SOUTH PORTLAND – The South Portland City Council has decided to pursue a raise for members of the board of education money school board members say they don’t want. The decision was reached at a workshop session Monday, during which the council considered the report of a “blue-ribbon committee,” submitted June 18 following four months […]
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New shops for Oak Hill
SCARBOROUGH – Plans are under way for a new shopping center to be built in the Oak Hill area of Scarborough, on what is said to be the largest commercially zoned parcel left in the town’s central business district, behind the Dolphin Marketplace at 183 U.S. Route 1. Meanwhile, directly adjacent to that site, a […]
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Obama refocuses on U.S. economy
Advisers say some of his speeches in the upcoming weeks will contain specific policy proposals.
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Anniversary hike ends in another tragedy near The Wave
Just hours into Monday’s trek, 27-year-old Elisabeth Bervel died of cardiac arrest, becoming the third hiker in a month to succumb to the brutal heat and disorienting open country near the Utah-Arizona border.
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GUEST COLUMN: Put puppy mills out of business
We met in a parking lot off the interstate. I was nervous. We’d exchanged photos and back stories and now he was moving from Boston to Maine for me. He’d spent hard time in Arkansas, he was blind in one eye and his teeth were falling out. He was scared and scarred – in my […]
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GUEST COLUMN: Put puppy mills out of business
We met in a parking lot off the interstate. I was nervous. We’d exchanged photos and back stories and now he was moving from Boston to Maine for me. He’d spent hard time in Arkansas, he was blind in one eye and his teeth were falling out. He was scared and scarred – in my […]
Posted inAmerican Journal, Current, Lakes Region Weekly
GUEST COLUMN: Put puppy mills out of business
We met in a parking lot off the interstate. I was nervous. We’d exchanged photos and back stories and now he was moving from Boston to Maine for me. He’d spent hard time in Arkansas, he was blind in one eye and his teeth were falling out. He was scared and scarred – in my […]
Posted inAmerican Journal, Current, Lakes Region Weekly, Northern Forecaster
POLITICS AND OTHER MISTAKES – Too hot to think
Last week’s sizzling weather appears to have fried the few functioning neurons in many Maine politicians’ brains. Either that, or some of them were born stupid. Here are a few examples. The press release from the future. In early July, a computer-savvy source sent me a link to a website for 2nd District congressional candidate […]
Posted inCurrent, Southern Forecaster
Say ‘si’ to salsa in spicy chowder
Use a store-bought rotisserie chicken and set the spiciness with the salsa of your choice.
Posted inCurrent, Southern Forecaster
Wine: Character gets to the heart of wine – and oneself
I recently wrote about my allegiance to character as the guiding principle in approaching wine (and/or life). In sum: Character is not shorthand; not grape variety or color or price or even home region. Rather, character is the underlying spirit of a wine: its “is-ness,” expressed through personality. Some of that came from some stuff […]