A recent attempt at a light-hearted piece on New Haven pizza, and how to access this unique food by flying with Avelo Airlines to Connecticut, chillingly normalizes something that is not normal (“Before booking a flight to New Haven, here are Mainers’ takes on apizza,” May 26). The writer acknowledges that some travelers are boycotting […]
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Posted inCops & Courts, Lewiston-Auburn, Maine, News
Illegal firearm purchases in Maine feeding gun trafficking across U.S.
In places like Lewiston, a sharp rise in gun violence begs the question: How many firearms are acquired by people lying about who the gun is for?
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Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Wabanaki nations still waiting on justice | Opinion
These communities are poorer, sicker and less empowered than they should be. Maine can change that.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Life & Culture, Review
South Portland’s Spring Point Ledge Light is a little world built for living
The lighthouse, dating to 1897, is a concrete and tidy illustration of the adage ‘form follows function.’
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Life & Culture
Imagination Ball gives Children’s Museum a financial and emotional boost
Having covered nonprofit fundraisers weekly for the past 13 years, I have seen hundreds of auctions where ordinary people raise their hands — and their bid numbers — to protect the organizations and initiatives that matter to them. Never is that impulse stronger than when they feel that something they love, like the Children’s Museum […]
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books, Life & Culture
‘Circular Motion,’ a debut both wildly imaginative and deeply emotional
Alex Foster’s first novel is about a futuristic high-speed travel system with troubling global consequences.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Life & Culture
Action-packed ‘Fountain of Youth’ has everything — except a soul
An Apple Original starring John Krasinski and Natalie Portman plays like ‘Romancing the National Da Vinci Treasure Ark.’
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Life & Culture
Deep Water: ‘A Chaucerian Scholar,’ by Edward J. Rielly
Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.
Posted inObituaries
Obituary: Stanley Bagdon Jr.
GRAY – Stanley Bagdon, Jr., 85, of Gray, died peacefully in his home on Saturday, May 24, 2025 after a long …
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Obituary: Roger W. Hoyt
STANDISH – Roger W. Hoyt, 88, passed away on Saturday, May 24, 2025. He was born on Jan. 7, 1937, in …