grocery stores

While the price of nearly everything is dropping, the price of food keeps going up

You could soon be paying a lot more for steak, chicken, ribs, hamburgers, and more

You can expect them to be closed on Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Easter

Shoppers turning to local greens as a replacement for potentially contaminated romaine lettuce

Plastic bags will remain in Waterville stores

If you get your groceries at Hannaford, you definitely want to take advantage of their new rewards program.

Yesterday (May 2) The Maine House of Representatives endorsed a new bill looking to let small grocery stores to now be open in Maine on Christmas, Thanksgiving and Easter.

1967 Cony graduate Norm Rodrique's movie Les Magasins (The Stores) has certainly brought up lots of good memories for people who grew up on, or know people who grew up on Sand Hill in Augusta. As we told you back in January, Rodrique put together a great 47 minute video that he wrote, produced and directed in 2015-16 capturing a slice of life growing up in the 50s and 60s on Sand Hill, the Franco-

Tomorrow a storm is coming, and it looks like we’re getting hammered again in the latter part of the upcoming weekend. A storm is is in the forecast for Sunday night into Monday morning. What do you do to prepare for storms? Do you go out and get extra milk and bread? Maybe you buy gallons of water? How about beer for a storm party?

Earlier today I was at the grocery store and the bagger asked me if I wanted "paper or plastic”. A once common question, now usually unless you specify that you want paper you’ll get plastic. I replied by saying "plastic" and then groceries went into three or four of those plastic bags.