Plant some basil in your
gardens this spring and
you’ll have a delicious pesto to eat all summer long.

Blues fans got wind that blues singer 
Big Pete Pearson was moving to Maine, supposedly to retire. That was 15 years ago; he’s still rousing thousands with his mighty microphone.

Deep in the woods of Montville, the sound of fiddle music floats through the trees. At first you can’t see the groups of people, sitting in circles, picking, strumming, and blowing—but you hear them. If you didn’t know better, you might think you had stumbled upon a lost, albeit musical, civilization.

Our “Super Seniors” feature last May was so popular that we’re back for a second helping. The three seniors featured here range in age from 71 to 99, but they have one thing in common: a positive outlook on their long and varied lives. Stan Marshall has been doing volunteer work 
since he was a child. Clara Lincoln Swan has known every president of Husson University and helped convince 
Chesley H. Husson to change the school’s name from the Maine School of Commerce. George Hale has called 
more than 5,000 harness races, countless high school basketball games, and still gets up at 3:30 every weekday to greet early-morning radio audiences in the greater Bangor area. These are their stories.

Home health care aides can make all the difference in keeping Maine’s elderly population happily at home.

Ron Dennis of Dennis Paper and Food Service is committed to delivering as many Maine-made products across the state as possible. And logging just under a million miles on Maine’s roads last year, we’d say they’re doing a pretty good job.