The highly regarded Buddhist monk is arrested as Beijing tightens its grip over the region.
2013
Posted inReligion and Values
Reflections: Resolving to learn French as a spirtual practice
Every year I make a New Year’s resolution to study French. Again. Mostly I start. I take an adult education class. I listen to CDs in the car. I do a few minutes of Rosetta Stone every day. But when the verb tenses go further than my knowledge, I quit. “It’s too hard,” I tell […]
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Posted inNation & World
Decorated Hispanic soldier dies at 82
‘Rudy’ Hernandez won the Medal of Honor for his heroism during the Korean War.
Posted inOpinion
Maine Voices: Replace buzzwords with grounded thinking, passion for teaching
When administrators and teachers instill excitement about learning, and when parents care, students thrive.
Posted inOpinion
Port City Post: Plenty of good reasons for buying into an ‘as is, where is’ philosophy
For example, it makes it easier to accept our faults and to let others take away our most valuable junk.
Posted inOpinion
The humble Farmer: Remember when the best ‘Text Stop’ was a simple period(.)
The new road signs are now greeted as eagerly as were ‘Men’s Room’ or ‘Moody’s Diner’ signs in an earlier age.
Posted inReligion and Values
Religion Briefs
LEWISTON St. Dominic Academy gets $10,000 gift for iPad minis An anonymous donor has presented St. Dominic Academy with an unsolicited check for $10,000. The money will be used to purchase 40 iPad minis for the school’s Lewiston campus (pre-K to Grade 6), located at 17 Baird St. Plans are to use the computers to […]
Posted inReligion and Values
Religion Calendar
Jan. 4 and Jan. 5 ChIME workshops: “Pastoral Care,” Jan. 4 with the Rev. Anna Schmulowitz-Schutz and “Judaism,” Jan. 5 with the Rev. Joel Grossman and Rabbi Hillel Katzir. Both programs are held from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and are open to the public. The fee is $60. Call ChIME at 347-6740 for details […]
Posted inJournal Tribune
Wolverines top young Rams in final of Tiger tourney
BIDDEFORD — With a regular-season game against Cape Elizabeth on the horizon, Kennebunk boys basketball coach John Dube turned to his JV players to try and win the championship game of the Biddeford Holiday Tournament on Friday. And while the young Rams showed ample ability, their collective youth failed them against a veteran Wiscasset team, […]
Posted inJournal Tribune, Obituaries
Saturday, Dec. 28, 2013
Madeleine Rousselle Cote, 83, of Old Orchard Beach and formerly of Biddeford, died Thursday, Dec. 26, 2013 at Southern Maine Medical Center, following a brief illness. Visiting hours will be Sunday, Dec. 29 from 1-4 p.m. at Hope Memorial Chapel, 480 Elm St. in Biddeford. A Mass of Christian burial will be celebrated on Monday, […]