The Brunswick Downtown Association Annual Meeting will be held virtually on Thursday, Jan. 28, via Zoom. The theme of the meeting is A Year Like No Other. Bowdoin College Chief Financial and Administrative Officer Matthew Orlando will introduce incoming BDA board members and reveal the election results of new board members, conducted by email prior to the […]
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Posted inAmerican Journal, Forecaster Opinion, Lakes Region Weekly
Mainewhile: The time that is given us
How are you doing? After the global dumpster fire that was 2020, it would have been kind of nice to get through the first month of the new year without an uptick in pandemic deaths, a full-out assault upon our democracy and a crashing economy to say nothing of the weather disasters in the nation. […]
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Posted inTimes Record Opinion
Letters: Reflections on 4 years of strife; Nuclear treaty is wake-up call
Reflections on 4 years of strife Before the clock strikes 12:01 pm and I allow myself a sigh of relief, I want to pause for a moment of reflection. It has been 2,045 days since Trump announced his candidacy for President of the United States of America… how naive we all were then. Some may […]
Posted inTimes Record Opinion
John Micek: Impeachment isn’t about Trump crossing the Rubicon
When Donald Trump became only president in our tangled history to be impeached twice, Americans found themselves asking, “What now?” The better question is “What’s next?” It goes beyond the prospect of a trial in the Senate that now appears set to unfold in the opening days of the new Biden administration, despite arguments over […]
Posted inTimes Record
The Recycle Bin: The basics of household recycling and plastics processing
The Recycle Bin is a weekly column on what to recycle, what not to recycle and why, in Brunswick. 1. Recycling is for household Items. Those are things that generally enter our home through places like the kitchen, the bathroom or the laundry. They do not include items for the yard, the cellar, or the […]
Posted inForecaster Opinion
Superintendent’s Notebook: Custodians among front-line heroes of pandemic
At the Portland Public Schools, we’ve always been grateful to our custodians for making sure the buildings we walk into each morning are clean and safe. Now, however, we are even more aware of how important their work is to safeguard the health of our students and staff. COVID-19 has made us value these essential […]
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Letter to the editor: To move forward, we must bury the hatchet
How about we bury the hatchet – not in one another but deep in the ground? President Trump won’t resign; the Senate won’t impeach; Vice President Mike Pence won’t invoke the 25th Amendment; congressional investigations will work for neither the right nor the left; Trump lawsuits alleging fraud won’t succeed, and federal or state criminal […]