From the Chocolate Church: Bringing music to Maine Maritime Museum

Nick McCrea

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May 18, 2023

From the Chocolate Church: Bringing music to Maine Maritime Museum

The sounds of bluegrass and folk music will fill the outdoors on the grounds of the Maine Maritime Museum in Bath on June 11 when the Chocolate Church presents Erica Brown and The Bluegrass Connection. This marks the third year concerts have been held outside on the grounds of the museum, thanks to a partnership […]
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May 17, 2023

Six Rivers Youth Sports to buy site of former Topsham sports dome

Location will complement adjacent project for an NHL-size ice arena on site
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May 17, 2023

Jase Graves: How to ‘un-dorm’ a college student

Every year in late spring, parents of college students all over America travel to university campuses with stylish IKEA storage bags or (in our case) cardboard boxes that once held bulk orders of toilet paper and tortilla chips. When the parents arrive, they joyfully greet their academically hungover children and start the arduous and sometimes […]
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May 17, 2023

The Maine Idea: On economic issues, progressives missing in action

By most measures, a new progressive movement in Maine ought to be taking hold. Democrats control the Blaine House, the Senate by a robust margin and the House by a comfortable one – as they have now for three legislative terms running. The LePage years of acrimonious divided government are fading into the past. Yet […]
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May 17, 2023

Maine State Music Theatre singers to perform in Fryeberg

After a three-year pandemic hiatus, Maine State Music Theatre, the state’s leading professional company known for “Bringing Broadway to Brunswick,” returns to the Leura Hill Eastman Performing Arts Center (on the campus of Fryeburg Academy), on Friday, June 2, with the musical revue “MSMT Sings the Best of Broadway.” The 7 p.m. performance will celebrate the work […]
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May 17, 2023

The Conversation: War rooms and bailouts: How banks and the Fed are preparing for a US default – and the chaos expected to follow

THE CONVERSATION — Convening war rooms, planning speedy bailouts and raising house-on-fire alarm bells: Those are a few of the ways the biggest banks and financial regulators are preparing for a potential default on U.S. debt. “You hope it doesn’t happen, but hope is not a strategy – so you prepare for it,” Brian Moynihan, CEO of Bank […]
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May 16, 2023

Dick Polman: Trump suckered CNN right into his sewer

To borrow a phrase from Claude Rains in “Casablanca,” I was shocked, shocked! to find that non-stop lying was going on in the MAGA game room at CNN. Just as I (and many other rational observers) had warned in advance, CNN’s decision to gift a free hour to a pathological cult leader – to a […]
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May 16, 2023

Michael Reagan: AOC and the war on our appliances

AOC and her Green New Deal buddies in the Biden government are not just winning their crusade against fossil fuels. They’re also wrecking the country – appliance by appliance. Our washing machines, refrigerators and microwaves have already been made less efficient and more expensive because of new federal standards pushed by fanatical environmentalists who think […]
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May 14, 2023

The Conversation: On its 75th birthday, Israel still can’t agree on what it means to be a Jewish state and a democracy

THE CONVERSATION — As Israel celebrates the 75th anniversary of its founding, and nearly a century and a half after the first Zionists came to Palestine from Europe, the core tension behind the country’s establishment – whether a Jewish state could be a democratic state, whether Zionism could accommodate pluralism – is more obvious than ever. […]
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May 12, 2023

Gordon L. Weil: Supreme Court needs an ethics code

As a newspaper correspondent, I was once offered a free trip to write an article about an event at a distant location. The sponsors would pay for my travel and lodging. While I was confident I’d write an objective piece, it’s likely they expected a favorable report. I asked my editor if I could accept […]