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4 days ago | 
townline.org | Mary J. Grow |Roland D. Hallee |Jude Hsiang |Peter Cates
Issue for June 5, 2025Scouting America teaches young boys and girls many great values. One of the more important lessons in Scouting is Duty to God and country.
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1 week ago | 
townline.org | Mary J. Grow |Roland D. Hallee |Jayne Winters |Peter Cates
Issue for May 29, 2025Launching a trilogy of mystery novels at the age of 91 would be too daring for many authors.
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1 week ago | 
townline.org | Roland D. Hallee
by Roland D. HalleeThis week, this tidbit came in my email inbox. According to Smith’s Pest Management, be ready for a summer invasion of pests in Maine, following the state’s mild winter. Maine’s mild winter may have been a welcome break from the cold, but according to one pest expert, it came with a hidden cost: a likely explosion in warm-weather pests this summer.
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3 weeks ago | 
townline.org | Roland D. Hallee
by Roland D. HalleeWhile driving through the countryside, you may have noticed some small bodies of water that are there in the spring, but disappear as summer proceeds. These vernal pools are essential to our ecosystem. Vernal pools provide important breeding habitat for select amphibians and insects, spiders, and crustaceans. Vernal pools are typically small, temporary wetlands – often less than one acre.
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1 month ago | 
townline.org | Roland D. Hallee
by Roland D. Hallee“It’s that time of year, again.” Probably one of the most over used phrases in the English language, and one that I loathe to hear. Why? Because when you come right down to it, everyday is that time of year for something. Anyway, here we go. It’s that time of the year again when snapping turtles appear everywhere to lay their eggs. Snapping turtles, Chelydra s.
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1 month ago | 
townline.org | Roland D. Hallee
by Roland D. HalleeOver the last several months I have been receiving emails, doing research and gathering information on the possibility of mountain lions in Maine.
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1 month ago | 
townline.org | Jude Hsiang |Rix Quinn |Mary J. Grow |Roland D. Hallee
Issue for April 24, 2025On Friday, April 4, 2025, Erskine Academy students and staff attended a Renaissance Assembly to honor their peers with Renaissance Awards…VASSALBORO – Vassalboro select board members have not been asked to sell the town transfer station, merely to consider sharing a small part of it…from Michael Cox (Somerville Resident) – The letter portraying Somerville as a ship cast into chaos after a “mutiny” overlooks some critical truths. There was no mutiny.
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1 month ago | 
townline.org | Roland D. Hallee
by Roland D. HalleeIn 2024, University of Maine Cooperative Extension Tick Lab processed 4,776 tick submissions including samples from 398 towns, representing all of Maine’s 16 counties. The majority (3,650) were identified as deer ticks, also known as blacklegged ticks, while American dog ticks accounted for 1,045 samples.
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1 month ago | 
townline.org | Roland D. Hallee
by Roland D. HalleeRecently, LiveSportsonTV.com sent along this statistic. It’s truly disturbing that Americans have gone to couch surfing as their national pastime. I used to participate in many sports in my younger years – softball, golf, tennis, table tennis, hockey, volleyball – to name a few. One of the more interesting games was walleyball, where you play volleyball in a handball court using the walls – pretty intense. Today, I only play golf, for various reasons.
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2 months ago | 
townline.org | Roland D. Hallee
by Roland D. HalleeA couple of weeks ago a friend asked me about the songbird, Bobolink, and are there any in Maine. Well, bobolinks and other grassland birds are true agricultural allies to central Maine farmers – they eat large quantities of insects that damage crops. The Bobolink is one of the world’s most impressive songbird migrants, traveling some 12,500 miles to and from southern South America every year.
