TOPSHAM School Administrative District 75’s policy committee struggled with the wording of a policy Thursday for charter school student participation in extracurricular and interscholastic activities. Earlier in the school year, district officials discovered some Harpswell Coastal Academy students were participating in middle and high school sports, riding SAD 75’s late bus. At the time, SAD […]
2015
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MEETINGS
Arrowsic BOARD OF SELECTMEN, Monday, 6 p.m., Town Hall, 340 Arrowsic Road Bowdoin BOARD OF SELECTMEN, Monday, 6:30 p.m., town office PLANNING BOARD, Tuesday, 7 p.m., town office Bowdoinham ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON AGING, Monday, 3 p.m., Coombs Municipal Building BOARD OF SELECTMEN, Tuesday, 5:30 p.m., Coombs Municipal Building PLANNING BOARD, Thursday, 7 p.m., Coombs Meeting […]
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Preventing problems and keeping youth safe
I would like to acknowledge the many great actions that help keep our youth safe during prom and graduation season at our local high schools. In public health, it is often hard to figure out for sure if a single action has had a positive outcome. We rely on what are called “best practices,” partnerships, […]
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Greek Crisis Could Threaten U.S. Jobs Gordon L. Weil
“That was Greek to me.” These words, written by Shakespeare in 1599, means something is too hard to understand. Now, it applies to Greece itself. What’s all the fuss about and does it matter to us? The answer to the second question: your job could depend on how the Greek financial crisis is settled. The […]
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Defaulting on Personal Responsibility
Boy, was I dumb to pay back my college loans. That is the conclusion of writer Lee Siegel, who explained in a New York Times op-ed why he never paid back his. Siegel’s parents had limited means, you see, so, at 17, he borrowed to go to a pricey private school for two years. When […]
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Exceptionalism: The Republic of Venice — Part III
Throughout its long history the Republic of Venice had many enemies. In spite of this, the little country survived for over a thousand years as empires rose and fell around it. To its enemies, the government of Venice seemed dominated by unimaginative old men who spent most of their time working in committees. There was […]
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Baseball and Black History
Last summer, a 13-yearold named Mo’ne Davis landed on the cover of Sports Illustrated, a national sensation after she pitched a shutout in the Little League World Series, where almost all of the other players are boys. She’s believed to be the only black girl ever to participate in the competition. This summer, she plans […]
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Pope urges revolution to save Earth, fix ‘perverse’ economy
VATICAN CITY In a sweeping environmental manifesto aimed at spurring concrete action, Pope Francis called Thursday for a bold cultural revolution to correct what he described as a “structurally perverse” economic system where the rich exploit the poor, turning Earth into an “immense pile of filth.” Francis framed climate change as an urgent moral issue […]