Although regressive in terms of policy, backing out of the Paris Climate Change Agreement is only saving Americans the embarrassment about their ignorance or hypocrisy about energy usage. Facts: 1. Combined solar and wind production is still less than 2 percent of national energy usage, petroleum 36 percent. 2. In June 2016, Americans consumed more […]
Coastal Journal
Midcoast news from The Forecaster.
Letter to the editor: Let’s safeguard our environment
As citizens and voters in our community and state, we have many issues to understand and express our opinions on through the ballot and by contacting our legislators in Augusta. For example, locally in Brunswick we have the June school budget referendum; on the state level there are competing budget proposals for our legislators to […]
Letter to the editor: Brunswick school referendum: Are children really our future?
The question about a new school has become a divisive topic among citizens of Brunswick. Some people want a new school, and property taxes will be greatly increased. There are people who cannot afford higher property taxes and who instead want to look at the education process and not simply new buildings. Many elderly people […]
Midcoast chapter observes National Gun Violence Awareness Day
Members of the Midcoast chapter of Maine Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense marched down Maine Street Brunswick.
REVIEW: ‘Constellations,’ one couple, many relationships
An interesting concept for the latest one-act play from Midcoast Actor’s Studio drove Tamara Lilly to Belfast to see Jason and Leah Bannister’s portrayal of a couple meeting across different dimensions.
Bath kicks off summer art walk, concert series
BATH — With warm weather finally here to stay, the city will welcome summer with the return of the 3rd Friday Art Walk and Summer Concert Series. The season’s first art walk on Friday, June 16, from 4-7 p.m., will showcase more than 25 artists. A free map, available around the city and at visitbath.com/events/3rd-friday-artwalk, […]
Rising credit scores boon for home ownership
Record high credit scores for consumers indicate 2017 will be a solid year for home sales.
Memories of the original Morse High
Only a few people are still around that remember the original Morse High School, which burned back in 1928.
Not just a mud flat at Brunswick’s Wharton Point
Brunswick’s Wharton Point serves as an outdoor classroom for Brunswick High SChool.
RSU 40 to decide $26 million budget
WALDOBORO — Residents of Regional School Unit 40 – which represents Friendship, Union, Waldoboro, Warren, and Washington – will decide on a $26,299,247 school budget on June 13. The budget, which represents a 4.67 percent or roughly $1 million increase, would increase the local share in Waldoboro by $213,882, or 4.2 percent. Voters approved the […]