Spring is in the air and, at last, the sun is peeking out. Finally, you can throw open your windows and exchange a breath of it for the staleness that’s been hanging in your house, along with the ghosts of that corned beef and cabbage you cooked a couple of weeks ago. The birds are […]
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Rangeley could face a $95,000 police budget overdraft
The projected overage is due, in part, to the current Collective Bargaining Agreement, with an increase in wages and benefits, being ratified after the FY 25 budget was adopted in June 2025.
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Dishwasher Power Control Drama
“Hi, my name is Joy, and I have dishwasher control issues.” That is, I imagine, how I’d come clean to a support group if the opportunity ever arose. Haven’t found a local chapter for this sort of thing yet. But, if and when I do, it’ll probably be in Farmington or further down the mountain, […]
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Conservation, Restoration & Stewardship with Rangeley Lakes Heritage Trust
Since its inception in 1991, Rangeley Lakes Heritage Trust has conserved over 100,000 pristine acres in Western Maine. Most recently this summer, thanks to a gift from the Chodosh Family and the Maine Outdoor Heritage Fund, RLHT expanded conserved lands by 100+ acres by purchasing the Mingo Springs Lupine and Birding Trail. Thanks to the […]
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Wandering: Rangeley
I was first introduced to the Rangeley region nearly 30 years ago when a group of friends invited me to spend a week at their snowmobile camp in Byron. I’d never been to Maine or to a ‘camp’ and I’d never even sat on a snowmobile. But I was young and always up for an […]
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Rangeley Roundup
FIREWORKS DALLAS PLANTATION — A fun New Year’s Eve celebration with a firework show viewable from the base lodge of Saddleback Mountain, 976 Saddleback Rd., beginning at 7:30 p.m. Bring in 2025 with a bang!!! FOOD BANK RANGELEY — Rangeley Food Bank welcomes all to stop by every Tuesday 10 a.m.-12 noon at the Church […]
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CDC Announces Intent to Restart Process & Write New Rules for Bringing Dogs into the United States
Temporary measures will remain in place until the new rules are published.
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Night Sky Tours with Northern Planetarium
RANGELEY — John Meader, owner of The Northern Stars Planetarium, will lead several night sky snowshoe tours this winter at Rangeley Lakes Trails Center, 524 Saddleback Mountain Rd. Learn about constellations, galaxies, and much more! The Night Sky Tours are sponsored by Dark Skies Rangeley, a community-led effort to conserve the dark skies over the […]
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Two-thirds up the line
My biggest guiding principle in life did not come from school, church, or the sanctuary of my Adirondack chair. It came from an appliance store. And not a Home Depot or Lowe’s—where limitless possibilities of appliances stretch on beyond the do-it-yourself aisles in their own galaxy of stainless steel—but from a small-town showroom. It all […]