December 2016
2017 A Year of Predictions
This is always a great time of year. Christmas and Hanukkah have either come to an end or soon will. Now, we are left to think about how the year has passed and what we can look back upon as the momentous events of the year. Some of the events were really good. Some of […]
A Letter to President-Elect Trump About Health Care
Dear Mr. President-elect: Your position on universal health insurance has been admirably clear. You support it. You did before you ran for president and continued to do so in the campaign. In 2000, you wrote, “We must have universal health care.” In a Fox News debate last year, you said, “We have to take care […]
Dear Abby
DEAR ABBY: I am a 70-year-old woman, married for 50 years, and I hate my husband. He wants to go to swinger parties and toss me to other men. I tried it a couple of times for him and hated it. He is overbearing and rude. We don’t have any friends where we live, so […]
Guy “Guybo” Victor Wildes
Guy “Guybo” Victor Wildes passed away Monday, December 19th, 2016, in his home in Bowdoinham, he was age 61. Guy was survived by his two children, a son Jefferson Bishop of Westbrook, daughter Rachel Wildes of Bowdoinham, his sister Linda Burnette of Bowdoinham, his niece Ali, nephew Ethan, and many friends. He was predeceased by […]
Harold M. Drake Jr.
HARPSWELL – Harold Morton Drake Jr., of Canton, MA and Cundy’s Harbor, ME, formerly of Hyde Park, MA, passed away December 16, 2016 at his home in Cundy’s Harbor. This home was very special to Harold, as it was the retirement home he built for his beloved wife of 67 years, the late Olive Belle […]
Rachel B. “Daphne” Holden
1932 – 2016 Rachel B. “Daphne” Holden died on December 15, 2016. She was 84. Her passing was peaceful, and her beloved daughters and her minister were at her side. Daphne was born on March 2, 1932, in Washington, D.C., the daughter of Miriam E. Oatman and Frederick F. Blachly. She was the youngest of […]
Dennis Alan Wagurak
Dennis Alan Wagurak, age 69, passed away peacefully on Thursday, December 22, 2016 at Richmond Eldercare in Richmond, Maine. Dennis was born February 2, 1947, in Gardiner, Maine to Harry Wagurak and Phyllis ( Whitham) Wagurak. Dennis received his education in Pennsylvania. Dennis enlisted in the Navy where he proudly served his country for 23 […]
Growing number of Americans retiring outside of the U.S.
Newly widowed, Kay McCowen quit her job, sold her house, applied for Social Security and retired to Mexico. It was a move she and her husband, Mel, had discussed before he passed away in 2012. “I wanted to find a place where I could afford to live off my Social Security,” she said. “The weather […]