Month: March 2017

Maine Markets Sprouting Up

“You walk though and you hear English, French, German, Old German….”  It isn’t just the food that keeps Kim-Anne Perkins coming back to the Presque Isle Farmers’ Market.  It’s the sense of a community gathering place.  “Maine is...

Read More

The Little College That Could

I’ve never particularly liked phrases like that—“the little {something} that could”—because it sometimes seems a backhanded compliment—i.e., “even though you’re small, you can still manage to do good things,” etc.  But this past...

Read More

Quist’s Quest for Greatness

Some say that art is one of the most versatile and beautiful things that the Earth has to offer.  Nobody knows that better than Monica Quist.  Quist, 24, is graduating in May with her Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from UMPI. ...

Read More

A Church Garden for Hot Dogs

If you ask Deacon Al Lajoie of the Family Christian Center about his church’s newest community program, he will say, “It’s just a hot dog.”  Why is the church offering some of its 13 acres to the public...

Read More

Web Archive