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PublishedJanuary 4, 2024
Letters to the editor: WIC funding; popular vote; gun control
Congress needs to fund WIC program If Congress fails to fully fund the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) by Jan. 19, states will need to reduce WIC participation by about 2 million young children and pregnant and postpartum adults nationwide by September, with harm falling disproportionately on Black and Hispanic […]
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PublishedJanuary 4, 2024
Giving Voice: The push to meet growing need of hungry families
I have been serving with Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program for over a decade, but my tenure as executive director is still new. I take this responsibility seriously, and I deeply value the trust that has been placed in me to lead this organization and community into the future. I look forward to what we […]
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PublishedJanuary 4, 2024
Tom Purcell: The urgency to become cyber-secure in 2024
Cyber attacks will be significantly worse in 2024 for anyone who uses a digital device. Yet few are aware of, or prepared for, the threats they face — or how their poor cybersecurity skills are putting them and their families at incredible risk. Case in point: Last year, the top 10 weakest passwords were pretty […]
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PublishedJanuary 4, 2024
The Maine Idea: Juries and voters should decide Trump’s fate
For a few days, Secretary of State Shenna Bellows landed squarely in the national spotlight as Maine became the second state with a decision denying Donald Trump a place on the March 5 primary ballot. For all the ire it aroused, Bellows’ written decision is straightforward and matter-of-fact. She concluded about the events of Jan. […]
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PublishedJanuary 3, 2024
Damariscotta theater presents ‘A Dancer’s Journey to Live’
Damariscotta’s Lincoln Theater is hosting dancer Korinn Mowrey for a live presentation of “A Dancer’s Journey to Live” at 7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 11. Through storytelling and dance, Mowrey shares her life experiences, showing us how we all have the magic within us to overcome our addictions and be successful in achieving our dreams. “A […]
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PublishedJanuary 3, 2024
Inventor to sign copies of autobiography in Bath
Award-winning inventor Kenneth L. Carr will sign copies of his new autobiography, “One Long Road: From Missiles to Medicine,” from 2-4 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 13, at Kennebec Tavern, 119 Commercial St. in Bath. The recipient of the international 2022 Microwave Pioneer Award from the IEEE’s Microwave Theory and Techniques Society, Carr grew up in Cambridge, […]
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PublishedJanuary 2, 2024
The Conversation: From the moon’s south pole to an ice-covered ocean world, several exciting space missions are slated for launch in 2024
THE CONVERSATION — The year 2023 proved to be an important one for space missions, with NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returning a sample from an asteroid and India’s Chandrayaan-3 mission exploring the lunar south pole, and 2024 is shaping up to be another exciting year for space exploration. Several new missions under NASA’s Artemis plan and Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative will […]
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PublishedJanuary 1, 2024
Elwood Watson: Generation X is almost 60
Latchkey kids. Slackers. Caffeine lovers. Grunge. That’s how a lot of people have referred to Generation X, the 46 million Americans, like myself, who were born between 1965 and 1980. We were a generation that has been perennially pegged as cynical, self-indulgent, aimless, contrarian, and often peripheral when it comes to life and other everyday […]
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PublishedJanuary 1, 2024
Guest column: Brunswick-Topsham Land Trust’s year in review
With every new year comes an opportunity to both reflect on where we have been and look to the future. For Brunswick-Topsham Land Trust (BTLT), the theme of 2023, as conveyed in our annual report, was ‘branching out’ as we expanded our educational work by merging with Cathance River Education Alliance (CREA). Our board, staff […]
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PublishedDecember 29, 2023
Just a Little Old: Trump has bamboozled white Christian Evangelicals
In 2016, 81% of white Christian Evangelicals voted for Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton. In 2020, 80% of white Christian Evangelicals voted for Trump over Joe Biden. How could millions of people who purport to follow the teachings of a man as humble as Jesus Christ support a man as heinous as Donald Trump? Maybe […]
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