Stephanie Dellavalle

The Rangeley Highlander

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January 8, 2021

Free Snowshoe Sky Tour with Northern Skies Planetarium

Rangeley, ME – John Meader, owner of The Northern Skies Planetarium will lead a night snowshoe at the Rangeley Lakes Trails Center the evening of Tuesday, January 12 at 6 pm. Since 1987 the Northern Skies Planetarium has traveled across Maine schools and libraries educating children in an inflatable star theater. The pandemic has created […]
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January 8, 2021

Covid Closes Town Office

Due to someone associated with the Rangeley Town Office testing positive for Covid-19 the Town Office is closed to the public from December 31, 2020 until January 11, 2021. As a result of the office closure the January 4, 2021 Board of Selectmen’s meeting was conducted via Zoom. District 17 State Senator Russell Black briefly […]
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January 8, 2021

Nature and Science

The author of the essay on nature appearing below spent many years as a Rangeley resident until moving to NH. His love of the area’s beauty was never lost, and so it was appropriate to write as shown. GCA ____________________________________________________________________________ Return to nature The gracious hovering of hummingbirds, the yellow finches, and all the […]
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January 8, 2021

December Savage Stats

Temperature Maximum: 56° Date: 12/2 Minimum: -4° Date: 12/16 Average True Temp: 21.2258 ° Precipitation Total for month: 5.03″ Greatest: 1.55″ Date: 12/6 Daily Average: 0.162258” Year to Date: 40.729” Snow Total: 17.68” Snow on the Ground First Day: 0” Snow on the Ground Last Day: 2” Season to Date: 20.788″ Wind Peak: 45 Date: […]
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December 25, 2020

‘Splaining The Plant Base

The sign said “The Impossible Burger”, and Burger King, putting the original whopper next to a look-a-like whopper pretending to be a “real” whopper actually made of plants, and even giving it a name…”The impossible burger”~. They have been advertising the heck out of it, grown construction type of men being offered a burger made […]
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December 25, 2020

Assessment

Yes, I know it is only 4 am when I write this little ditty. But you see, the day started out quite a bit earlier. I put in a movie last night because there was not anything good on the Dish. Well, I will admit I have seen this movie at least once or twice […]
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December 25, 2020

Franklin Memorial Hospital administers first doses of COVID-19 vaccine to front-line caregivers

Farmington, Maine – Franklin Memorial Hospital (FMH) administered the first vaccinations for COVID-19 to its front-line caregivers today after receiving a shipment of 500 Moderna doses this morning. At approximately 1:15 p.m. Melody Hill, BSN, RN, became the first care team member at Franklin Memorial Hospital to receive the vaccine. Hill is a nurse who has […]
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December 25, 2020

Saddleback opens slopes after 5-year closure

SANDY RIVER PLANTATION — On a cold, windy Tuesday morning in Sandy River Plantation, Saddleback Mountain was back in business. The embattled ski area fired up its lifts for passholders, a first in more than five years of stalled operations after its former owners abruptly closed the mountain in 2015. Even with COVID-19 still looming, […]
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December 25, 2020

Rangeley Lakes Regional School offers free meals to all area children from birth to 18 years old for the remainder of the school year

All children in the area of RSU 78 which includes students in school, learning remotely, home schooled and preschoolers are encouraged to participate. Every child that participates, directly impacts the amount of money the school will receive in the following year. This would include grant funding for elementary students that receive additional help in reading […]
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December 25, 2020

Downtown TIF Public Hearing

A Public Hearing on Rangeley’s Downtown Tax Increment Financing District (TIF) was held on December 8, 2020 at 5:00pm. These hearings are required by State statutes as a prerequisite to a Selectmen’s vote to adopt a TIF District and TIF Development Program. The 677.97 acre District contains expanded downtown areas of Rangeley and Oquossoc. (See […]

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