May 2014
Expanding pathways to success
When you walk into Orion Hall on SMCC’s Midcoast Campus, you’ll be greeted by acrylic paintings, photographs, charcoal and pen drawings and other artwork hanging on the lobby walls. You’ll even find a very lifelike drawing of Jack Nicholson cackling in that maniacal way for which he is famous. Students in drawing, photography and painting […]
Some questions for the Board
Sometimes it seems proposed budgets, especially this year’s Brunswick School Board’s, are where darts are thrown at a dartboard to see what will stick. While a “Cadillac”school system is desirable, at the other end of the population are people who cannot afford to rent decent housing or pay the real estate taxes that such a […]
Spare the post office
I am writing in response to the letter by Stephen Gordon which appeared in the Times Record on May 15th. He was questioning the need of the United States Postal Service in the modern times. He seems to feel that daily delivery is unnecessary. The USPS handles about 160 BILLION pieces of mail annually with […]
Like a fun house mirror …
. . .The Department of Education distorts the true image of Richmond High School with its one trick report card. My name is Fred Browne. I am a Richmond resident and a substitute teacher within RSD 2 where I have been “subbing” for four years; long enough to see the present senior class progress through […]
Jurors follow facts to terror conviction
NEW YORK Jurors kept emotions about terrorism out of deliberations over the fate of an Egyptian Islamic cleric extradited from London to face terrorism charges, says the jury foreman who announced guilty verdicts. “I never had 9/11 enter into my decision-making process,” the foreman, Howard Bailynson, said as he stood outside the Manhattan federal courthouse […]
Post-mortem under way after California fish die-off
MARINA DEL REY, Calif. (AP) — Marine biologists worked Monday to determine whether a recent Southern California heat wave, lack of oxygen in the water or other factors might have caused the death of thousands of fish along the coastal waters of Marina del Rey. California Fish and Wildlife workers continued to remove the dead […]
Appeals court won’t rehear BP spill settlement issue
NEW ORLEANS A federal appeals court on Monday refused to reconsider its previous ruling that businesses don’t have to prove they were directly harmed by BP’s 2010 Gulf Of Mexico oil spill to collect settlement payments. The decision by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans could be a step toward resuming […]
State House copper may become art
AUGUSTA ( AP) — The century-old green copper sheathing being removed from the State House dome as part of a $ 1.3 million restoration project may be sold for something other than scrap. David Boulter, executive director of the Legislative Council, tells the Kennebec Journal a number of people have asked about how to get […]
Ex-tribal official pleads not guilty
BANGOR (AP) — The former finance director of the Passamaquoddy Indian Tribe has pleaded not guilty to stealing $20,000 from the Maine tribe. Charles Fourcloud was ordered detained at his arraignment Monday in U.S. District Court in Bangor on charges of theft from an Indian tribal government and three counts of embezzlement from an Indian […]