2018
Dear Abby
DEAR ABBY: This is the 37th anniversary of when I met and fell in love with a beautiful young woman in Iowa. We were together less than a year before she decided to pursue her dreams in California. When she left, it broke my heart for years. To this day I still feel the loss. […]
Book event planned for new collection of Elaine Ford stories
BRUNSWICK The latest work from award-winning author Elaine Ford will get its due at an upcoming book launch event. The new collection of 15 stories by Ford, who passed away last year, is titled “This Time Might Be Different: Stories of Maine.” There will be brief readings from the book at the Sunday, March 25, […]
LL Bean: No bonus after tough year, more jobs to be cut
FREEPORT L.L. Bean’s sales dipped slightly over the past year, forcing the elimination of worker bonuses for the first time since 2008, but the CEO told workers on Friday that changes adopted in recent months are putting the company on a “path to a more prosperous future.” The Maine-based outdoors retailer announced annual revenue of […]
TA chess champions rule at state tourney
Three Thornton Academy students placed first in the reserve section of the recent State of Maine Scholastic Chess Tournament. Thornton seniors Jan Schilling, Ky Nguyen, and Junior Leo Xie competed against teams from all over Maine in individual chess matches to take home the gold. Additionally, Schilling was the top individual performer in the competition. […]
The American Empire and its Media
Recently I wrote that under seemingly worthy goals of stopping the spread of socialism, then drugs, then terrorism we seemingly invited ourselves into every world conflict. Were globalists covertly using these causes instead to build an American Empire? As a college professor teaching current events for 40 plus years, I had to come to this […]
US says Russia hacks energy grid, critical infrastructure
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration accused Russia on Thursday of a concerted operation to hack the U.S. energy grid and other critical infrastructure including aviation, and separately imposed sanctions on a raft of Russian officials for alleged high-tech interference in the 2016 American presidential election. The moves were the strongest to date against Russia by […]