ARROWSIC Arrowsic officials are considering beefing up the town’s municipal government. With a population of about 400, the town has a small, parttime staff to match it. But increased demands from the state government on municipalities and the difficulty in finding staff have officials considering the creation of new positions to shoulder that load. There […]
2018
Bath homelessness forum continues
BATH — The Community Conversations on Homelessness continue with its third panel presentation and discussion on Wednesday, March 21, from 7-8:30 p.m. at The Neighborhood United Church of Christ. Three new panelists will talk about homelessness: Tedford Housing Executive Director Craig Phillips, Amistad staff liaison Mindy Harrison and survivor, leader and founder of Stop Trafficking […]
Reckoning Day for Gibson, Androscoggin GOP
Life comes at you fast sometimes. Just a week ago, erstwhile Sabattus Republican House candidate, Androscoggin County GOP treasurer, and longtime gadfly in central Maine political spaces Les Gibson was doing what he, along with the (now deleted, more on that later) Androscoggin County GOP Twitter handle in tandem have done best for years: Casually […]
The Mask Falls Away, This Is the Media Today
“Not every item of news should be published. Rather must those who control news policies endeavor to make every item of news serve a certain purpose.” — Attributed to Joseph Goebbels, and included in Saul Alinsky’s book, Rules for Radicals Using this quote from a reprehensible war criminal (re-quoted by an equally reprehensible American radical) […]
LETTERS
A Moral Matter The budget is a moral document in that how we spend public tax dollars clearly represents and reflects the kind of society we choose to be. Every dollar spent on corporate blackmail, based on greed not need, is a dollar does not going to healthcare, education, homelessness. Big corporations, the politicians that […]
Dear Abby
DEAR ABBY: I have been married 14 years and have two children. The first three years of marriage were great. We both cared for and respected each other. As our children grew older and our jobs have become more demanding, my husband has changed about how he views our sex life. After our third year […]