Among individuals, as among nations, peace is the respect of others’ rights. — Benito Juarez, Mexican statesman (born this date in 1806, died 1872)
2018
Location, Location, Location
Every town and city has an obligation to make sure that her residents have the opportunity to succeed. That is why we spend money on schools and education. It is why we have fire departments and police departments. It is why we promote entrepreneurship. It is why we have shelters. Some people, for whatever reason, […]
Susan Collins’s Ever-So Pleasant World
I wish I lived in Susan Collins’s world. It’s much more pleasant than mine. I wake up to a daily worsening constitutional crisis: a president showing contempt for the rule of law. I wake up to a Republican Party whose leadership shows no interest in reining in this out-of-control president. I wake up to a […]
Robert T. Paul
BATH — Rev. Dr. Robert T. Paul, of Bath, went to be with the Lord on Sunday, March 18, 2018. Reverend Paul was born in Highlands, NC on October 3, 1934 to Frank and Hazel Paul. The second of five children, Bob always looked out for his siblings. The family eventually moved to Caribou, Maine, […]
Milton W. Yeaton Sr.
PHIPPSBURG — Milton Wesley Yeaton Sr. of Phippsburg passed away peacefully at Maine Medical Center March 18, 2018 at the age of 65. He was the son of the late Herbert Yeaton Sr. and Abbie Aileen Yeaton and was raised in the Nazarene faith. Milton’s childhood was an idyllic one of playing with cousins and […]
Spring nor’easter targets Northeast with heavy snow
PHILADELPHIA A spring nor’easter targeted the Northeast today with strong winds and a foot or more of snow expected in some parts of the region. Airlines canceled flights and schools canceled classes ahead of the fourth major storm in three weeks. “It’s ridiculous,” Bob Burkhard of Toms River, New Jersey, said on Tuesday near the […]
Evacuees exit Calif. towns ahead of storm
LOS ANGELES When sheriff ’s deputies told Kristine Sperling and her family they should evacuate their Southern California home because of an approaching storm in January, they didn’t listen. Sperling thought she, her husband and their 11-year-old daughter would be perfectly safe. But the storm unleashed mudslides that inundated hundreds of homes in their community […]
Mary J. Waddle
Mary Joan (Duffy) Waddle, beloved spouse of Robert E. Waddle and adored mother of four, died peacefully March 19, 2018 at the age of 87. Married in 1949, Joan moved with her husband to Minnesott Beach, North Carolina. Following Bob’s service in the United States Marine Corps, the couple settled permanently in Harpswell, where her […]
Catherine H. Field
BRUNSWICK — Catherine H. Field, age 79, of N. Anson, formerly of Brunswick, passed away on Friday, February 23, 2018 at Maine Medical Center in Portland. Catherine was born in Lewiston on October 5, 1938, the daughter of Charles and Dorothy (Otis) Berry, Sr. She worked in local shoe manufacturing and paper mills. She had […]