Roland D. Hallee

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SCORES & OUTDOORS: Surveillance report from UMaine Extension Tick Lab highlights tick-borne disease risk

2 days 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.
SCORES & OUTDOORS: One in three Mainers admits they have lost interest in playing sports

1 week 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.
SCORES & OUTDOORS: The advantages of having Bobolinks around

2 weeks 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.
Issue for April 3, 2025

3 weeks ago | townline.org | Mary J. Grow |Roland D. Hallee |Peter Cates

Issue for April 3, 2025 Due to budget cuts by the Trump Administration, Good Shepherd Food Bank, which distributes food to more than 600 partner-organizations including Winslow Community Cupboard food pantry, and China Food Pantry, is receiving, effective April 1, 2025, a 50 percent reduction in the amount of food it usually receives from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)… VASSALBORO – Vassalboro Budget Committee members began their first 2025 meeting on March 18 by re-electing Peggy...
SCORES & OUTDOORS: Starling population the third most abundant in North America

3 weeks ago | townline.org | Roland D. Hallee

by Roland D. HalleeLast week while looking out my kitchen window, I observed a flock of starlings that had settled in a nearby tree. There were so many, it looked like the tree was completely leafed out with its summer dress. There had to be dozens of them. It reminded me of many years ago when I had some thick brush in my backyard. Dozens of starlings would show up to feed.
SCORES & OUTDOORS: The frightening and harmless earwigs

1 month ago | townline.org | Roland D. Hallee

by Roland D. HalleeRecently, someone showed me a photograph of an insect they alleged bit one of their children. They wanted to know what it was and whether it was harmful. It didn’t take long for me to identify it as an earwig. Earwigs are a relatively small group of insects. Earwigs often upset people when discovered indoors. Their forcep-like tail appendages make them look dangerous, but they are quite harmless.
SCORES & OUTDOORS: Arrival of the Red-Winged Blackbird sure sign of spring

1 month ago | townline.org | Roland D. Hallee

by Roland D. HalleeMore and more in recent days, I have seen and heard of the return of the red-winged blackbird. It is the first of migrating birds to return in the spring. A sure sign that spring is near. The red-winged blackbird is one of the most abundant birds across North America, and one of the most boldly colored, the red-winged blackbird is a familiar sight atop cattails, along soggy roadsides, and on telephone wires.
Issue for March 20, 2025

1 month ago | townline.org | Jonathan Strieff |Mary J. Grow |Roland D. Hallee |Peter Cates

Issue for March 20, 2025Two seventh-grade girls won the annual Pi Day contest at Vassalboro Community School on March 14 – the same two who won as sixth-graders last year, in reverse order.
SCORES & OUTDOORS: Truths and myths about roosters

1 month ago | townline.org | Roland D. Hallee

by Roland D. HalleeYou must, at sometime, heard a rooster crow in the morning. It’s pretty cool. Roosters are often portrayed as crowing at the break of dawn and will almost start crowing before the age of four months. He can often be seen sitting on fence posts or other objects, where he crows to proclaim his territory. However, this idea is more romantic than real, as a rooster can, and will, crow at any time of the day.
Issue for March 6, 2025

1 month ago | townline.org | Dale Potter-Clark |Mary J. Grow |Roland D. Hallee |Dan Beaulieu

Issue for March 6, 2025 During the largely attended funeral of Cathy (White) Fisher on March 18, 2023, some people in leadership positions at the Vassalboro United Methodist Church (VUMC) were struck by how unsatisfactorily their building was set-up for people with physical challenges… by Dale Potter-Clark CHINA – China’s Thurston Park Committee members continued planning future activities, undeterred by bad weather having canceled their February China Ice Days plans… CHINA – Four China...