Ages 9 and over of all dance experience levels are invited to audition Feb. 4 at 9:30 a.m.
2023
New Hampshire man arrested in Berwick slaying
Daniel Lefrenier, 31, is charged with murder in the death of Mark Forest, who was found with a gunshot wound to the head Thursday morning in Berwick.
Blast From the Past Too diner is now closed
The popular 50s-themed diner closed on Dec. 18.
David Treadwell: Bingeing on Charles Dickens
When my mother was a teenager in Exeter, New Hampshire, she’d sometimes respond to a potential suitor’s request for a date with the line, “No thank you, I’d rather stay home and read Dickens.” When I was a ninth grader in Parkersburg, West Virginia, my English teacher Ms. Pettigrew seemed taken right out of a […]
Giving Voice: The spirit of Brunswick
I was born in Brunswick, went through the town’s public school system, attended Bowdoin College, and am now raising my three children here. I love this town. Growing up, neighborhood friends of my parents acted and felt like aunts and uncles. My classmates’ moms and dads would bring over lasagna dinners if someone in the […]
Daniel Kany: Brunswick’s ‘Many Stitches’ mural is more harm than charm
I was alarmed and extraordinarily disappointed to have learned about the large-scale mural that is slated to go up on Fort Andross in Brunswick. I certainly have nothing against murals. We have great ones in Maine. The South Solon Meeting House is a high point of American fresco. The Portland Museum of Art and the […]
Inside New Gloucester: Jan. 13
How climate resilient is New Gloucester? To answer this question, the town is reviewing its current readiness and hosting a public workshop on Thursday, Jan. 19. The goals of the event are to raise awareness of the impact of climate change in the region, to engage the community in a conversation about our specific climate […]
Maine Voices: Where Portland’s workforce housing falls far short
Eligibility rules mean that anybody who needs a leg up to buy their own home cannot avail themselves of the ‘decent, safe and affordable housing’ our city ‘works to ensure.’
On the Market: Post and beam beauties under $500,000
Real estate listings from around Maine.
Letter to the editor: Disruptive ideology caused deaths of millions
A political ideology that was derived from many previous sources, including systematic racism, but that did not emerge as a coherent, operational and dangerous belief system until the 20th century begins with a mythic narrative. The narrative has many variations but goes something like this: There is within a country an authentic core nation that […]