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LETTER

Proficiency-based Learning Will Better Prepare Maine’s Youth Given the recent guest column published in The Times Record on proficiency-based learning (“Proficiency-based Education is Failing Maine Students,” The Maine Wire, March 8), I would like to add my perspectives on this. I’m a firm supporter of this newer learning model. That support stems from my experiences […]

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Maine Students Flex Their Political Power in the Streets and Classroom

Fearlessly raising their voices about issues both national and local, Maine students are leading a youth-organizing renaissance that could be planting the seeds for a new generation of grassroots activism in our state. This weekend’s massive, statewide March for Our Lives events that drew thousands to the streets in over a dozen simultaneous events heavily […]

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Fake Storm

So now it’s collusion with Stormy Daniels? The obsession by some in the media with the affair that Donald Trump allegedly had with a porn star 12 years ago shows how desperate his haters are to drive him from office. For the anti-Trump forces in the media, Stormy has become the Joan of Arc that […]

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Know Your Rights

When Morse High School senior Eli Goodrich addressed more than 1,000 people on the Brunswick Mall Saturday as part of the March for Our Lives event, he acknowledged the backlash against the movement had taken a dark turn. “Grown adults, the same people who said that we could be what we wanted to be and […]

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Dear Abby

DEAR ABBY: I am an only child who has lived at home all her life — 44 years. My father recently passed away, so now it is just Mom and me. She has become extremely clingy. She is jealous of my friends and feels I must be with her for almost everything. What can I […]

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Mary Rideout

Mary Rideout passed away on March 17, 2018. She is survived by her husband of 50 years Richard Rideout; 3 children Brad, Joyce, Patricia; 5 grandchildren Liza, Jeffery, Tim, Michael, Shelby; 2 great grandchildren Kaylee, Landon; 2 son in- laws Adam, Tim and 1 great son in-law Chris. There will be a Celebration Of Life […]

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Jane Ellen McKay

Portland — Jane Ellen McKay died on March 19, 2018, after an ongoing battle with alcoholism and Type 1 diabetes. Jane was born in Houlton, Maine on September 15, 1959, to the late Joseph H. and Pauline G. McKay. When granted reprieve from picking potatoes, she attended public schools in Houlton before graduating from Hebron […]