LEWISTON — Mitch Thomas, executive director at the Gendron Franco Center, and Bert Dutil, bus trip leader, will lead a group on a maple sugar day trip to Quebec on Saturday, April 14. The “Cabane a Sucre” in Lac-Megantic will be the destination. As an added feature, local Quebec musicians will provide entertainment during the […]
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Old-time maple sugaring, school session at the Washburn-Norlands Living History Center
LIVERMORE — The community can celebrate Maine Maple Sunday at the Washburn-Norlands Living History Center, Maine’s oldest living history farm and museum, from 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday, March 26. A breakfast of fresh hot pancakes and sausage drizzled in Norlands’ own maple syrup will be available in the historic farmer’s cottage and original […]
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Maple Mills starts sugaring in Northern Oxford County
WILSONS MILLS — With roughly 25,000 taps and 150 miles of tubing draining sap from maple trees down Aziscohos Mountain to a sugarhouse, Nick Staley is getting little sleep these days. Staley and his wife, Melanie, of Lancaster, N.H., are in the first year of operating the family business, Maple Mills. It is off Route […]
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Rangeley literacy project goes around the world
RANGELEY — Regional School Unit 78 directors this week were told that Rangeley Lakes Regional School students have sent their journals to friends and strangers around the world, who will add entries and return them. It’s a project that middle school literacy teacher Robin George works on with sixth-graders. She compares the project to sending […]