Celebrating National Ice
Cream Month with Local Shops and Restaurants
July 26, 2006
By Renee A. Shina
Some could call this tantalizing
delicacy the greatest edible time machine, a tribute to the past with every
single bite. The classic flavors and the icy sting have the ability to send you
back to childhood, hot summers, and the carefree realm between the end and
beginning of the school year. Its cool, creamy texture and
melt-over-your-fingers gooeyness has brought rise to many messy but happy faces
and child-like grins. Yes, this could be none other than the cream of the crop,
the best of the bunch, and the ultimate summer treat: ice cream. As it just so
happens, July is official national ice cream month. To celebrate, the Penobscot
Times has gone to three locally owned and well known ice cream shops, each with
amazing stories to tell and wonderful frozen delights to sample.
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Seneca O. Love receiving award…
July 26, 2006
A fifth
grader from Indian Island is among the winners of the annual 2006 Native
American Student Art Competition.
Penobscot
Nation member Seneca Love’s original work entitled “Sweet Dreams” won first
place in the grade 3-5 division of the national competition. The competition is
open to American Indian and Alaska Native students in pre-kindergarten through
grade 12. According to a press release from The United States Department of
Education, “this year’s theme, ‘The Power To Dream, The Power To Achieve’,
reflects the promise and importance for Native youths of pursuing an education.
(It) also seeks to emphasize to Native youth the value of an education and to
document education successes in Native communities.”
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Repairs on Greenbush embankment hit snag
July 20, 2006
Repair work on a failed embankment on Route 2 in Greenbush hit a snag last
Thursday.
"We knew going in that odds were the wall would slide," DOT spokesman
Jerry Waldo said. "The load of rocks was too heavy for the soil that's
underneath it."
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Blue Skies Ahead
for FBO Bouffard
July
20, 2006
By Greta Sproul
Old Town
Airport will be saying good-bye to fixed base operator Bob Bouffard this
month. Bouffard, who also owns FBO operations at Bar Harbor Airport, has
decided to “downsize” his responsibilities and will be focusing
exclusively on his coastal business. But the aviation veteran makes it
clear that he sees a positive future for DeWitt Field.
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Buy The Book?
July 13, 2006
By Anise Sinclair **** A very worthwhile purchase
*** Worth buying at a discount
**Borrow it from a friend
*Better off writing your own book
Canoe Hullabaloo Cookbook ****
225 Pages, Hardcover, no pictures
Morris Press Cookbooks, Kearney, Nebraska, 2006
$15.00 Despite its name, the Canoe Hullabaloo Cookbook does
not claim to be the definitive collection of recipes from the Old Town area. If
it did, it would have to include many more recipes for seafood and game dishes.
But as it turns out, the recipes it does offer are much more varied and
intriguing, not to mention heartily representative of the diverse tastes and
cooking styles of the inhabitants of "Canoe City."
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City moving ahead with economic development efforts
July 13, 2006
By Greta Sproul
Economic development was the key topic on the agenda at a meeting of the
Old Town city council Monday night. Council members approved a variety
of expenditures including an amount not to succeed $100,000 that would
be used to hire OEST Associates, a South Portland design firm, for the
creation of a proposed commerce park at Old Town Dewitt Airfield.
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Searching among the stones for Old Town’s past
July
6, 2006
For
some people, choosing to spend a summer afternoon in a cemetery might seem like
a strange one. In a world in which the emphasis is on youth, speed, and all
things “extreme”, the solitary confines of a cemetery aren’t much of a lure for
those who are used to grabbing their entertainment on the run. But for some
people, the most exciting form of entertainment comes at a slower pace and
includes long looks back at the past. For them, a half-hour spent strolling
among rows of faded stones on the grassy slopes of a cemetery can be a
fascinating way to spend a summer afternoon.
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Work on
failed embankment to begin in Greenbush
July 6, 2006
Repairs
on a failed section of embankment on Route 2 in Greenbush are scheduled to start
this week. The failure of the embankment began with a slowly widening crack on
the affected section of the embankment, causing area residents to worry that it
was in danger of falling into the Penobscot River. But DOT official Jerry Waldo
says that if the affected section of road were not repaired, it would actually
just “slide” into the river. He adds that it’s “hard to judge” how long the
repairs will take until work gets underway and it becomes clear what needs to be
done. That process will begin with some stabilization work by contractor Lou
Silver. ...more
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