NAMI Maine has the honor of training law enforcement across the state to address the needs of individuals with mental illness. For the past decade, NAMI has had a close partnership with the Penobscot County Sheriff in order to ensure community-based services are wrapped around the jail population. While many of us take the work […]
2015
Heroin Doesn’t Have to Be a Killer
It’s a subject we find hard to talk about, even though it kills more people in America than guns or cars and claims more lives than murder or suicide. I’m talking about drug overdoses, taking close to 44,000 lives a year. These often follow a pipeline from prescription painkillers to heroin — a result, in […]
Soros Pushes U.S. Bailouts, Weapons for Ukraine
If you look at the track record of the interventionists, you might think they would pause before taking on more projects. Each of their past projects has ended in disaster, yet still they press on. Last week the website Zero Hedge posted a report about hacked emails between billionaire George Soros and Ukrainian President Poroshenko. […]
CALENDAR
WED/10 BLOOD DRIVES RED CROSS BLOOD DRIVE, 1-6p.m., Bath Knights of Columbus, 807 Middle St., Bath. 1-800-RED-CROSS. Drop-ins welcome. MISCELLANEOUS A PEEK BEHIND THE CURTAIN: PANEL DISCUSSION FOCUSING ON MSMT’S “THE FULL MONTY,” noon to 1p.m. The actors, creative team and administrative staff hosted by Carla Maria Verdino-Sullwold. LUNCH AND LEARN SERIES, 11:15a.m. to 1p.m., […]
Dear Abby
DEAR ABBY: Several months after I had my first daughter from a six-year relationship that ended sadly, I started flirting with a married man. (I realize now that I was still heartbroken and trying desperately to forget my ex.) The flirtation turned into a full-blown affair that resulted in another child. Her father isn’t in […]
TODAY IN HISTORY
Today is Wednesday, June 10, the 161st day of 2015. There are 204 days left in the year. On June 10, 1865, Wagner’s opera “Tristan and Isolde” premiered in Munich.