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Valley Girls comic – Week of December 7, 2022

Seeing the world differently.

A difficult goodbye

His soft ivory curls were wrapped around my finger as I examined every part of his body with cloudy eyes, my free hand stroking his shoulders as I told him, for probably the millionth time during his 12 years on earth, that I loved him. I told him he was beautiful — the most beautiful Goldendoodle in the world.

Valley Girls comic – Week of November 30, 2022

Valley Girls comic – Week of November 23, 2022

Watch out for the turkeys.

Giving thanks for angels in my life

I received the ornament I have been waiting for. It is a yellow submarine and Santa himself is sitting right about where the periscope should be. He is the traditional St. Nick, with chubby, cherry cheeks and lustrous white hair. The submarine is decorated with sugar drops; green, orange, yellow and pink.

Colonial ancestry

In my last column I discussed the differences between the Puritans of Massachusetts Bay Colony and the Pilgrims of Plymouth. Millions of Americans descend from these Protestant settlers and quite often have ancestors from both colonies. You probably do if your ancestors were here in New England in the 17th or 18th century.

Valley Girls comic – Week of November 16, 2022

This one, he knows.

Valley Girls comic – Week of November 9, 2022

Those powerful teeth

Honoring Maine heroes for Veterans Day

Veterans Day is one of the most sacred days on our national calendar. Across the land, grateful Americans pay tribute to the brave men and women who have defended our freedom throughout our history.

Pilgrims or Puritans?

Pilgrims. Puritans. Did your ancestors number among them and is there a difference? Even Henry Louis Gates on Finding Your Roots once told a Mayflower descendant they had Puritan ancestors.

Greatness of a nation

To the editor: God bless the U.S.A. Where else can a man who spent his entire childhood and early adulthood at the very bottom of his schoolroom class grow up and win a senatorial election? Where else can this same person hide in his basement for months and win his nation's highest office?

Mon 5 Cents – Week of November 9, 2022

Grandi a Grand Isle Avec l’arrivé de l’automne et l’hiver qui cogne a la porte, mes pensés tourne vers le printemps.

Casting my vote for Appleby

To the editor: Although not born in the Valley, I have spent nearly my entire life and my working career as a family nurse practitioner here. I raised my beautiful family in Fort Kent. Anyone who knows me, knows how deeply I love the people of the Valley.

Paradis will represent the Valley well

To the editor: In the Valley, we were raised to respect our elders. But too often they find themselves struggling to pay for heat, electricity and food, not to mention property taxes. Respect for elders should mean fixing these issues and making life better for them.

Treasures are for today

She looked through the tangle of necklaces carefully, not quite sure if she wanted to wear the colorful plastic pearls or sterling silver chains that clung dutifully to tarnished baubles of all shapes and sizes. She asked herself once again why she had stored these pieces of jewelry in her dresser drawers.

Don’t betray public trust

To the editor, Election season is a mixed blessing for me. It consists of highs and lows. The rhetoric we hear from candidates rarely resembles the reality that serving in elected office means. Technically, most of us realize that the work encompasses daily sacrifices for the constituency.

Valley Girls comic – Week of November 2, 2022

It’s not you, it’s me

Please vote Theriault

To the editor: It's that time again. Soon we will be voting again for a representative to represent us all in the St. John Valley and beyond in Augusta.

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