🌱 How one Kennebec river driver remembers Maine’s last great log drives

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• How one Kennebec river driver remembers Maine’s last great log drives

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• Thursday: Mostly sunny and very warm, temps: high: 84, low: 59.
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📰 News we're reading

• River driver remembers Maine last log drive 50 years later (pressherald.com) — A longtime Kennebec River driver shares vivid memories from Maine’s final log drives in the 1960s and ’70s, tracing the dangerous, exhausting work that once fed downriver paper mills. Sidney readers may recognize local author and wildlife biologist Ron Joseph, briefly noted here, whose book preserves other Maine outdoors stories from that same era.
   

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Wednesday June 3

• EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMING COMMITTEE
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🗞 Nearby News

Augusta

• Smush Cookie Creamery Opening June 4, 2026, in Augusta, Maine (wjbq.com)
• Augusta's rainbow crosswalks get coat of fresh paint (centralmaine.com)
• Gubernatorial candidate Angus King III stopping at all 16 counties in 24 hours for ‘Build a Better Maine Tour' (wabi.tv)

Oakland

• Camden Hills girls lacrosse holds off Messalonskee (centralmaine.com)

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P.S. The answer to today's riddle: Is the bar tender here? (Thank you W. M. for sending it in!)
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