Buy Local Scarborough has awarded Cynthia Kurtz and Lily Lemire the scholarship essay prizes of $500 each for graduating Scarborough High School seniors who are pursuing post-diploma studies. In the essay, students were asked to answer: Why should local people buy local? Cynthia Kurtz: Local businesses value customers Lily Lemire: The benefits of buying local
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Scarborough Buy Local essay winners
Buy Local Scarborough has awarded Cynthia Kurtz and Lily Lemire the scholarship essay prizes of $500 each for graduating Scarborough High School seniors who are pursuing post-diploma studies. In the essay, students were asked to answer: Why should local people buy local? Cynthia Kurtz: Local businesses value customers Lily Lemire: The benefits of buying local
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Scarborough Buy Local essay winners
Buy Local Scarborough has awarded Cynthia Kurtz and Lily Lemire the scholarship essay prizes of $500 each for graduating Scarborough High School seniors who are pursuing post-diploma studies. In the essay, students were asked to answer: Why should local people buy local? Cynthia Kurtz: Local businesses value customers Lily Lemire: The benefits of buying local
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LIFE IN THE SUBURBS: The graduation speech from hell
When a person is in politics, some people elevate the person in big and strange ways (always a mistake). Often this is done to make the elevator feel more important (“We have been in contact with such and such a person he is in politics!!”). I first experienced this phenomenon in l984 when I began […]
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LIFE IN THE SUBURBS: The graduation speech from hell
When a person is in politics, some people elevate the person in big and strange ways (always a mistake). Often this is done to make the elevator feel more important (“We have been in contact with such and such a person he is in politics!!”). I first experienced this phenomenon in l984 when I began […]
Posted inAmerican Journal, Current, Lakes Region Weekly, Northern Forecaster
GUEST COLUMN: GMOs not as scary as they sound
This concerns Ben Bragdon’s editorial, “Consumers should know if food genetically tweaked” in the May 31 Lakes Region Weekly, written in support of Maine bill LD 718. On the surface, the position Ben presented – that consumers have a right to know what is in their food – sounds perfectly reasonable. Food labeling requirements are […]
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GUEST COLUMN: GMOs not as scary as they sound
This concerns Ben Bragdon’s editorial, “Consumers should know if food genetically tweaked” in the May 31 Lakes Region Weekly, written in support of Maine bill LD 718. On the surface, the position Ben presented – that consumers have a right to know what is in their food – sounds perfectly reasonable. Food labeling requirements are […]
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EDITORIAL: Local spending has its limits
Gov. Paul LePage’s plan to eliminate municipal revenue sharing in the next two-year budget was roundly, and rightly, denounced by local officials throughout Maine. It was a dereliction of duty on the part of the governor, who acted tough while passing all the work and tough decisions to the cities and towns. Fortunately, many legislators, […]
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Nurse’s testimony opens Sanford man’s kidnapping, rape trial
Dane Bosley is charged with attacking a 14-yearold girl on her way to school in 2008.
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Nurse’s testimony opens Sanford man’s kidnapping, rape trial
Dane Bosley is charged with attacking a 14-yearold girl on her way to school in 2008.