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PublishedOctober 24, 2022
Letters to the editor: Bottle redemption; power push; election endorsements
Broken bottles Maine’s bottle redemption law has driven me to the brink; or should I say Clynk? For the most part, it has functioned as designed and kept beverage containers out of landfills and off the side of our roads. For quite some time it was relatively easy to return and redeem the empty containers […]
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PublishedOctober 24, 2022
The Conversation: Experts grade social media on readiness to handle midterm election lies
The 2016 U.S. election was a wake-up call about the dangers of political misinformation on social media. With two more election cycles rife with misinformation under their belts, social media companies have experience identifying and countering misinformation. However, the nature of the threat misinformation poses to society continues to shift in form and targets. The […]
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PublishedOctober 21, 2022
Rep. Allison Hepler: Volunteers help fill the transportation gap
I recently had the opportunity to ride along with a volunteer driver for the Volunteer Transportation Network (VTN), a local program that provides free rides to folks in need of accomplishing errands or getting to medical appointments. In my two hours spent with the driver and the rider, it became abundantly clear that there is […]
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PublishedOctober 21, 2022
Doug Bennett and Ingrid Chalufour: What’s Brunswick’s story, really?
What’s Brunswick’s story? How do we understand this place? We know it, don’t we, as a place where people have come to live, work, raise families and play for decades, for centuries, for millennia. It’s a good place, one of the best. We tell stories of the places we settle in various ways. We write […]
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PublishedOctober 21, 2022
Gordon L. Weil: Ukraine ends a post WWII world
The Ukraine War wasn’t supposed to happen. At the end of the Second World War, Americans and others drank their own bathwater, as the saying goes. They imagined that the winning alliance – the U.S., Britain, the Soviet Union, France and China – had finally halted the endless land wars for territorial gain. In 1945, […]
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PublishedOctober 21, 2022
Midcoast Symphony Orchestra announces Oct. 29-30 season opener
Orchestra to perform music by Brahms, Coleman and Shostakovich with piano soloist.
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PublishedOctober 21, 2022
Giving Voice: Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program prepares to start a new chapter
GIVING VOICE — For many of us, the past year at Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program has felt like a waiting game. Waiting for zoning changes, building plans, freezers, food and just about everything else. We learned again and again that our small corner of the world is not exempt from disruptions in the global […]
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PublishedOctober 21, 2022
Magic on Maine auction returns to in-person event in Brunswick
The Brunswick Downtown Association’s benefit auction will be held in person this year. After two years hosting the fundraiser online, the BDA is bringing back their Live and Silent Auction on Oct. 20 at NOMAD Maine (formerly the Frontier) located at 14 Maine St. in Fort Andross. NOMAD will serve a variety of their classic, […]
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PublishedOctober 21, 2022
Barbara Held: What Barbara Ehrenreich taught a diehard pessimist about hope
Upon learning of the death last month of my hero and friend, the great social-justice activist and journalist Barbara Ehrenreich, my thoughts turned to her 2007 Harper’s article, “Pathologies of Hope.” She opened with no punches pulled: “I hate hope. It was hammered into me constantly a few years ago when I was being treated […]
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PublishedOctober 21, 2022
Concerts for a Cause welcomes Dirty Cello to stage
Fresh off its third tour to Iceland with crazy adventures like playing at an Icelandic film star’s wedding to a show on a whale watching boat, San Francisco-based band Dirty Cello will bring its unique spin on cello to the Unitarian Universalist Church in Brunswick at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 28, to raise money for […]
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