PROMOTIONS Lex Meagher has been promoted to executive vice president of Kennebunk Savings. Meagher previously served as senior commercial credit officer. He joined the bank in 2011 after receiving his law degree from the University of New Hampshire School of Law and clerking for the Maine Superior Court and Supreme Court. Betsy Libby has been […]
2021
Posted inLetters
Letter to the editor: Blue Angels should not return to Maine
I’m not eloquent, so I ask that you Google journalist Christopher D. Cook’s 2019 essay “The Problem With the Blue Angels” to see the several reasons that they should never return to Maine. They waste huge amounts of fossil fuels, waste our taxes, pollute the atmosphere, endanger the public and celebrate death. My wife and […]
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Letter to the editor: Time to recognize Blue Angels’ negative impact
The intensifying climate crisis means it’s time to limit military carbon emissions to those needed for our nation’s defense.
Posted inMeetinghouse, Opinion
Karen Hand Ogg, Windham: On mental map, old world still lives
Hometown was the central character in the theatrical version of my father’s life. At 74 he took his life, directly because of an untreated mental illness, but indirectly as the result of never having been able to stay rooted to a hometown of his own. It is a complicated story, parts of which I learned […]
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Letter to the editor: Anti-mask Maine parents should waive right to sue schools
To the parents who don’t want their child to wear a mask in school: Have the school give you a waiver form to sign saying that you will not hold the school administration, teachers, etc., responsible if your child gets sick from COVID or any of the variants. It’s time to put this issue to […]
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Letter to the editor: For future generations’ sake, rein in federal COVID spending
Unlike the Bible’s manna from heaven, the $6 trillion to $9 trillion federal COVID-19 relief spending must be paid back, and until it is, if ever, we and our grandchildren’s grandchildren will be paying interest on it and their dollar will be devalued. It is important to appreciate that “trillion” is an astronomical number. If […]
Posted inTimes Record Opinion
The Maine Idea: A man for all seasons at Central Maine Power
I met David Flanagan in 1994 when he was conducting his first rescue mission for Central Maine Power. The electric company was in a funk: highly unpopular with the Legislature and a substantial portion of its customers, and hence the public. For CMP is practically co-existent with “public utility” in most Mainers’ minds. It really […]
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‘They didn’t know me or what I would do for this country’
Yasin Ahmady, who had come to the United States from Afghanistan 20 years before 9/11, is one of many Muslim Americans who suffered verbal and physical attacks in the wake of the 2001 terrorist attacks.
Posted inBiddeford-Saco-OOB Courier, Southern Maine Weeklies
One small flower with a big story to tell
Nature speaks in shapes, textures and colors, and her messages are based on how all those are organized on the world’s great canvas. How often have I come upon a favorite pattern or particular brush stroke that I see repeated in totally new and unexpected places? It happened again recently when I was taking photos […]
Posted inTimes Record
Before GPS, lighthouses helped Maine’s mariners find their way
It is hard to believe that it is already September and that summer is coming to an end. But, in an effort to grab the last moments of warm weather and calm seas, I took a trip from Brunswick to Saco by boat to see an old friend. It was laughably easy to find our […]