I appreciate your concerns as expressed in the recent Editorial “Education Not Force the Key for Vaccinations.” There is much truth underlying your statements, but there are several significant factual errors and omissions. The overwhelming majority of the children, infants, and adults becoming ill with measles in the Disneyland-associated outbreak in California are not immunized. […]

My acting career peaked early. It was in 1956, to be exact, when I played the role of Algernon Montcrieff in Oscar Wilde’s farcical comedy, “The Importance of Being Earnest.” In fairness, there was little competition among 9th grade boys for acting roles at Parkersburg (W.Va.) High School in the 1950’s. At that time, being […]

The original Longfellow Elementary School on Longfellow Avenue in Brunswick was named for Bowdoin graduate Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Class of 1825) and was built in 1924. It was built on land once owned by Joshua Chamberlain of the Bowdoin Class of 1852. He was a college professor, a Civil War hero who attained the rank […]

It is time to give the people a voice on the federal budget. It would be an alternative to years of gridlock visible when President Obama released his $4 trillion budget this week, and was met with tart Republican reactions: House Speaker John Boehner labeled Obama’s proposal as “ a plan for more taxes, more […]

Joe MacMahan admits unapologetically that he is the quintessential “Y-guy.” Most every day he’s at the Bath Area Family YMCA at all hours, supervising a diverse schedule of activities. The thing of it is, Joe would probably be at the Y even if he didn’t work there. That’s what a Y-guy does. A “Y-guy” is […]