During my studies, I designed a prototype high school for rural students whose strengths and needs are not supported by traditional school settings.
2025
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Maine DoE won’t solve problem of phones in class | Douglas Rooks
Individual school districts are better placed to take on the omnipresent phone.
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Posted inLetters
Medicaid cuts will hurt lung cancer patients | Letter
Worry about coverage and access to treatment should not add to an already heavy burden.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Life & Culture
The D.C. plane crash took her mom and sister. She turned to her piano.
Olesya Taylor and her daughter Olivia, 12, both died in the January crash over Reagan National Airport. Anne Valerie Ter, 14, poured her grief into preparations for a piano concerto competition the following month.
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At the Portland Boxing Club, Skip Neales leaves lasting legacy
Fighters and friends remember the lessons taught by the longtime Portland trainer, who died this month at 86.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books, Life & Culture
In his new book of essays, Richard Russo has a lot on his mind
As its title, ‘Life and Art’ suggests, and with humor and intelligence, the essays span culture, personal history, politics and family.
Posted inLetters
Pope Leo unlikely to elevate women to priesthood | Letter
In recent decades, Popes Paul VI and John Paul II both promulgated solemn decrees reaffirming the church’s age old, unbroken teaching that women cannot be ordained to the priesthood. In “Ordinatio Sacerdotalis,” the most recent decree (John Paul II, 1994), it was stated inflexibly that the church “has no authority whatsoever” to do so, and […]
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Maine deserves younger candidates for office | Letter
Don’t get me wrong. I absolutely love Gov. Janet Mills. I would put a statue of her up in Monument Square. But as an 80-year-old myself, I can say that she is too old to run for office. Please don’t bring up Bernie Sanders, who can stand for elder exceptionalism all by himself. Let’s get […]
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‘The Doorman’ and ‘The Let Them Theory’ top bestseller lists in Southern Maine
Here are the week’s top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Nonesuch Books & More in South Portland.
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Republicans must not downplay ‘big, beautiful’ bill | Letter
If it’s a Republican policy goal to hand a tax break of $4.9 trillion over the next 10 years to businesses and wealthy Americans, as stated in their “big, beautiful bill,” they should make that clear in broad daylight, rather than in a 1 a.m. vote. If it’s a Republican policy goal to fund that […]