Do you know what our county commission does? How about who our county commissioner is or what that person does for us on a regular basis? Sadly, I don’t think many can answer those questions easily. We don’t hear anything about what’s happening on the county level nor how we can participate in the decision-making […]
2021
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: Maine mourns 1,000 COVID deaths
The state remains one of the safest, but many of these losses could have been avoided.
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Posted inBiddeford-Saco-OOB Courier, Southern Maine Weeklies
Volk Packaging Corporation named one of 2021 Best Places to Work in Maine
BIDDEFORD — Volk Packaging Corporation was recently named as one of the 2021 Best Places to Work in Maine. The awards program was created in 2006 and is a project of the Society for Human Resource Management – Maine State Council (MESHRM) and Best Companies Group. Partners endorsing the program include: Mainebiz, the Maine State […]
Posted inMeetinghouse, Opinion
Amanda Russell, Edgecomb: What Round Pond has given me
My “hometown” is the midcoast fishing village of Round Pond. I grew up there. It is a big part of my deepest self because of what it has given me. And that is much. Growing up in Round Pond taught me how to work, both how to work hard and also how to love the […]
Posted inBiddeford-Saco-OOB Courier, Southern Maine Weeklies
Learn about native plants, help with buffer along Goosefare Brook
Like to know more about native plants? Want to help plant a native plant buffer along Goosefare Brook? York County Soil and Water Conservation District, the City of Saco, and the Biddeford-Saco Country Club are hosting a native plant workshop at the Country Club, 101 Old Orchard Road, Saco, from 8 a.m. to noon Saturday, […]
Posted inMeetinghouse, Opinion
Nancye Tuttle, Wells: ‘Bombing the Ridge’ a rite of passage in my hometown
Life was slow in my hometown of Glen Ridge, a sliver of a North Jersey suburban community. Just 3 miles long and three blocks wide, it was tucked between brawny Bloomfield to the south and moneyed Montclair, its neighbor to the north. I grew up there in the 1950s, a time when dads worked, moms […]
Posted inLetters
Letter to the editor: Nemitz, Cote present contradictory take on Question 1
Columnist Bill Nemitz and Adam Cote, attorney for the pro-Question 1 group Mainers for Local Power, are good Maine people. I admire them both and often agree with their views on Maine life. But their take on Question 1 – like Question 1, itself – is confused, confounding and confiscatory claptrap (“Bill Nemitz: Introducing Maine’s […]
Posted inTimes Record
Intertidal: More to see in Midcoast waters as we fall into autumn
This week we officially entered fall. It is always a somewhat bittersweet time when the freedom and warmth of summer gradually slips away just as more of the daylight slips into darkness. But, in this transition, there is a brief window when you can explore the darkness while the night air is still relatively warm […]
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Mobile food markets bring fresh produce where it is most needed
The Good Food Bus in Lewiston is wrapping up its sixth season selling healthy food at great prices right in people’s neighborhoods.
Posted inBusiness, People on the Move
Shawn Keeley named dean of institutional advancement at College of the Atlantic
NEW HIRES Shawn Keeley has been hired as dean of institutional advancement at College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor. Keeley, of Bar Harbor, brings a wealth of experience and skill to his new role. A 2000 alumni, he was previously the senior development officer at Friends of Acadia. Key Private Bank has hired Jason […]