2017 is just about here. A new year begins. The perennial hope that a fresh calendar will bring forth both renewal and positive change again beckons. Few are likely to express any longing for the one we have just collectively endured, mostly because it was so unrelentingly divisive. Then again, who can opine about anything […]
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Honor the Will of the People, But Do No Harm
As we look forward to the New Year, we think of those who are struggling to get by. Unfortunately, their struggle is about to get worse. Maine needs to attract more jobs, more families and more opportunity. Raising the minimum wage too high, too fast will make it much harder to do that. Increasing low […]
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Dear Abby
DEAR ABBY: My twin sister and I were raised by a single mom. Because Mom received welfare benefits, she was required to list “potential” fathers in order to receive aid. After a time, the state required paternity tests be given to the men she had listed, so we had no idea who our biological father […]
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Actress Debbie Reynolds, 84, dies a day after her daughter
LOS ANGELES Debbie Reynolds, who lit up the screen in “Singin’ in the Rain’ and other Hollywood classics despite a tumultuous life, has died a day after losing her daughter, Carrie Fisher. Reynolds was 84. Her son, Todd Fisher, said Reynolds died Wednesday. “She’s now with Carrie and we’re all heartbroken,” Fisher said from Cedars- […]
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Brother of JonBenét Ramsey sues CBS for $750,000,000 over series
DENVER The older brother of Jon- Benet Ramsey is suing CBS and others for $750 million, saying his reputation was ruined after a television series that concluded he killed his 6-year-old sister two decades ago. In the lawsuit filed Wednesday, Burke Ramsey claims that the network, its production company and the experts interviewed in the […]
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Frank B. Wright Sr.
LEWISTON — Frank B. Wright Sr., 83, of Lewiston died Wednesday December 21, 2016 at D’Youville Pavilion. He was born in Canaan, Maine on January 21, 1933 the son of the late Dwight D. and Mary Catherine (Croud) and had been a resident of this community for most of his life. He had served his […]
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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 […]