Mark LaFlamme: Au revoir, bat boy!

Quebecois cuisine So, for no reason that I have been able to deduce, a reminder to meet for dinner at some restaurant in Quebec appeared in my Google calendar, which I never use. Because of this, reminders also popped up on my phone and on my Linux machine at home. Somebody really wanted me to […]

In a word: If you love some pun, set them free

Always remember that you can tune a piano, but you can’t tuna fish.

Mystery Photo for Oct. 1, 2023

Correctly guess where this photo was taken and you could win a $25 Hannaford Supermarket gift card.

Mark LaFlamme: We’re gonna need more kitty litter

Talk of the town: Arachnid encounters and the naked truth.

Gratuities: Have we reached a tipping point?

Mainers say tipping has gotten out of hand. Many blame COVID for causing big change in the business of small change.

Face Time: Debbie Tibbetts of Lewiston — Cleaning out the closet for a 10th and maybe final year

What started as a small clothing swap among a group of women turned into an annual fundraiser that has helped a host of people and organizations in the area.

Still love books after all these years?

Acorn flour pancake recipe

In a word: Wish you could ‘unsee’ that ‘snite’?

A look at dictionary.com's efforts for more gender-neutral definitions and some new words for 2023.

Face Time: Kim Gautreau-Peare of Andover – cemetery work and ancestry are her passion

When she was given her aunt's six hand-typed pages of ancestry research after her death in 1987, Gautreau-Peare found that her own research on her family ancestry quickly turned from a hobby to 'an addiction.'