I am writing to endorse Jim Chaousis for Falmouth Town Council. I live in Boothbay Harbor and split time in North Yarmouth. I have known Jim for eight years. I worked at, owned and operated Wiscasset Ford for over 25 years and understand business. When I met Jim, I was advocating for business interests in […]

Last week, folks in Scarborough resoundingly voted to send three School Board members packing in a recall election that was nominally about their competence, but actually about their support for the superintendent of schools in a policy dispute with the high school principal. Students, faculty and voters all lined up behind the principal. The recalled […]

The term “A Modest Proposal” has had a negative connotation ever since Jonathan Swift used that title for his 1729 essay on dealing with poverty in Ireland. Swift suggested poor parents sell their babies to the rich as food. Swift was engaged in satire, but you know how touchy people are about cannibalism. You so […]

The front-page photo in the May 6 Maine Sunday Telegram deserves an award. Captured by staff photographer Ben McCanna, the image showed a woman picking up litter beside a homeless man sleeping on the sidewalk near the Preble Street Resource Center. The man had one arm extended on the sidewalk and one leg dangling off […]

Another name for May could be “Appreciation Month,” because it’s an opportunity to recognize and thank many of our school employees. During May, we celebrate National Teacher Day and National Teacher Appreciation Week, as well as National School Nurses Day, School Nutrition Employee Appreciation Week and School Lunch Hero Day. Here at the Portland Public […]