BETHEL — ?Earl C. Andrews died of heart failure at his home in Bethel on Saturday, May 5. He was born on the Andrews family farm in North Paris on July 7, 1925, the son of Alfred and Iona (Littlehale) Andrews. He graduated from West Paris High School in 1944. He served in the Navy from […]
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Paul LePage taps into Maple Syrup Sunday preparation
AUGUSTA (AP) — Spring flowers might not be blooming in Maine, but the spring sap is flowing. Republican Gov. Paul LePage tapped a tree outside the governor’s mansion on Tuesday to mark the coming of Maple Syrup Sunday. Mainers celebrate maple syrup on the fourth Sunday of March by visiting sugarhouses all over the state. […]
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Quebec has record maple syrup harvest
Quebec, the world’s largest maple-syrup producer, said this season’s harvest rose 2.7 percent to a record amount large enough to fill 24 Olympic-sized swimming pools. Production this spring rose to 152.2 million pounds from 148.2 million in 2016 after farmers increased the number of syrup-extracting taps on maple trees by 1.4 million, the Federation of […]
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Recalling the early days of 'syruping'
A highly successful Maine Maple Sunday was nearing conclusion Sunday afternoon when I stopped at the West Minot Sugar House, known as the “sweetest place in town.” That’s when I spent the better part of an hour with master sugar-maker Jim Mavor. All day, in fascinating detail, Mavor had been explaining the operation of the […]
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Maple syrup producers hope for a sweet season
The weather hasn’t cooperated, but that didn’t stop maple syrup producers from giving visitors wagon rides, demonstrations and samples during the 34th annual Maine Maple Sunday. Tony Couture of Maple Valley Farm in Jay said he has made 200 gallons of syrup this year with most of it made in early February. Sap hasn’t run […]
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Auburn students learn how to make maple syrup
Chase Knight, 9, and his fourth-grade teacher, Ben Lavigne, check a maple sap bucket at East Auburn Community School in Auburn on Friday. Lavigne and his students tapped trees the past five weeks and boiled the sap Friday. The syrup will be a treat for the students after the Maine Educational Assessment testing that begins on Monday. Lavigne’s father, Mark Lavigne of […]
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Maine Maple Sunday promises to be sweet this year
Bob Parsons of Parsons Maple Products in Gorham checks sap collection March 17. GORHAM — Cold temperatures in March slowed the sap run this year, but not enough to prevent thousands of families across Maine from venturing to farm sugarhouses to lap up maple syrup products and soak up the outdoors. The official 34th annual Maine […]
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Maine Maple Sunday: Cold weather slows sap but sugarhouses to be ready
Bob Parsons of Parsons Maple Products in Gorham checks sap collection. GORHAM — Cold temperatures in March slowed the sap run this year, but not enough to prevent thousands of families across Maine from venturing to farm sugarhouses to lap up maple syrup products and soak up the outdoors. The official 34th annual Maine Maple […]
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Climate change and maple trees
I happened to see the photo (March 3) and caption about how the maple syrup season seems to have come early. Wow, I love maple syrup, but I can’t help but wonder how the abnormal winter we’ve had this year is going to affect the future of the maple syrup industry, and if I will […]
