NEW FACES • Mona Movafaghi and Christina Simpson joined Drummond Woodsum’s new immigration practice group. Movafaghi has 20 years of experience practicing immigration law and was most recently with the firm Wiggin & Nourie in Manchester, N.H. Simpson is a 2009 graduate of Penn State’s Dickinson School of Law and has practiced immigration law since. […]
2011
Posted inBusiness
High-tech help for seniors
Intel, GE and others work to find ways technology can enable seniors to stay in their homes – safely.
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Datebook
Friday “Marketing the Nonprofit,” 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., including media relations, advertising and market research with presenter Dr. Frank Burtnett. Held at University of Maine Hutchinson Center, Route 3, Belfast. To register, contact Nancy Boyington at 338-8002 (toll free 800-753-9044) or [email protected]. The cost is $150. July 12 “Five Years in Government Ethics: Lessons […]
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: Too many cougar sightings for all witnesses to be wrong
Big cats may yet be prowling our woods, even though science can offer no proof of that.
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: Legislators can go home with their heads high
Despite the contentious issues on the horizon, lawmakers accomplished a lot this year.
Posted inOpinion
As the like-minded link on the Web, national unity slips
Americans on social media gravitate to what they want to hear, so they’re exposed to less.
Posted inOpinion
Maine Observer: Maine has many aspects, all of them attractive
The state draws many people to it in all of its varied seasons, some to stay for a time and some to stay forever.
Posted inOpinion
Maine Voices: College for all? A lot of ‘maybes’
The key to being ‘college or career ready’ is a focus on developing all students to reach their individual potentials.
Posted inBusiness
Wary lenders handcuff small businesses, hurt economy
Loans are critical to small-business expansion, but lenders are making that credit hard to obtain.
Posted inLetters, Opinion
Letters to the editor, July 3, 2011Weigh costs of wind, fossil fuels
In the July 26 Telegram, there was a front-page article about the possibility of some more wind turbines in Washington County (“Nowhere’s special”). Nowhere’s special, eh? No, everywhere is special. Some objections by guests, guides and camp owners to wind turbines are understandable. You can see wind turbines. They want their beloved woods and their […]