I don’t own a gun, I don’t want to own a gun. I do believe the following to be true: You have a right to bear arms, to protect your life and family. You do not need an assault weapon to do that. As far as using assault weapons for hunting, give me a break […]
2012
Posted inCoastal Journal, Forecaster Opinion, Northern Forecaster, Portland Forecaster, Southern Forecaster, The Forecaster
The Universal Notebook: The (almost) silent treatment
After a brief flirtation with Facebook, I decided last week that the social media site was not useful to me. I deactivated my Facebook page. It was just more aggravation than it was worth, it was wasting my time, and, frankly, I didn’t care for some of the people who popped up on “my” page. […]
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Letter: Angels in Falmouth, and above
The horrific events in Newtown, Conn., have haunted people everywhere. On Tuesday evening, Dec. 18, at the annual Winter Concert of the Falmouth Elementary School, I felt the spirits of 20 children, ages 6 and 7, from the Sandy Hook Elementary School. Parents with siblings and grandparents had traveled through gloomy weather to fill nearly […]
Posted inPortland Forecaster, The Forecaster
Streets are for more than just drivers under new Portland policy
PORTLAND — A new policy may make city streets more pedestrian-friendly – and also friendlier to cyclists, transit riders, emergency responders, truck drivers, car drivers and others. The Complete Streets policy, adopted at a Dec.17 City Council meeting, calls for balancing the needs of all those who use the streets in order to reduce travel […]
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George Will: Big-government backer Reid obsessed with stopping filibusters
Ideas are not responsible for the people who believe them, but when evaluating Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s ideas for making the Senate more like the House of Representatives, consider the source. Reid is just a legislative mechanic trying to make Congress’ machinery responsive to his party’s progressivism. And proper progressives think the Constitution, understood […]
Posted inTimes Record
Dresden filmmaker chronicles ‘disastrous’ year on local farm
DRESDEN A Dresden filmmaker has chronicled the challenges and struggles of a local farming couple. Filmed during the “disastrous” growing season of 2009, “Goranson Farm: An Uncertain Harvest” follows Jan Goranson and Rob Johanson, their family and the community that surrounds them as they struggle against the worst growing season in their 25 years of […]
Posted inTimes Record
Onlookers rush to stop Freeport house fire
FREEPORT Two people received minor injuries and a Flying Point Road home sustained an estimated $10,000 in damage after an electrical candle short-circuited and ignited a second-story blaze Saturday. Passers-by saw the blaze at 4:44 p.m., called the fire department and then went into the house and tried to douse the flames with water. The […]
Posted inTimes Record
RSU 1 to go with majority vote
Regional School Unit 1 will determine the results of a vote on the proposed new cost-sharing formula according to the aggregate vote totals instead of a town-by-town basis, the school unit’s business manager said. Ruth Moore said that method is the same as the one used by RSU 1 in its annual budget referendums. The […]
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New kind of skating surfaces in Wiscasset
Roland Lacombe owns Monkey See, Monkey Do, a fun place to go if you like climbing on ropes and swings during the summer months in Wiscasset. But, Lacombe was looking for something for kids to do during those cold Maine winter months, so he came up with an idea of installing a synthetic skating surface […]