I have to admit that I wasn’t all that eager to snorkel in two feet of water, particularly while pushing aside thick swaths of eelgrass, but it is awfully hard to say no to an eight year-old with a new snorkel. As often is the case, it was an experience I would not have had […]
2019
Posted inTimes Record
Brunswick-based environmental organization gets boost from national award
BRUNSWICK — A youth-led environmental education organization based in Brunswick will be able to draw more young people who are “unlocking innovation” across the state, thanks to a $25,000 Underwriters Laboratories Innovative Education Award. The Maine Environmental Education Association’s Changemakers program is a statewide, youth-led initiative geared toward young people between the ages of 15 […]
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Letter: Collins must act on the high cost of prescription drugs
Millions of people are affected by the rising costs of prescription medication every day. It is wrong that hard working families have to choose between taking medication and being able to eat a meal. My aunt was born with chronic lung disease, and is a cancer survivor who has taken a great deal of prescription […]
Posted inSouthern Forecaster, The Forecaster
South Portland coffee shop: Not trying to be ‘rogue roasters’
The Planning Board approves the sale of beer and wine by Rwanda Bean, despite complaints from neighbors.
Posted inTimes Record
Man implicated in ’90s rapes found on Maine island, arrested
TAUNTON, Mass. — A man who fled the state years ago has been arrested in a remote town in Maine and charged in connection with a pair of unsolved rapes, authorities in Massachusetts said Wednesday. Sixty-one-year-old Ivan Keith, formerly of Bridgewater, Massachusetts, was taken into custody Aug. 2 in Tremont, Maine, on Mount Desert Island, […]
Posted inMaine, News, Uncategorized
Great Diamond Island residents may try to secede from Portland
Frustrated with the city’s treatment of the island, some collect signatures as a first step.
Posted inNation & World
NASA scientists fly over Greenland to probe melting ice
They are trying to figure out whether warmer water or warmer air is the bigger cause.
Posted inBusiness, Nation & World, News
U.S. retail sales rise strongly in sign of consumer optimism
Consumer spending appears healthy even as other sectors of the economy, such as business investment, have weakened amid growing uncertainty over the U.S.-China trade conflict.
Posted inTimes Record
Health insurers Harvard Pilgrim, Tufts agree to merge
BOSTON — Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and Tufts Health Plan, two of the region’s largest insurers, announced Wednesday they had reached a definitive agreement to form a single company that would serve nearly 2.4 million subscribers in New England. In a joint statement, the insurers said the merger would create one of the largest nonprofit […]
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Docs: Robert Indiana had $13M in bank as house crumbled
ROCKLAND — Pop artist Robert Indiana had $13 million in the bank even as his house sank into disrepair before his death, with pigeons living in the roof, water damaging books, rotting wood and the stench of cat urine, according to court documents filed Wednesday. Documents filed by Indiana’s estate allege that aide Jamie Thomas was […]