Glenn’s Grocery a Neighborhood Market
Back before we became such a car crazy gas guzzling bargain hunting consumerist society always runnin’ the roads, as they say, folks depended upon local neighborhood markets that they could walk to for most of their needs. A recent conversation with my 94 year old uncle, Sewell Shaw, revealed...
A Family Business Serving Bath since 1934
There are so many great stories and tidbits of history to learn here in the beautiful river valley. Everyone I meet and talk to in the course of putting this paper together has a unique and fascinating tale to tell and it is so much fun to learn the...
Neti Pots for Allergy Relief & Sinus Irrigation
You may have seen these funny looking little teapot gadgets at your local pharmacy. Neti pots are used to flush out your sinus system with a warm saline solution. Have you ever felt that annoying tickle in your sinuses that heralds an impending allergy attack or maybe the...
High School Outdoor Pursuits Course
The Outdoor Pursuits course is a hands-on course offered by the Southern Victoria High School in Perth-Andover with a classroom component. It is designed to introduce or reconnect students with things and activities that happen outside of a computer screen, television or a handheld device. The main units...
Shimmer & Shine…It’s All About the Feet!
If our eyes are the windows to our soul, our feet are the mirrors of our health. We tend to take our feet for granted, until they act up on us. And those poor pups at the end of our legs sure work hard over the course of our...
Local Author Publishes New Novel
Martin Beaulieu of Perth-Andover has just published the third novel in his historical science-fiction themed trilogy of books. I met with Martin the other day to find out more about his work. As it turns out, I’d heard of him originally some 30 years ago when my mom...
Table Talk
from the editor During a visit to the Perth Library last week I checked out Joe McGinniss’ recently published book about Sarah Palin titled “The Rogue.” I’m an ex-pat American who has watched with a kind of fascinated horror at the fascist police state of a train wreck the...
Earthbag Construction
A few issues back in the gazette we ran a story about Earthship Construction. Those wonderful homes are made by stacking earth-filled recycled tires to create the walls of the structures. I just ran across another fascinating and beautiful building construction method called Earthbag Construction, which uses nothing more...
Freeze Ahead Zucchini “Apple” Pie & Vegetarian Mincemeat
Autumn has now officially arrived….time to harvest the crops and put food by. During a recent trip to the store I began chatting with the lady next to me in the checkout line. She had a pile of supplies which clearly indicated that a preserving project was in the...
Mental Meadow
Mental Meadow There were thorns along the pathway And blow-downs I must pass As lightning lit the night sky A torrential rain morass, There were pitfalls ‘long the portage Past the rapids and the falls And all along the valley Where the forest formed the walls, There seemed to...