HEBRON (AP) — Family members of the Maine woman shot and killed by a hunter say she was on her own land digging for gemstones when she was killed. Authorities say a 38-yearold Hebron man fatally shot 34-year-old Karen Wrentzel on Saturday morning. Officials have still not publicly identified the man, and did not say […]
2017
advertisement
Posted inTimes Record, Times Record Opinion
Elections, Not Referendums, Are the Answer
For all it was allowed to do during its special session last Monday, the Legislature might as well have stayed home. We’re witnessing a period of outright obstructionism that strongly resembles Republicans’ national performance during the Obama administration; it won’t end until Maine elects a new governor next year. Lawmakers did amend a local “food […]
Posted inTimes Record, Times Record Opinion
Two Sides of Visiting the Big City
Recently my coworkers and I took the bus to Boston for the day to meet staff we had only spoken on the phone with since a recent merger. My day job had gone from 50 employees in two offices to over 1,500 all over the world. It was time to see where some of the […]
Posted inTimes Record, Times Record Opinion
LETTERS
Misrepresenting the Work of the Conservation Commission I’d like to respond to Jilda Izzo’s letter of Oct. 18 about the Brunswick Conservation Commission’s Sept. 13 meeting. Ms. Izzo and I agree that in our gun-saturated present an aside referring to the hostilities of the Hatfields and the McCoys was unfortunate. I said so in apology […]
Posted inTimes Record
Dear Abby
DEAR ABBY: My sister “Eileen” is married to her second husband, a man I’ll call Harry. He’s nice, but some of his choices landed him in jail for a while. I’m polite when we see him, but I don’t trust him. Eileen and Harry live beyond their means. They rent a large house and buy […]
Posted inTimes Record
Native American activist Dennis Banks dies
Dennis Banks, who helped found the American Indian Movement and engaged in sometimes-violent uprisings against the U.S. government, including the armed occupation of Wounded Knee in 1973, died at age 80, his family announced Monday. Banks, whose Ojibwe name was Nowacumig, was one of several activists who founded AIM in Minneapolis in 1968, and he […]