FIREWORKS DALLAS PLANTATION — A fun New Year’s Eve celebration with a firework show viewable from the base lodge of Saddleback Mountain, 976 Saddleback Rd., beginning at 7:30 p.m. Bring in 2025 with a bang!!! FOOD BANK RANGELEY — Rangeley Food Bank welcomes all to stop by every Tuesday 10 a.m.-12 noon at the Church […]
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Wandering: Rangeley
I was first introduced to the Rangeley region nearly 30 years ago when a group of friends invited me to spend a week at their snowmobile camp in Byron. I’d never been to Maine or to a ‘camp’ and I’d never even sat on a snowmobile. But I was young and always up for an […]
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Night Sky Tours with Northern Planetarium
RANGELEY — John Meader, owner of The Northern Stars Planetarium, will lead several night sky snowshoe tours this winter at Rangeley Lakes Trails Center, 524 Saddleback Mountain Rd. Learn about constellations, galaxies, and much more! The Night Sky Tours are sponsored by Dark Skies Rangeley, a community-led effort to conserve the dark skies over the […]
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Two-thirds up the line
My biggest guiding principle in life did not come from school, church, or the sanctuary of my Adirondack chair. It came from an appliance store. And not a Home Depot or Lowe’s—where limitless possibilities of appliances stretch on beyond the do-it-yourself aisles in their own galaxy of stainless steel—but from a small-town showroom. It all […]
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High Peaks Alliance hosts regional meeting
STRONG — The High Peaks Alliance convened a Motorized Meet Up on Thursday, Dec. 5 bringing together snowmobile and ATV clubs from across the High Peaks region. Attendees included state senators Russell Black and Joe Martin, James Turner, Matt Foster, and Brian Milligan from the State of Maine’s ORV program. Doug Dickenson from the Maine […]
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Christmas services, events & meals
The Church of the Good Shepard RANGELEY — The Church of the Good Shepherd, an Episcopal faith community located at 2614 Main St., will celebrate The Nativity of our Lord Jesus Christ beginning on the First Sunday of Advent, December 1st, and culminating on Christmas Day, December 25th. Advent Sunday, Dec. 22: Our 8:30 a.m. […]
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Snapshots in Time
The following article appeared in the January 13,1916, issue of THE MAINE WOODS newspaper published in Phillip, Maine. At the time, the paper was the primary newspaper for North Franklin County. The author provides a quaint peek into what a long winter meant for rural folks in Maine. Today we often speak of how winter […]
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Rangeley Lakes Trails Center: Home of the Gnomes
RANGELEY — Rangeley Lakes Trails Center offers a unique backwoods trail experience for cross country skiers, snowshoers and winter bike enthusiasts. With commanding views from clearings to deep wood trails, the RLTC offers the ultimate Maine woods winter experience for those that explore winter wonderlands on foot. The mapped system offers more than 50 kilometers […]
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High Peaks Alliance awarded $7,500 for Recreation Ranger Corps
REGION — High Peaks Alliance is excited to announce that it has been awarded a $7,500 grant from the Sugarloaf Region Charitable Trust to establish a Recreational Ranger Corps for the Fly Rod Crosby Trail and greater area. This funding will significantly enhance the organization’s efforts to maintain and improve the trail, which celebrates the […]
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Hotel Rumford off to a good start
Returning champ Hotel Rumford is off to a great start to the 2024/25 season as is Smart Care, both with convincing wins. Hotel Rumford defeated Jay (1-2), 71-45, while Smart Care manhandled Clean Cut Painting (1-2), 75-46. Both teams seem destined to be the top choices for winning the league championship, although several other teams […]