PORTLAND (AP) — A plan to run passenger train service from Portland to Montreal will be the subject of a public forum in Maine’s largest city. The event is scheduled for 6 p.m. on Thursday at the Stroudwater Distillery at Thompson’s Point. It is hosted by the Sierra Club, Maine Rail Transit Coalition and AARP […]
August 2016
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Maine’s Micmac Indians complete $2M wellness center
PRESQUE ISLE, Maine (AP) — The Aroostook Band of Micmac Indians is celebrating the completion of a $2.25 million tribal wellness center in far northern Maine. The center is a more than 8,000-square-foot facility located in Presque Isle. It’s shaped like an eagle. The United States Department of Agriculture says it’s symbolic for the tribe […]
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LETTERS
Election of LePage gave Maine a black eye Thank you for your editorial, LePage Should Resign (The Times Record, Aug. 30, 2016). It was not my vote in either election that gave the state of Maine this Black Eye. However, that is no consolation, but you and Sara Gideon saying what needed saying, that is […]
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QUOTE OF THE DAY
You are here for but an instant, and you mustn’t take yourself too seriously. — Edgar Rice Burroughs
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Step Right Up…
If there was a carnival barker standing outside of the Town Hall in Brunswick they might be hoarse now as they tell one and all about the wonderful opportunities that exist for those who take out papers to run for one of Brunswick’s open Council or School Board positions this fall. The problem is, besides […]
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Why We’ll Keep Going Back to BIW
I recently returned from a nearly month-long trip to South Korea where I, and two others from Veterans For Peace, visited several farming villages that have been devastated by the expansion of bases for US military operations in the region. While gone I missed the West Bath Court arraignment for the Zumwalt 12 arrestees. We […]
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Dear Abby
DEAR ABBY: I have been dating a married man for 30 years. Our relationship started a few months after he got married. I know it was wrong to begin the relationship, but it started just as a way for me to get sexual experience. For him, I think he was infatuated with the idea that […]