Just a Little Old: Reflections on parenthood

Nick McCrea

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October 7, 2022

Just a Little Old: Reflections on parenthood

My first wife and I moved from Boston to New York City in the summer of 1967. We lived in a small apartment on the Upper East Side along with our son David, just 7 months old at the time. David soon learned that he could climb out of his crib, so we resorted to […]
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October 7, 2022

Your Land: What’s in your ‘shed?

I come warily to this writing. It is, after all, summer’s end, and with it, our turn toward winter. Still, Mere Brook and its watershed insist. “We’re central; we’re Brunswick,” they might say if given voice’s chance. Near the midsection of August, I sat in on a US Navy-convened meeting of interested parties that included […]
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October 7, 2022

Gordon Weil: Historic economic change is looming

The political campaign focuses on inflation. Somebody must be held responsible for high prices and even for a recession that hasn’t happened. Economic conditions could always be better. But right now, things may be better than they seem. And they’re surely different. First, some good news. The U.S. is the world economic superpower with the […]
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October 6, 2022

John Micek: Social media companies need to turn down the heat

Baseless attacks by online trolls — whether anonymous or by well-known politicians and public figures — have created a cascade of hate, “underpinned by dangerous misinformation and outright lies against the LGBTQ+ community,” according to recently released research. That’s the top-line finding of a new report, jointly released by the Center for Countering Digital Hate […]
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October 6, 2022

BoomerTECH Adventures: Tips for photographing our fabulous fall foliage

Look around; the leaves are changing. In another week or two, the Midcoast will be bursting with oranges, yellows and brilliant reds. These days, most of us carry a cell phone with a camera, which means when coming across a stunning example of fall colors, it’s possible to snap a picture on the run. Even […]
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October 6, 2022

The Maine Idea: On power corridor, ‘the law’s delay’ is getting out of hand

It’s going to be a tough winter. Maine’s average residential electricity rates have soared to 22 cents a kilowatt – equal to Massachusetts’s, which used to be higher – and a 47% increase over a year ago. If you heat with oil, it’s even more alarming – though gasoline prices have come down, heating oil […]
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October 5, 2022

The Conversation: Unrest across Iran continues under state’s extreme gender apartheid

THE CONVERSATION — Unrest continues to erupt across Iran following the death of a 22-year-old Kurdish Iranian woman, who died after being arrested and reportedly beaten by Iran’s morality police. The Iranian force took Mahsa (Zhina) Amini into detention on Sept. 16, 2022, for not wearing her hijab according to the rules. As of Sept. 28, at least […]
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October 5, 2022

Letters to the editor: Scam scare; more 2022 endorsements

Scam scare I nearly got scammed last week. Luckily, we knew just the person who could help me. But let’s start at the beginning. Sometimes when I buy items online, I use PayPal, a very reputable company which I have used many times. Once you sign up, you don’t have to keep putting your credit […]
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October 5, 2022

Jase Graves: The pen is sillier than the sword

For those of you who don’t know, my more respectable gig for the past quarter century, or so, has been teaching college English. (Scary, I know.) Teaching English is sometimes like teaching a teenager to drive a car – including the sensations of intense frustration, looking away in terror, and dreading a catastrophic pileup of […]
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October 4, 2022

Outdoor adventure film festival making Damariscotta its first stop in US

The Kendal Mountain Festival Tour is coming to American cinemas for the first time in its 42-year history and will be screening at Damariscotta’s historic Lincoln Theater for one night only, Thursday, Oct. 13, at 7 p.m. This special film event, which features eight short adventure documentaries, allows audiences to experience incredible stories from award-winning […]