John Swinconeck is the executive editor of The Times Record, The Forecaster group, American Journal and Lakes Region Weekly. He has spent most of his journalistic career covering local news in Maine. When not working he enjoys collecting cheap guitars, cooking and spending time with his wife and kids. He lives in Bath. He is a graduate of the University of Southern Maine.
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PublishedDecember 8, 2020
Land trust to preserve 2 Harpswell properties
Contributed photo via Harpswell Heritage Land Trust Harpswell Heritage Land Trust has raised $350,000 to purchase and preserve two properties at the mouth of Strawberry Creek. A news release from trust states: “These properties make up a key part of the signature view seen across Mountain Road from Harpswell Town Hall and are important to […]
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PublishedDecember 8, 2020
Tech-based entrepreneurship course for female founders opens 2021 enrollment
Female entrepreneurs with ideas for software or software-enabled startups may now enroll in the 2021 cohort of Propeller, a free, six-week online course operated by the CEI Women’s Business Center. The course is designed to guide women from all backgrounds as they build their businesses while overcoming barriers that disproportionately affect female business owners, particularly […]
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PublishedDecember 8, 2020
Guest column: Lessons from once-stronger places
I’m an optimist. In fact, my wife tells friends that one of the reasons we were attracted to one another was that we were both optimists. But after we got married, she realized that one of us was going to have to become a realist, and it wasn’t going to be me! Yet as I […]
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PublishedDecember 8, 2020
The Recycle Bin: Recycling and universal waste
Your weekly question and answer column on what to recycle, what not to recycle, and why, in Brunswick. The public is encouraged to submit questions by email to brunsrecycleinfo@gmail.com
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PublishedDecember 8, 2020
John Micek: Trump is ignoring a 9/11 worth of deaths a day
On Wednesday, President Donald Trump released a video of himself standing behind a podium in the White House’s Diplomatic Room, where he delivered what he claimed was the “most important speech” of his presidency. The video, released on a day when the United States lost 2,798 people to the COVID-19 pandemic, did not show Trump […]
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PublishedDecember 7, 2020
The Maine Idea: Will Legislature rise to the occasion?
As expected, the convening of Maine’s 130th Legislature on Wednesday was like no other. Representatives and senators spread out all over the Augusta Civic Center – the first time lawmakers have convened outside the State House in more than a century. The Senate filled up the North Wing, and the House occupied the cavernous arena, […]
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PublishedDecember 7, 2020
Guest column: Midcoast, Maine should avoid Cape E response to winter moths
They are everywhere. You can see them swarming up your trees, floating above the roads and flying into your homes when you leave the door open for just a few seconds. Recently, I traveled to Massachusetts for Thanksgiving, and upon my return home to Harpswell, thousands of them were covering the exterior of my house. […]
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PublishedDecember 4, 2020
Letter: Honor those who have died by gun violence
Monday, Dec. 14, will mark the eighth anniversary of the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. Twenty-six people were killed by a 20-year-old man who then turned the gun on himself and took his own life. For me, I will always remember where I was when I heard the news. I was […]
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PublishedDecember 4, 2020
David Treadwell: ‘The Short Works of Methuselah and the Maiden’
“Do you know what flash fiction is?” The text from Anneka (“Ani”) Williams, a Bowdoin senior and one of our host students, came from out of the blue. “No, I don’t,” I replied, “what is it?” “Google it and get back to me. Maybe we can work on flash fiction together.” So I did. Flash […]
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PublishedDecember 4, 2020
Giving Voice: The Gathering Place in the time of COVID
It was March, almost nine months ago, when no one knew much about how to deal with COVID-19. Six of us met at The Gathering Place to decide what we should do in view of what seemed to us — naively as it turned out — would be a short term problem to be sorted […]
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