During my high school years (1943-1948), the standard curriculum called for all girls to take one semester of home economics and all boys to take a presumably equivalent semester of “shop.” There was the occasional girl who expressed a preference for shop, but I recall no interest in home economics among my male classmates. Times […]
2021
Posted inMaine, News
Maine Lives Lost: Donald Perreault, Marine Corps vet and welder who loved the outdoors
Perreault served in Vietnam and was exposed to Agent Orange, putting him at greater risk of complications from the coronavirus.
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Letter to the editor: Maine governor’s limit on worship attendance miscalculated
The updated capacity limit – 50 people or five per 1,000 square feet of space – is wrong on the law, the science and the math.
Posted inTimes Record
The Recycle Bin: How to avoid the ‘ick factor’ when recycling organic material
Some weeks ago, I talked here about the three-part program Brunswick has implemented for handing organic wastes. One of those is the large totes that Agri-Cycle has placed next to the leaf drop on Industry Road, which have seen an impressive amount of activity since they were installed. In recent weeks, that activity has dropped […]
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Maine
With move to Port City space, it’s game on for Arcadia National Bar
The bar and arcade hopes to reopen in the spring in the former concert venue, a larger space than its location on Preble Street in Portland.
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WELLS Library offers online programs, in-person tax aid The Wells Public Library will offer the following online programs this week: Children’s programs will include a Jaded YA Reads session at 10 a.m. Saturday. Tweens, teens, and adults can listen along as one of the librarians reads a young adult novel chapter by chapter. The week’s […]
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: Nation mourns 500,000 COVID deaths
Our worst disease outbreak in a century is still taking too many lives.
Posted inMaine Voices, Op-eds, Opinion
Maine Voices: Path to citizenship ensures that Dreamers – and Maine – fulfill our full potential
Those of us who came to America as children can’t risk buying a home or starting a business when the next president could deport us.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
CMP chairman: CMP is on the team for Maine’s renewable-energy future
We believe we can ensure the safe integration of solar projects and do so at a lower cost for the developers.
Posted inTimes Record Opinion
Guest column: Trumps assault on democracy is another contagion
We are living through a pandemic contagion of the COVID-19 virus that, in the innocence of January of last year, was still to reap its rampage of millions of sick people and hundreds of thousands of deaths. Around that time then-President Trump minimized the danger of the virus and then, flying in the face of […]