Welcome to another edition of “We’re all thumbs,” an occasional feature in which the editorial staff of Current Publishing picks proverbial winners and losers, heroes and villains from recent news stories: • Thumbs UP to the Maine Military Museum in South Portland, whose founder and curator, Lee Humiston, held a ceremony last Saturday afternoon awarding […]
2015
Posted inCurrent, Forecaster Opinion, Southern Forecaster
Editorial: We’re all thumbs
Welcome to another edition of “We’re all thumbs,” an occasional feature in which the editorial staff of Current Publishing picks proverbial winners and losers, heroes and villains from recent news stories: • Thumbs UP to the Maine Military Museum in South Portland, whose founder and curator, Lee Humiston, held a ceremony last Saturday afternoon awarding […]
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Posted inAnimals, News
Sunflower Farm’s live barn cam shows first newborn goats
The Cumberland farm hopes its live feed will be a popular sequel to last summer’s YouTube video that has since gotten millions of views.
Posted inNews, Politics
White House standoff with Congress over Iran bill not over
The rare and reluctant agreement between the president and the Republican-led Congress came after the White House maintained for weeks that congressional interference could jeopardize sensitive negotiations with Tehran.
Posted inCoastal Journal, The Forecaster
Into the woods: Brunswick-Topsham Land Trust trains citizen foresters
BRUNSWICK — Teachers, lawyers, a camp director and a state forester braved the melting snow and thick mud last Saturday to set up an environmental science plot at Crystal Spring Farm. The science workshop, hosted by the Brunswick-Topsham Land Trust, was held to teach educators and land trust volunteers how to set up a Forest Inventory […]
Posted inBusiness, News
Chinese competitor buys struggling maker of Segway scooters
The acquisition comes five months after the U.S. International Trade Commission agreed to investigate Segway’s claim that Ninebot and other Chinese companies were infringing on its patents and copyrights.
Posted inBusiness
San Francisco startup picks Portland as development hub
Figly, a company that hopes to facilitate the development of enterprise software, has hired local software engineer Elliot Murphy to open “Figly East” in Portland.
Posted inCurrent, Forecaster Opinion, Southern Forecaster
Politics And Other Mistakes: Welfare Music
What Republican Gov. Paul LePage would really like to do is dispose of the entire Maine Department of Health and Human Services. For a fiscal conservative like LePage, that seems reasonable. After all, DHHS spends more money than all but one other state department (education), and it wastes more money than any other state department […]
Posted inCurrent, The Forecaster
Cape residents protest multi-unit housing vision
Cape Elizabeth residents are objecting to zoning changes being proposed by the Planning Board that would allow developers to build multi-unit housing units in rural residential areas of town. After holding at least a dozen workshops throughout the past couple of years, the board voted unanimously March 23 to approve a package of land-use zoning […]
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Greetings from Zip Code 04074 (Life in the Suburbs): Spring cleaning brain dump
WHAT MATTERS Kathy Sparda has run the annual Baccalaureate Night for Scarborough High seniors at St. Max Church the past 20-plus years. Ceremony does not honor high SAT scores or championship athletes. Just a chance say to seniors – good luck, we love you, go get ’em. Refreshing. CELL PHONES Sorry. There is nothing more […]