TICK TALK seems to be the rage these days, due to an unusually heavy onslaught of the nasty little buggers. A friend tells me she came out of the woods with 10 wood ticks on her clothing on a cloudy Memorial Day, despite using natural bug spray and covering her skin abundantly.
Longtime friend and outdoorsman Dr. Frank Hubbell of Saco Medical Group will give a talk on the subject on June 6 at 7 p.m. at the Cook Memorial Library in Tamworth Village.
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