Phillip Hoose collaborated on ‘Claudette Colvin: I Want Freedom Now!’ about Colvin’s refusal to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus in 1955, nine months before Rosa Parks.
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Letter: ‘Local control’ cripples housing in Maine
If a majority of Americans are OK with mass disruption at the national level, why can’t there be some serious rethinking of Maine’s housing policies?
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Maine DEP: $50M sludge bond would preserve landfill space
The proposal to bond funding for grants to help local sewer districts tackle the statewide sludge-disposal problem needs approval by a legislative committee and two-thirds of the House and Senate before it could be sent to voters in November.
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Letter: Not fooled by Collins’ Hegseth vote
I find it incredibly disingenuous for Sen. Susan Collins and her backers to take credit for finally opposing Pete Hegseth’s nomination for secretary of defense. It seems clear that Donald Trump and his group figured out that the team could lose a couple of Republican votes and still get this dangerous man confirmed as the […]
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Tina Fey’s remake of ‘The Four Seasons’ stars Colman Domingo, Steve Carell
The 8-episode rom-com series is adapted from the 1981 film of the same name.
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Letter: Portrait of Maine’s 2nd District was incomplete
Nate Bowditch’s Jan. 21 op-ed (“What canvassing in Maine’s 2nd District told me about America“) paints an incomplete picture. I too canvassed in the 2nd District and saw plenty of Harris-Walz signs, in spite of evidence of economic decline and Trump’s win. It was a colossal failure of leadership and imagination that allowed communities throughout […]
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Letter: Musk’s power grab must be stopped
This is a coup against the checks and balances that protect our nation.
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Kittery social services hub aims to be a one-stop shop to battle poverty
Mainspring brings multiple agencies under one roof to address poverty in southern York County and seacoast New Hampshire in a way that restores dignity and breaks down stigmas.
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These shareable Italian sub sliders boast big, bold flavors
With cured meats, toasted bread, pickled and brined produce, and a zippy sauce, these Italian sliders are a winning combination.
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Opinion: Stop besmirching Maine’s medical cannabis program
Scaremongering by Gov. Mills and others on the subject of tracking and testing is very disheartening.