LISBON The town of Lisbon will have to make a decision soon regarding the town’s ambulance provider. Lisbon was faced with the decision when the town’s long time provider, Lisbon Emergency, asked for a $127,885 stipend in the 2018- 19 fiscal year. The provider has been reliant on grant programs and has not previously received […]
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STUDENT NOTES
WOOLWICH CENTRAL SCHOOL High Honors Grade 6: Grace Chubbuck, Kacey-Jane Clark, Case Jacobs, Sebastian Lafer, Keith Libby, Madison Malcolm, Trace McFarland, Edie McKay, Sarah Ouellette, Michaela Pettersen, Apple Smith, Abigail Sprague, Lilian Wright Grade 7: Gavin Baillargeon, Caleb Cousins, Natalie Emmerson, Elizabeth Fuller, Jackson Fuller, Riley Gale, Kassidy Gustafson, Alexandria Hall, Margaret Hibl, Brooke Lindsay, […]
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FOMB presents ‘A Tale of Three Privies’
BRUNSWICK Friends of Merrymeeting Bay on Wednesday, Jan. 10 will host their annual potluck supper, membership meeting and fourth presentation of the 21st annual winter speaker series. Lee Cranmer, retired Maine Historic Preservation Commission historic archaeologist will be the featured speaker. The event takes place in Bowdoin’s Cram Alumni Building, 83 Federal St., Brunswick. All […]
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Pejepscot Historical Society rolls out programs for winter, spring
BRUNSWICK Pejepscot Historical Society, which turns 130 years old in 2018, has released its program calendar for the winter and spring. The society offers History Happy Hours, a noontime lecture/slideshow series, and a book group. “We’ve tried to put together an array of topics that address all three towns we serve — Brunswick, Topsham and […]
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Trump-Russia Ties Must be Investigated
Paul Ackerman sets up a straw man to attack in asking, “Is the Current Special Counsel Investigation Comparable to Watergate?” (Dec. 27). And in attacking that straw man he fires off a number of misstatements and slurs. No, the current Special Counsel investigation is not Watergate. It is a quite different, serious investigation. The Watergate […]
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QUOTE OF THE DAY
Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go. — Brooks Atkinson, American drama critic (1894-1984)
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‘This, Too, Shall Pass’ – Happy New Year!
As the year turns, there are some things I haven’t been able to understand. I figure I’m like most people. Why doesn’t President Trump get it? His popularity is in the steepest free-fall of any president, yet he keeps promising policies most people don’t want and whose implications for America’s role in the world and […]
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The Christmas Fire
December 1946. The young family had moved to Lisbon Falls, Maine from Darien, Connecticut just a few months earlier. The Christmas presents were wrapped; the children (ages 7, 4 and 2 months) were snuggled in their beds. It was cold outside; snow covered the ground. The four-year old girl was sleeping on one side of […]
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Today in History
In 1808, the 17th president of the United States, Andrew Johnson, was born in Raleigh, North Carolina. In 1845, Texas was admitted as the 28th state. In 1890, the Wounded Knee massacre took place in South Dakota as an estimated 300 Sioux Indians were killed by U.S. troops sent to disarm them. In 1916, James […]