When I was young, I realized that I had a lot of friends whose parents were from Maine. And most of the time, their grandparents and great-grandparents had also been born and raised in Maine. My family was not like this. Both of my parents had moved to Maine for work and for its beauty. […]
2019
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Saco food distributor files for bankruptcy
A Saco frozen food distributor plans to reorganize under bankruptcy protection following a dispute with a major supplier. Sure Winner Foods, which has operated since 1979 and employs more than 250 people, filed a chapter 11 bankruptcy with U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Portland on Tuesday. The company reached an agreement with KeyBank to provide continued […]
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Lease challenge could threaten major new salmon farm on Maine coast
BELFAST — A Norwegian company that wants to build a large, land-based salmon farm on the coast has run into potential lease trouble, and opponents are hopeful it derails the project. Nordic Aquafarms plans to build the salmon farm in Belfast, where it would be capable of producing more than 60 million pounds of fish […]
Posted inLetters, Opinion
Letter to the editor: My son chose death with dignity
I am the parent of a son able to access and utilize the Death with Dignity (“DWD”) option as a resident of Washington State in 2011. I support DWD legislation for Maine. Our son, Ethan, contracted an aggressive form of cancer at age 41 that was untreatable and terminal. He was born and raised in […]
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Harold Pease: Focus now turns to alleged FBI/DoJ coup d’e’tat
The Robert Mueller Report has been released in full outside legally required redaction that would compromise sources and methods. It’s over. The Deep State and their media outlets temper tantrum against Attorney General Bill Barr because he feels the need to investigate the beginning of the Trump-Russia Collusion Hoax, now documented, will continue for a […]
Posted inTimes Record, Times Record Obituaries
Marla Eve Bragdon
BRUNSWICK – Marla Eve Bragdon, 66, passed away Tuesday, May 7, 2019 at her home in Brunswick, after a long courageous battle with cancer. Her family and close friends were by her side. Marla was born on Sept. 11, 1952 in Biddeford, to Stewart C. and Marjorie E. (Peck) Bragdon. In 1973 she graduated from […]
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Maine House passes bill requiring MaineCare to pay for abortions
AUGUSTA — House lawmakers gave initial approval Tuesday to a bill that would require Maine’s Medicaid program and private insurance companies to pay for abortion services. The 79-63 vote fell largely along party lines on a bill that would add Maine to the 15 states that allow taxpayer dollars to be used for abortions. Lawmakers […]
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Vaccine bill again splits Maine House and Senate over religious exemption
AUGUSTA — The debate over whether parents should be able to exempt their children from vaccinations because of religious beliefs is not over at the State House. On Tuesday, the House of Representatives, in a mostly party-line vote, insisted that its version of a bill removing philosophical and religious exemptions from the state’s school vaccination […]
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Our View: Hubris on display when Pompeo talks about climate
As the planet heats up, America’s representative at the Arctic Council claims a melting ice cap would be good for business.
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Seven Thousand Three Hundred Days
Editor, That’s how long it has been since our middle son, Angel Antonio Torres, known as Tony, was last seen alive. On May 21, 1999, Tony boarded a bus in Boston, Massachusetts, stepped off it in Biddeford, Maine, and hasn’t been seen since. This year marks 20 years since he disappeared without a trace. Our […]
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