Snowfall totals were higher than expected, and many Mainers found themselves shoveling a path into 2020.
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Posted inTimes Record, Times Record Sports
Hasson’s historic night leads Bowdoin over Chapman
Senior Maddie Hasson scored a career-high 37 points and became the 18th player in program history to surpass the 1,000-point plateau in the Polar Bears’ 93-81 win on Monday night.
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Posted inTimes Record
Durham accepting nominations for select board, budget committee, RSU 5 board
Nomination papers are available at the Durham town office. Candidates must collect between 25 and 100 signatures of registered Durham voters and return them to the town clerk’s office by 4:30 p.m. Feb. 3.
Posted inAmerican Journal
Buxton church meth cleanup underway
Work to decontaminate Buxton United Methodist Church after a suspected methamphetamine lab was found there is expected to be completed in a few weeks.
Posted inAmerican Journal, Forecaster Opinion, Lakes Region Weekly
The Universal Notebook: These are the good old days
Back in the good old days – by which I mean the innocent years of the 1950s and early 1960s before I graduated from high school and America went to hell – things were substantially different than they are today, by which I mean simpler. Also dumber. Dumber? People smoked in restaurants and airplanes, even […]
Posted inAmerican Journal, Forecaster Opinion, Lakes Region Weekly
Here’s Something: Magic 8-Ball predictions for 2020
One of the best annual traditions we had at Current Publishing (which was bought by The Forecaster in 2015), was consulting the Magic 8-Ball around Jan. 1 to seek clues as to how current events would trend in the new year. Reporters and editors at Current Publishing’s family of weekly community newspapers would come up […]
Posted inLetters
Letter to the Editor: Collins ignores her two-term pledge
Sen. Susan Collins just announced she is running for her fifth term. When she first ran, 23 years ago, she told the citizens of Maine that if elected, she would serve only two terms, as 12 years was enough for one person. Many years ago, I corresponded with the senator multiple times, requesting help on […]
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Letter to the Editor: ‘Partisan’ impeachment reveals what parties stand for
It is difficult to discern truth/reality when words are loosed from their meaning and thus serve to distort the situation itself. The impeachment vote is largely described, on Dec. 19, as being along “partisan lines.” This unfortunate description is not limited to impeachment but to most of the political activity in Washington today. Partisanship, by […]
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Letter to the Editor: Education grant not ethically invested
As a bleary-eyed new father and state employee, in 2011 I accepted the $500 Alfond college education grant for my daughter. I had no choice on how it was invested and came to find out recently it is all invested with BlackRock, considered the largest driver of climate change through its investments in oil, gas, […]
Posted inMaine Voices, Op-eds, Opinion
Maine Voices: Post-Madrid hopes overshadowed by big polluters’ failure to make real progress
This month’s COP 25 summit left much work for nations, organizations, churches and individuals to get the world to net zero by 2050.