By Tom Vilsack     The USDA and the Department of Interior announced a new effort – the Western Watershed Enhancement Partnership – to enhance our forests and protect America’s water supply.

Greenville ‘firing squad’ unnecessary To the Editor:    Recently, in Greenville, at the end of the longest parade of the summer on the muggiest hottest day of the year, Sen.

    Determining an exact date for vital events in the past can be complicated by changes in the calendar and in writing styles.

By Patrick Woodcock     This past January, with temperatures plunging into a deep freeze, the Governor’s Energy Office received a phone call on a Friday from an elderly veteran who was facing the chilling prospect of no heat for the weekend.

   DOVER-FOXCROFT — Widdershins located at 843 Bear Hill Road, has been a part of the Maine Highlands Farmers organization for four years.

Have we forgotten the Fourth? To the Editor:    And yet another Dover-Foxcroft Independence Day has slipped uneventfully, and almost unnoticed into the town’s increasingly blank-paged history.

By Shelagh Talbot     GREENVILLE JCT — The Eveleth-Crafts-Sheridan House on the Pritham Avenue campus of the Moosehead Historical Society is now open for docent-guided tours.

By Alex Hammer     Was it less than four years ago that Mainers, by a narrow margin, elected Paul LePage?    Somehow it seems longer.

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Food Cupboard appreciates support To the Editor:    The United Methodist Ecumenical Food Cupboard would like to extend a heartfelt “Thank You” to our area business owners and private community members for your generosity in creating a partnership during the recent food drives in the greater Milo, Brownville and Lagrange areas.

    There was a time, when I knew all of my nieces and nephews, their dates and places of birth, and the correct spelling of their middle names.

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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.