Quarter 1 FRESHMEN HIGH HONORS: Sasha Altschule, Max Andrews, Emilie Barter, Ella Beals, Kendell Beckett, James Bertus-Trudo, Mason Binette, Addison Carbone, Quinn Chapman, Finneas Coldreck, Olivia Cutone, Anthony D’Elia, Gabrielle D’Orso-Palmer, Isabella Donnery, Emily Dube, Philip Dyer, William Eagleson, Jacob Eon, Isabel Esch, Kelsey Ewing, Otto Fontaine, Anna Fox, Taylor Giles, Quinlen Gleason, Berk Glidden, […]
December 2021
Posted inLetters
Letter to the editor: Rejection of Maine power line leaves energy future unclear
We Mainers may believe we achieved something useful in the Nov. 2 election, but I, for one, have trouble seeing what that is. Our neighbors in New England were willing to pay for access to clean electricity generated in Quebec and delivered to Lewiston that Mainers would probably, with some negotiating, have access to as […]
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Posted inLetters
Letter to the editor: Give Portland’s Greyhound a voice
Before the wall with the mural of the sprinting dog is taken down, it could be used to convey an urgent message.
Posted inToy Fund
After pandemic shuts down family business, grandmother turns to toy fund for help
The grandparents are trying to care for four grandchildren on one salary this year.
Posted inTimes Record Opinion
Commentary: What the public doesn’t get: Anti-CRT lawmakers are passing pro-CRT laws
Since the final months of the Trump administration, the Republican Party has waged a sustained assault on critical race theory. Otherwise known as “CRT,” this academic framework offers tools to illuminate the relationship among race, racism and the law. Through calculated caricature and distortion, right-wing think tanks and media have weaponized CRT to manufacture a […]
Posted inKennebunk Post, Southern Maine Weeklies
After verbal clash, select board chair vows ‘to try and do better’
John Costin filed a complaint following an alleged breach of the Kennebunk Select Board code of conduct by Blake Baldwin.
Posted inLetters
Letter to the editor: Let’s mark World AIDS Day by ending HIV
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a devastating impact across the globe, with millions of lives and livelihoods lost, unlike anything we have experienced in decades. The last time the entire world was this focused on a pandemic threat was over two decades ago, when HIV/AIDS was killing almost 4,000 people every day and new infections […]
Posted inLetters
Letter to the editor: ‘Fully vaccinated’ falls short as COVID protection metric
In the fight to defeat COVID-19, we need to redefine the term “fully vaccinated.” It has been commonly used to denote the number of people or the percentage of the population who have received at least two doses of the mRNA vaccines or the one shot of Johnson & Johnson. But it is quickly becoming […]
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: Some of our state’s most serious crimes go unreported
The rate of offenses continues to fall in Maine, but that figure doesn’t say it all.
Posted inThe Forecaster
School Notebook: Dec. 1
King Middle School students unveil environmental project King Middle School students and teachers joined leaders from Portland Parks and Maine Audubon to unveil a new interpretive sign about a collaborative, environmental stewardship project in Deering Oaks Park in Portland Nov. 17. The school and several partners adopted an area in Deering Oaks in 2019 to […]