We are outraged at the placement of your Jan. 3 story about Gov. Mills’ official inauguration. The swearing-in of a new governor warrants top billing anyway, but when it’s the swearing-in of our state’s first female governor, it’s history in the making! Instead of placing it as your headline story, you relegated Janet Mills’ history-making—and […]
2019
Posted inTimes Record, Times Record Opinion
Guest column: Globalization and Maine’s rural communities
At 18, I left the Central Maine tannery town where I grew up seeking education and opportunity. Already, back in the late 1960s, the town’s economy and its peoples’ welfare were far secondary to the tannery’s profits. Boxcars of Argentine and Australian cowhides displaced hides from America’s western states. Soon trailer trucks replaced freight trains […]
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Durham nomination papers available
DURHAM — Nomination papers for candidates for three boards became available Thursday, Jan. 10, and are due back next month. There are two openings on the Board of Selectmen, for seats occupied by Selectmen Mark Blake and Bob Pontau; three on the Budget Committee, for the seats of Jill Gastonguay, Marc Farrin and Richard Eammons […]
Posted inForecaster Opinion, The Forecaster
The Universal Notebook: Farewell to failure
The older you get the more fleeting the present. It’s frightening how fast eight years of Paul LePage went by. It doesn’t seem that long ago that I joined hundreds of others in Augusta to protest one of LePage’s first boneheaded moves: ordering the removal in 2011 of the mural in the Maine Labor Department […]
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Politics & Other Mistakes: Going under
Everyone wants to live by the water. They look forward to finding a flooded river flowing through their living room. They like the idea that the lake is slowly turning their front yard into a swamp. And they can’t wait for the day when the ocean’s rising tide will officially claim their property as part […]
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Here's Something: Who is the real 'Gov. Janet?'
It’s been eight years since Maine had a new governor, and we’ve only had two in the last 16 years: Paul LePage and John Baldacci. New governors don’t come around very often, so it’s fitting to note their arrival. This was done with a fair amount of pomp and circumstance at last week’s inauguration of […]
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Ginsburg missing Supreme Court arguments for 1st time
The justice who had surgery for cancer is working from home.
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Mainewhile: You've got to have friends
I like Brunswick, and I am glad I moved here. It’s a pretty town, great schools, good walking trails, funky little theatre, and more restaurants than a person needs. It’s a nice life. There’s just one major missing piece: friends. I don’t mean to imply that people here are not friendly. They are. Very. At […]
Posted inTimes Record, Times Record Sports
Polar Bear Weekend: Simonds ignites Bowdoin to men’s basketball win
BRUNSWICK — Bowdoin College’s Jack Simonds matched his career-high with 35 points to lead the Polar Bear men’s basketball team to a 99-70 win over Bates on Friday night at Morrell Gymnasium. The Polar Bears completed a season sweep of the Bobcats with the win in their conference opener. Bowdoin also defeated Bates (2-10, 0-1) in […]
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Hockey Rivals Meet: Yarmouth/Freeport shuts out Dragons, 7-0, in girls hockey
BRUNSWICK — The Yarmouth/Freeport girls high school hockey team received goals from six different scorers en route to a 7-0 victory over Brunswick Saturday night at Sidney J. Watson Arena. Sophomore Emma Moll had a pair of goals and an assist, while sophomore Lilly Weinrich and Sophia Newberg chipped in with a goal and two assists […]