Save Wiscasset’s Stores and Downtown A “Pretty Little Village” that you can’t access is a topic of conversation I have often heard among my neighbors in Wiscasset. As several of my neighbors have gotten older they realize that they no longer can walk into town on the slippery brick sidewalks and crumbling stairs leading into […]
2018
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Can Climate Denial Be Overcome?
This past Feb. 24, just 440 miles shy of the North Pole, the world’s northernmost weather station recorded a temperature of 43 degrees Fahrenheit. That’s 11 degrees above freezing in the middle of what’s normally the coldest period of the Arctic winter, when the sun’s rays are totally absent, 24-7. I took particular note of […]
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Judith A. Mallett
TOPSHAM — Judith Ann Mallett died suddenly but peacefully at home in Topsham on Sunday, March 18, 2018. She was born in Pontiac, Illinois on May 2, 1948, the youngest of four children to Mildred and Frank Russell. She graduated from Judson College with a degree of Bachelor of Arts with high distinction. Judy expressed […]
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DEATH NOTICE
TOPSHAM — Gregory Edward Ouellette, 78, died on Tuesday, March 20, 2018, in Topsham. There will be no public services. Arrangements are by Daigle Funeral Home, 819 High St., Bath.
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In Tennessee, music is being made deep below Earth’s surface
MCMINNVILLE, Tenn. By the time Nashville songwriter Travis Meadows took the stage on a recent Sunday afternoon, more than 500 music fans had found their way 333 feet below the ground, some taller guests ducking their heads just a bit. They took their seats in lounge chairs and on a handful of rock outcroppings beneath […]
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TV personality known for playing Bozo the Clown dies
BOSTON Longtime Boston television personality and entertainer Frank Avruch, who was the star of the popular children’s TV program “Bozo the Clown,” has died. He was 89. Avruch died Tuesday at his Boston home from heart disease, his family said in a statement to WCVB-TV . Avruch played Bozo the Clown from 1959 to 1970, […]
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With fate of economy in his hands, Powell plays it low key
In his first news conference as head of the world’s leading central bank, Jerome Powell avoided any professorial lectures. His replies were briefer than his predecessors’. He said nothing of himself personally. He projected the air of an experienced technocrat, more steeped in finance than the complexities of economic theory. If anyone was wondering how […]
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Congressional leaders finalize U.S. budget bill
WASHINGTON Congressional leaders have finalized a sweeping $1.3 trillion budget bill that substantially boosts military and domestic spending but leaves behind young immigrant “Dreamers,” deprives President Donald Trump some of his border wall money and takes only incremental steps to address gun violence. As negotiators stumbled toward an end-of-the-week deadline to fund the government or […]
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White House issues threat over leaked Trump briefing papers
WASHINGTON The tempest over President Donald Trump’s congratulatory phone call to Vladimir Putin quickly grew into an uproar over White House leaks, sparking an internal investigation and speculation over who might be the next person Trump forces out of the West Wing. The White House, which has suffered frequent leaks — at times of notable […]