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PublishedDecember 24, 2021
Gordon Weil: People insist on believing untruths
The naked truth about vaxing, voting and hacking
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PublishedDecember 24, 2021
Guest column: Counting my blessings in Brunswick
Contemporary self-help books and internet blogs are full of the word “gratitude” these days. Helpful advisors and happiness gurus ask us to be grateful for what we have rather than dwell on what we do not have. They are right, of course, we should be grateful. But I prefer to fall back on my mother’s […]
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PublishedDecember 24, 2021
Elwood Watson: ‘We can’t overstate her influence’: Remembering bell hooks
“I think we can’t overstate her influence.” That’s a statement from Imani Perry, distinguished professor of Black Studies at Princeton University, who deftly and accurately summed up the impact of cultural critic Gloria Jean Watkins, better known to most of the world as bell hooks. hooks, a revolutionary feminist voice, departed this Earth on Dec. […]
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PublishedDecember 23, 2021
Suit settled over trans teen’s suicide at detention center
The mother of a transgender teenager who died by suicide at a youth detention center in Maine has settled a wrongful death lawsuit against the state for $225,000. The Bangor Daily News reported the settlement Thursday in the death of Charles Knowles, 16, at Long Creek Youth Development Center in fall 2016. Michelle Knowles, of […]
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PublishedDecember 23, 2021
Maine Coast Fishermen’s Association to host pop-up shop fundraiser
Maine Coast Fishermen’s Association is hosting a holiday pop-up shop at their office at 93 Pleasant St. in Brunswick Thursday, Dec. 23. from noon to 5 p.m. Masks are required. The pop-up shop will have a selection of association merchandise including shirts, sweatshirts, mugs, bags and will feature the newly released cookbook “Catch: A Maine […]
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PublishedDecember 23, 2021
Photos: The art of giving in Bath
Each classroom at Fisher Mitchell Elementary School in Bath was challenged to collect as many cans of food as they could to support the Bath Area Food Bank. Students collected 467 cans and fifth graders helped school librarian Meg Barker deliver the cans earlier this month. The food drive, organized by Barker, helped introduce students […]
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PublishedDecember 23, 2021
The Maine Idea: In the bleak midwinter, a fragile reed
Somewhere around this time of year, the song, and the tune, come into my head: “In the bleak midwinter, frosty wind made moan; earth stood hard as iron, water like a stone.” It seems to sum up the reasons, often inexplicable to outsiders, why those of us who choose to live in Maine do so. […]
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PublishedDecember 23, 2021
Intertidal: Glow worms light a dark winter ocean
This week, when yards are all aglow with holiday lights, there is another unusual light to be found in the intertidal. It’s a strange little worm that has a hidden power to glow in the dark. While many glowing ocean creatures are found in the dark depths, these are found in the shallow waters close […]
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PublishedDecember 23, 2021
BoomerTECH Adventures: Make a great start with your new (or new-to-you) device
Congratulations! Are you enjoying your new (or at least new-to-you) device, smartphone, tablet, smartwatch or computer? Whatever device you have you want it to be useful, fun and engaging, a tool that doesn’t drive you crazy. For that to happen you need to learn how to use your smartphone, tablet, computer or other device […]
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PublishedDecember 23, 2021
Tom Purcell: The AOCs of student loan debt
‘Tis the season for giving — or, for some legislators, a good time to demand that the government force taxpayers to give others a large gift. A few weeks ago, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez took to the house floor to issue another plea for the federal government to cancel nearly $1.7 trillion in student-loan debt. That […]
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