X-Country skiing gets rough

Charlie from Dixfield, Maine, runs a blog called Travels with Charlie. I noticed in his latest posts an account of a hit and run accident (on skis!) during the recent 24th Great Caribou Bog Wicked Winter Ski Tour & Race. He admits:

I rounded the next turn and promptly mugged a little old lady tourer who was too slow to respond to my "Track!! Track!!" I regret that in these circumstances, the race must go on, but if the victim, by some strange coincidence, reads this blog---I am truly sorry, both for the mugging and not stopping to see if all your bones were all unbroken.

I hope we've upped his chances of getting his apology to its victim.

Profuse Apologies to mailing list members

Hello all, I received an email this morning complaining about spam on my Google Strange Maine mailing group, and I have just finished banning the two so-called "members" who were polluting the message pool, and somehow hacked the welcome message, with porn. They also hacked the settings for posting, and that has been fixed as well.

I apologize profusely for the fact that this went on for so long before I noticed it. I've been in the middle of moving house since late October, and have been unable to give the site the attention necessary to maintain a clean and normal atmosphere. Now I am relatively settled and things should be getting back to normal (ha!).

Again, many apologies, and a big THANK YOU to Ekido kai for pointing this out to me.

And by the way... Happy Holidays everyone!
Michelle Souliere
Editor, Strange Maine Gazette and blog