May 2014
Back to the chalkboard
It’s that time of year again, when students await their final grades, with anticipation and trepidation. A single letter can make a great deal of difference, between moving on in one’s school career, or repeating a grade. Schools, too, will be getting the dreaded report cards next week, too. This is the second report card […]
Clean elections a vote against cynicism
If you’re angry, annoyed, disturbed, or upset about the influence of money on politics, you’re like just about every American who’s interested in the subject. The steady stream of U.S. Supreme Court decisions holding that Congress, and the state legislatures, can’t make any regulation, rule or law to limit campaign contributions or spending, lest it […]
Making money the old fashioned way
Institutional Investor’s latest “rich list” in its Alpha magazine, its survey of the 25 highest-paid hedge fund managers, is out — and it turns out that these guys make a lot of money. Surprise! Yet before we dismiss the report as nothing new, let’s think about what it means that these 25 men (yes, they’re […]
Moratorium on rail cars carrying oil
To the Editor: Calls from the federal Department of Transportation today for railroad companies to use sturdier tanker cars and to disclose to local emergency response officials details of shipments of oil by rail fall far short of improving safety. Although it’s good that local emergency officials will be told when explosive crude oil is […]
Ready for a change in Augusta
To the Editor: This Legislative session’s debacle was not only a waste of our lawmakers’ time, but perpetuated misery for Mainers without health insurance and others who could have been helped by the work the Legislature did. Too many good bills went down to defeat by veto pen and ultimately, the cowardice of the Republican […]
Angie Ann Laverdiere
HARPSWELL — Angie A. Laverdiere, age 90, of Harpswell Island Road, died Thursday, May 8, 2014, at MaineGeneral Medical Center in Augusta. She was born on Sept. 22, 1923, in Syracuse, NY, the daughter of Samuel and Mattie Vincquera Palmisano. She attended Syracuse, NY schools and received a nursing degree from the University of Rochester. […]
80-year-old woman goes skydiving
WATERVILLE (AP) — An 80-year-old mother of seven from Waterville has fulfilled a nearly two-decade old dream by skydiving. Marjorie Bell leaped out of an airplane and with the help of a tandem skydiver floated 10,000 feet to the ground on Mother’s Day, one day after her birthday. Bell tells the Morning Sentinel that she […]