August 4, 2010 RSS feed / Irregular Regulars

Recipes from the Ridge

Add a Sauce!

I like sauces on many dishes, especially foods off the grill. You don’t need to smother the flavors, but rather add to the meal. Brush on at the end of the cooking cycle or serve on the side —it’s your choice! More...

IRREDIOMS ~ A look at common idioms

Phrases, sayings & expressions, what they mean & where they came from

No Spring Chicken Not young anymore. This saying has been around since the early 1800s, and it almost always applied to women, although there is no reason it couldn’t refer to men, too. A spring chicken is a really young chick, like a baby. More...

REAR VIEW

“Journalism is organized gossip,” an Edward Eggleston quote, graced Page one of the Dec. 22, 1980, Vol. 14, No. 1 issue of the Sugarloaf and Rangeley Lakes Irregular. More...

Thought for the Week

Never spend your money before you have it. —Thomas Jefferson More...

OUT & ABOUT WITH LAURA

It was back in the winter of 1972 that I first met Chip Carey. Chip was the mountain photographer and vice president of marketing at Sugarloaf/USA and I worked for the daily newspaper. More...

A gingerbread story

Away With Words

There’s a tiny general store on a tiny island off the coast of Maine. I suppose there are lots of tiny stores on Maine’s tiny islands, but I happen to find this particular one. More...

FLY DOPE

Bridging the Gap senior meal program in Kingfield had a great cookout on Saturday at the Kingfield Elderly Housing Complex. People gathered for hot dogs and hamburgers with all kinds of salads, snacks and strawberry shortcake. More...

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