April is Donate Life Month, so if you don’t know about the science and legal landscape of organ donation, now is a great time to learn about it. Really — it’s not just another bureaucrat’s appeal to participate in a program. Organ donation is something I’ve always agreed with and thought important. When I got […]

BY GORDON L. WEIL Two Native Americans, fired from their jobs at a rehab center because their blood tested positive for mescaline, applied for unemployment benefits. Despite explaining the drug resulted from their religious use of peyote, they were rejected. They sued the state of Oregon, and their case went to the U.S. Supreme Court. […]

Some points of view in a recent article in the Times Record (“ Woolwich library vote in June?” The Times Record, March 24) need a response. A group of petitioners succeeded in having an article placed in this year’s town meeting warrant that would move the vote for Woolwich’s contribution to Patten Free Library to […]

For Eli Goodrich, the Bath Area YMCA summer camps provided a great way to spend the past eight summers. “It was a terrific way to get out in the summer,” he recalled. The 14-year-old Morse High School freshman will be spending his ninth camp summer this June as a counselorin training. “Too often kids just […]

You could almost feel sorry for McDonald’s. That’s an odd sentiment when you consider that the company’s revenues in 2014 were $27.4 billion and its stock price makes it worth something like $92 billion. It’s among the world’s most valuable brands and has three times the U.S. market share of Subway, its nearest competitor. Enviable. […]

E. Brunswick residents need to speak up On Monday, during the Brunswick Town Council meeting, one of the agenda items concerning the former radar site — now named the Capt. William A. Fitzgerald USN Recreation and Conservation Area — was the cause of some discussion. Most of the councilors wanted to be sure that no […]