Yarmouth and North Yarmouth have scheduled Halloween trunk-or-treat events for next week. Yarmouth Community Services will hold its Trunk-or-Treat Spook-tacular on Friday, Oct. 27, from 4 to 6 p.m. at Town Hall. The event, which also will include food and games, is free but limited to 250 children. To register or to host a trunk, […]
2023
Posted inNorthern Forecaster
June Town Council meeting date amendment on Cumberland ballot
Cumberland voters will decide Nov. 7 whether to allow the Town Council to change its first meeting date after a regular June election when necessary in observance of the Juneteenth holiday. Currently, the town charter mandates that the council meet on the first Monday after an election to swear in newly elected members. The charter […]
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Posted inNation & World
Electrical grids aren’t keeping up with the green energy push. That could risk climate goals.
There’s a long line of renewable projects waiting for the green light to connect to the grid.
Posted inNation & World
Israeli bombings in Gaza kill dozens as efforts persist to get aid to millions in besieged enclave
Israeli strikes have killed at least 2,778 people and wounded 9,700 others in Gaza, according to the Health Ministry. Nearly two-thirds of the dead were children.
Posted inAmerican Journal, Forecaster Opinion, Lakes Region Weekly, The Forecaster
Mainewhile: Creative use of old spaces can bring back sense of community
It is not exactly news that the recent global pandemic took a toll on our collective sense of community and belonging. Sociologists are busy constructing studies to calculate what, if any, impacts upon our social fabric can be attributed to the pandemic, but while we wait for the graphs and figures, I’ll just wander out […]
Posted inTimes Record Opinion
Dick Polman: The world’s on fire, but America is stuck with dysfunctional cult of saboteurs and liars
Last week the MAGA brats in the U.S. House ousted their Speaker and basically crashed the chamber because that’s what nihilists do, they seek and destroy. But now come the consequences. A major Middle East crisis has rocked the world, and, for the gang that can’t govern, play time is suddenly over. Michael McCaul, the […]
Posted inTimes Record Opinion
Carl Golden: No one’s buying Biden’s flip-flop on Trump’s wall
There exists an “acute and immediate need” for a border wall in the Rio Grande Valley – Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas, Oct. 4, 2023. “No”– President Biden when asked if a border wall was effective in halting illegal immigration, Oct. 5, 2023. Aside from widening the administration’s credibility gap, the circumstances surrounding the […]
Posted inKennebunk Post, Southern Maine Weeklies
Kennebunk firm is doing voter outreach to defeat the Pine Tree Power campaign
Digital Turf has taken in over $300,000 from Maine Affordable Energy since the beginning of 2022.
Posted inLetters
Letter to the editor: We can’t let school-age vaping get any worse
After reading an article in the Press Herald last month about the challenges schools face with vaping, my heart ached (“School districts grapple with vaping in high schools,” Sept. 12). As a mother of three, I’ve seen firsthand the allure of these flavored tobacco products. It’s heartbreaking to think that companies are using flavors to […]
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Letter to the editor: It is easy for politicians to support Israel
Nearly every U.S. elected official seems to toe the same line: support for Israel and silence on Palestinian deaths.