2016 – Page 6929 – The Portland Press Herald

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Skiers, boarders miss Saddleback

by Deirdre Fleming January 3, 2016January 11, 2016

Eager to get out in the snow, they opt for other Maine ski areas.

Outdoors

Hiking in Maine: Preparations are first steps for Appalachian Trail

by Carey Kish January 3, 2016January 2, 2016

It takes 5 million steps, none more important than those at the beginning.

Letters

Letter to the editor: Community of Peaks Island deserves some spotlighting

January 3, 2016January 2, 2016

Your Dec. 27 special feature, “Welcome to Portland: The Neighborhoods,” lists 17 of them – but why not Peaks Island? It’s certainly at least as distinct a community as India Street, East Bayside or Deering Center. Peaks Islanders pay taxes to the city of Portland, and are subject to its rules. Perhaps islands like Peaks […]

Letters

Letter to the editor: Sen. Collins aids military-industrial complex

January 3, 2016January 2, 2016

As a resident of Maine, I find it incredibly embarrassing that our senior senator, Susan Collins, used her position as a senior member of the Senate Appropriations Committee to include $1 billion in the FY2016 Omnibus Bill for a new Navy destroyer for which the Defense Department had not even requested funding. While as a […]

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Letter to the editor: Sen. King should help secure proposed national park

January 3, 2016January 2, 2016

My wife and I recently moved from Gorham back to her hometown of Mount Chase, located on the northern border of the proposed Katahdin Woods & Waters National Park and Recreation Area. There, we’ll take over her family business, Mt. Chase Lodge, which is a recreational sporting lodge catering to hunters, hikers, snowmobilers, skiers and […]

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Letter to the editor: Argument to bar Muslims from entering U.S. is faulty

January 3, 2016January 2, 2016

I am writing in response to Howard Cutler’s Dec. 20 letter, “Trump correct on restricting Muslims.” Cutler claims that an American president would be within his or her rights to restrict Muslims entering the United States based on a 1952 act that states “whenever the president finds that the entry of any aliens or class […]

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Letter to the editor: What if we take LePage’s gun policy a step further?

January 3, 2016January 2, 2016

As gun violence continues unabated, and progress toward sensible and effective gun-control laws withers, Maine Gov. Paul LePage supports the proliferation of guns by opposing efforts to restrict both open and concealed gun carry. His friend and soulmate, Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey, as evidence of their mutual abhorrence of gun control laws, recently […]

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