SACO – The Maine Public Relations Council recently presented Jean Saunders with the Midge Vreeland Public Service Award at the 2018 MPRC Awards Ceremony and Holiday Social in Portland. The annual award is given to an individual or organization whose efforts help the greater good and embody the core principles that were held by the late Midge […]
2019
Posted inJournal Tribune
Chiefs’ Mahomes ready for postseason debut against Colts
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas City Chiefs didn’t draft Patrick Mahomes merely to make the playoffs. Matt Cassel accomplished that, and quarterbacks Steve Bono, Elvis Grbac, Trent Green and Alex Smith went one better by making it to the divisional round. Smith even won a wild-card game, the first playoff victory by the long-suffering […]
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Women stand out among Mills’ Cabinet picks
AUGUSTA — Gov. Janet Mills is assembling a Cabinet likely to include more women than any of her predecessors and has won bipartisan praise, so far, for the qualifications of nominees to lead state agencies. Within days of her victory in November, Mills began putting together a team – and eventually a search committee – to […]
Posted inTimes Record, Times Record Obituaries
George Willis Browning
Georgetown – George Willis Browning died on Thursday, January 3, 2019 at Gosnell Memorial House in Scarborough, Maine after suffering from pancreatitis. He was born in Lewes, Delaware on October 4, 1941. George was the son of Francis Henry Hill Browning and Nancy Boxley Browning of Orange, Virginia. George was graduated from Northeastern University in 1965 and served in the United States Marine Corps during the Vietnam War. After his service, he […]
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Portland school board set to vote on $12 million Lyseth renovation plan
If approved, construction will start this spring on the first of four elementary schools designated for refurbishment under a $60 million bond approved by city voters.
Posted inLetters
Letter to the editor: Maine missing out on remote worker potential to improve economy
Mike Turcotte’s Dec. 3 Maine Voices column in the Press Herald makes a critical point that I will expand on: the potential of remote workers to develop Maine’s economy. A couple of years ago, at a Bangor rural economic-development conference organized by Alan Caron, I presented data on the economic impact of remote workers. The […]
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Letter to the editor: LePage raises question with different decisions in similar pardon cases
He granted one for a white Maine businessman with an old drug-trafficking conviction but denied one for a Haitian immigrant businessman with an old drug-trafficking conviction.
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Letter to the editor: A simple pickup basketball game offers life, leadership training
I was standing in a field covered in snow, next to my son’s elementary school, watching from a distance. I was spying on a group of fifth- and sixth-grade boys playing basketball on the blacktop behind the school. No adults were present, and I made sure to stay out of plain sight. It was freezing […]
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