“Maine, The Way Life Should Be” is great branding, but difficult to sustain, whether pursuing its promise or accommodating its shortfalls. I have been more than willing to endure the financial and cultural compromises accompanying that elusive idealization, so as to enjoy its larger measure of pretty darn close reality. In Maine, quality of place […]
May 2014
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Wind power for Maine
From Florida to Maine, out to 600′ of sea depth, the wind resource equals 965 to 1372 annual TeraWatt-hours, using 40 percent capacity factor turbines. According to a new Stamford University report that’s enough to fully meet the East Coast’s demand for electricity, or 1/3 of U.S. demand. Except in summer, when solar systems can […]
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What happened to respect?
As I picked up the Times Record on Tuesday, May 5, and turned to page 2, I could hardly believe what I was about to read? It looked as if some of our people in August’s state capitol forgot what the word respect means, and how they define it. The paper said that the LLAG […]
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Parking again
So once again it’s parking, parking, parking. You know, it’s always parking as the problem. Currently Coastal Enterprises Inc. (CEI), by all accounts a wanted addition to the Brunswick business community, has a submission before the Planning Board for a new office building on Federal Street. But the Planning Board will have to ignore a […]
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House to approve new Benghazi investigation
WASHINGTON House Republicans are set to begin a special investigation of the deadly attack on the U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya. Democrats are considering a boycott of the committee, which is expected to be approved formally when the Republican-led House votes this afternoon. They don’t want their presence to provide legitimacy to what they […]
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Putin oversees Russian nuclear forces exercise
MOSCOW President Vladimir Putin has overseen a military exercise involving Russia’s nuclear forces amid escalating tensions over Ukraine. Putin said the exercise had been planned back in November. He was speaking today in televised remarks from the Defense Ministry’s headquarters where he oversaw the exercise along with leaders of several ex- Soviet nations which are […]
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Wolverines give Powers first win
WISCASSET Glenn Powers’ first season leading the Wiscasset High School softball team began with five losses. His Wolverines averaged just three runs a game while allowing over 20, and were outscored 103-15. All that changed, at least for one game, on Wednesday, as his team put together a complete effort in a 4-0 Mountain Valley […]
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Middlebrooks, Red Sox rally past Reds
BOSTON Will Middlebrooks hit an RBI single with the bases loaded, capping a tworun rally in the eighth inning that sent the Boston Red Sox over the Cincinnati Reds 4-3 Wednesday night for a sweep of the two-game interleague series. David Ortiz and Mike Napoli also drove in runs for the World Series champion Red […]
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Reading drops Sea Dogs, 8-3
READING, Pa. — The Reading Fightin’ Phils (15- 14) salvaged the final game of the Eastern League series in an 8-3 win over the Portland Sea Dogs Wednesday afternoon at FirstEnergy Stadium. Portland wrapped up its road trip with a 4-3 record. The Sea Dogs return home tonight to begin a four-game series with the […]