Mainers have until March 18 to enter the My Maine Sign! contest and pitch their playful message to display on digital roadside message boards.
March 2018
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Maine Voices: St. Patrick’s Day is perfect time to toast Irish and American rebels
We should celebrate by honoring both our rebel Irish and revolutionary Yankee patriots.
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Briefs
SANFORD York County foundation earns $45,000 in grants The York County Community Action Corporation has been awarded three grants from United Way of York County totaling $45,000. • A two-year grant will support the corporation’s York County Transport program, which provides critical transportation to medical appointments for low-income York County residents. York County Transport expects […]
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Community meals
MONDAY Free community breakfast, including eggs, bacon, pancakes, French toast and pastries, as well as coffee, tea, juice and milk. Open to all. 6:30 to 9 a.m. Chestnut Street Baptist Church, 29 Chestnut St., Camden. 542-0360. WEDNESDAY Free meal, Trinity Lutheran Church. 5 to 6 p.m. Westbrook Community Center, 426 Bridge St. 854-5653. THURSDAY Free […]
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Births
Mid Coast Hospital Ellery Lynn Ruest, born Feb. 21 to Nicole Leanne Hayward and Sterling Tate Ruest of Freeport. Grandparents are Bradley and Teresa Hayward of Freeport and Nancy and Lesley Ruest of Pownal. Jack Hale Wyman, born Feb. 25 to Brandon Scott and Sarah Elizabeth Hale Wyman of Harpswell. Grandparents are Lisa and James […]
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Events
SCARBOROUGH Kids First Center director will give luncheon talk The Scarborough Kiwanis Club will host a luncheon talk with Kids First Center Executive Director Nici Carbone from noon to 1 p.m. Friday at The Egg & I, 183 Route 1. Call Joyce Leary Clark at 329-8488 or email [email protected]. Fiber arts techniques will be shown […]
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Letter to the editor: Armed guards in schools won’t protect all who need it
While protecting our children/students should be our first priority, President Trump needs to remember it’s not just the schools that need protecting. It’s also churches, movie theaters, concert halls, office buildings, shopping centers – and anywhere else a gunman could find a crowd. Do we put armed guards everywhere? All so the NRA can take […]
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Letter to the editor: Trump/Russia dossier is fruit of poison tree
What may bring closure and relief to the non-stop hysteria, familiar to all of us as the investigation into President Trump’s alleged collusion with the Russians to influence the 2016 election, is a little known legal term known as “fruit of the poisonous tree.” This metaphor is used to describe evidence that is illegally obtained […]
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Letter to the editor: Are Americans more evil than rest of world?
Dave Ricker’s letter to “stop going after our guns: teach kids respect” raises the point that “evil does not abide in a firearm but in the heart of man.” Of course I agree with this but it raises the question, why does the U.S. have a 25.2 higher rate of gun homicide than all the […]
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Letter to the editor: Entire state of Maine failed Marissa Kennedy
Re: “Slain child endured months of abuse”(Feb. 28, Page A1): The entire state of Maine failed little Marissa Kennedy. Where were the neighbors who said they heard fighting but never called police? How could they not have heard the poor child screaming for her life? When the Stockton Springs police responded to domestic abuse calls, […]