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La lettre V pi Y

Bon, b’en avec cette article on a fini de publier l’alphabet de mes livres de patois, dictons pi metaphores. L’mois qui vien j’veut commencer a publier des poêmes, des observations, toute sortes de chôses, I guess.

Honoring our veterans through resources and recognition

Recently, I attended a White House signing ceremony for three bills I championed to help ensure that America’s veterans receive the benefits, resources, and recognition they earned through their service to our country.

Valley Girls comic – Week of July 13, 2022

Thanks, but no thanks.

What’s that worth?

As I write this column inflation is at an all-time high, prices soaring skyward, product shortages common, people flinch as they fill their cars and we’re all making nips and tucks to our budgets.

Valley Girls comic – Week of July 6, 2022

Go away, pollen.

Celebrating The County’s agricultural heritage

Summer is well underway, as is potato season in Aroostook County. Farming is a critical part of Maine’s character and economy.

La lettre U

On est rendu a l’avant derniére lettre de mes livres de patois, dictons, pi metaphores.

A bit of exploration

I am fascinated with old structures such as houses, barns, and potato houses that stand weathered and perhaps beaten by time and vacancy.

Foiled again

Do you sometimes feel like a knight on a hopeless quest in search of ancestors? I always try to be optimistic but there can be barriers almost impossible to scale. Let’s take a look at some of the most difficult challenges you may face.

La lettre T

Le mois d’juin enfin. Ca s’peut tu? J’me r’semble que ça pris une éternité pour voir le mois d’juin. On a eu quelques jours de chaleur l’mois d’mai, so, faut trop chialler, j’crée b’en.

Valley Girls comic – Week of May 18, 2022

This kid is so weird.

Valley Girls comic – Week of May 18, 2022

Spring in Maine.

1950 census search

The 1950 census was released April 1 on the website of the National Archives (NARA) at www.archives.gov/reserach/census. Fee-based sites such as Ancestry.com also host the census.

Les lettres Q, R, S

Q - Tonthétutatoux? A - Ton thé tu ta toux? (Your tea kill your cough?)

Time spent with Mom

My mother and I used to go fishing.

Preserving Maine veterans’ access to long-term care

Earlier this year, Maine Veterans’ Homes, which provides compassionate, quality long-term care to the brave men and women who served our country, announced that it planned to close its facilities in Caribou and Machias, two of the six homes it operates.

On the move

Our ancestors had the itch to move. It’s a human urge to wonder what is beyond the next hill or valley or to seek a better life.

Coming together to save Caribou’s Maine Veterans Home

When the Legislature established the Maine Veterans’ Homes back in 1977, the state made a commitment to the men and women serving in our nation’s armed forces -- a commitment to repay their service by making sure they would be cared for in their later years.

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