After this week’s ice storm, skaters were excited to get out and enjoy the sunshine.
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Posted inTimes Record Opinion
Guest column: Maine lobstermen are not to blame for right whale deaths
In today’s world, it is hard to discern truth from opinion, or fact from calculated lies. We rely on the press helping us navigate this. The fact is that in 2020 a very encouraging uptick in right whale births was observed with at least 14 newborns reported. The fact is also that no documented right […]
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Posted inBiddeford-Saco-OOB Courier, Scarborough Leader, Southern Maine Weeklies
240 Strings to livestream concert
240 Strings will hold its 4th livestream of the season. Tracey Jasas-Hardel, of the Portland Piano Trio, will play some solo violin music by two cutting-edge composers on Feb. 26 at 7 p.m. About the program, Jasas-Hardel said, “The pandemic gave us so much extra time to think and explore. Sourdough baking and knitting were […]
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: Lessons learned from fighting COVID can help combat Maine’s overdose epidemic
One lesson is understanding that government can’t do it all. There has to be a communitywide commitment to understanding the disease.
Posted inTimes Record Opinion
David Treadwell: Brown’s coaching fellow Ashton Grant’s passion for football fulfilled
I first met Ashton Grant when he was about one year old. His grandparents, our dear friends Surrey and Hugh Hardcastle, had brought him over to our house. Although Ashton had barely learned to walk, he came rushing, almost running, into the room with a big smile, oozing an “I’m-here-now-the-party-can-begin” kind of charm. Tina and […]
Posted inScarborough Leader, Southern Maine Weeklies
Haddock chowder lunch takes place March 6
SCARBOROUGH — A “Drive–up and Take Home” Chowder Lunch will take place on Saturday, March 6 at Blue Point Congregational Church, 236 Pine Point Road, Scarborough. Pick up between 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. Enjoy a bowl of our Christmas Fair Haddock Chowder along with cornbread and a dessert of either a brownie or snickerdoodle […]
Posted inLetters
Letter to the editor: Republican Party under Trump should be renamed
“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.” Now the votes have been counted and 43 Republicans chose to stand by their man, even though he deliberately unleashed a violent mob on them and then refused to call that mob off, we have a clearer […]
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Letter to the editor: Portland Museum of Art displays need for union
It’s telling that a museum employee would leave for a job in a coffee shop in order to get benefits.
Posted inTimes Record Opinion
Jonathan Crimmins: Thanking Rush Limbaugh
My charge, when I started writing this column many years ago, was to keep it about the local area. Today I must deviate from that because I want to say thanks. As a youngster here on the mean streets of Brunswick I had four major influences to my way of thinking. Four people who taught […]
Posted inScarborough Leader, Southern Maine Weeklies
Heartwarming ‘Meals to Go Program’ serves Scarborough seniors
On a bitter cold Tuesday morning earlier this month, a line of cars pulls into the new Scarborough Community Services hub at 418 Payne Road. Despite the snow, there is a tent set up in front of the building — currently the site of the town’s all-day hybrid care school program — covering tables lined […]