in 2013.

    The FamilySearch website has a completely updated look, but all your old favorites are still there.