Once deemed professionally competent, no server likes to be micromanaged. Positive reinforcement and well-orchestrated teamwork is appreciated, but in-your-face, tripping over your shoelaces “help” certainly is not. Aside from enforcing practical rules, micromanagement, no matter how unintentional, leads to chaos, embarrassment and animosity. In a restaurant front-of-the-house, how things are handled, both routine and out-of-the-norm, […]
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Letter: Woods column sends wrong message about language
As a linguist, life-long language learner, and someone who promotes foreign language learning, I would like to respond to Steve Woods’ recent column about Chinese in a recent issue of The Forecaster (“Intentionally Unreasonable: A new world view, made in China,” Oct. 12), written as a letter to his children. The economic viability of certain […]
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The Unviersal Notebook: O, liberal sweep of Canada
Last week, I drove 1,550 miles to and through New Brunswick, making stops in Edmundston, Fredericton, Moncton, Bouctouche, Sackville and St. John on a whirlwind tour of art and artists in the province. I have always thought of Canada as a kinder, gentler America, a place less violent, less greedy, less polluted and about a […]
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Short Relief: Political diversity would solve many of Portland's problems
Portland is a great little city. It has handsome, old buildings; access to the ocean, lakes, rivers and mountains; good hospitals and medical care; great arts and culture; world-class restaurants, even our own minor league baseball, basketball and hockey teams. Your kids can get a good education in its schools, and the city is relatively […]
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Letter: Tired of tea party politics in Washington
In Congress, the tea party is again threatening to shut down the government unless Planned Parenthood is defunded. Investigations of Planned Parenthood have found no guilt. It has not been proven that all the recent emotional films were taken at Planned Parenthood facilities. The result is fraught with emotions, not facts. The tea party does […]
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Letter: Bus may serve Brunswick better than train
Restoration of passenger rail service in Maine has been a subject of much statewide discussion in recent years. The Northern New England Passenger Rail Authority, an agency of state government, is the operator of the service, and could not exist without very substantial federal subsidies, and sizable amounts from the state. Communities with stations also […]
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Westbrook-based Current Publishing joins Sun Media Group of Lewiston
WESTBROOK — Current Publishing, a weekly newspaper publication group in southern Maine, has merged with the Lewiston-based Sun Media Group. Current Publishing, founded in 2001 by Lee Hews, operates the Current in Scarborough, Cape Elizabeth and South Portland; the American Journal in Westbrook; Tri-Town Weekly in Freeport, Durham and Pownal, and the Lakes Region Weekly […]
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Bath bank replaces stolen library funds
BATH — Bath Savings Institution on Tuesday replaced the $1,200 stolen from Patten Free Library the morning of Oct. 23. Police have not found the person who broke into the Summer Street library and took a donation jar containing about $1,200 that had been collected for educational materials since Sept. 1. “We were incredibly disheartened […]
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Mid-Coast Meetings: Oct. 30 to Nov. 5
Bath Tues. 11/3 6 p.m. Planning Board CH Wed. 11/4 6 p.m. City Council CH Wed. 11/4 7 p.m. Community Forestry Committee CH Brunswick Mon. 11/2 7 p.m. Town Council TH Tues. 11/3 7 p.m. Master Plan Implementation Committee TH Tues. 11/3 7:15 p.m. Village Review Board TH Wed. 11/4 10 a.m. Staff Review TH […]
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Harpswell Police Beat: Oct. 30
Arrests No arrests or summonses were reported from Oct. 19-25.