Ashland News

Although most teenagers can't wait for the day they get their licenses, driving isn't as fun when you get older and have to pay for gas and vehicle maintenance, drive on icy roads and navigate through snowstorms to get to work.

David Dockham of Houlton stacks pine lumber at Fraser Papers' Ashland sawmill in January 2008.

Snow is expected throughout the day today, although the snow will mix with sleet and rain this afternoon along and south of a line from Mars Hill to Masardis.

At the public's first opportunity to weigh in on the immediate future of Maine railroads, the message was clear: Make them work for Maine businesses.

For some, their service to their country was years ago, but they have not been forgotten.