After more than a year of hybrid and remote learning, Portland Public Schools students will return soon to full-time, in-person instruction. We’ll welcome them back with clear teaching and learning priorities organized around the goals of the Portland Promise, our strategic plan. These teaching and learning priorities are key to our students’ success and aligned […]
Forecaster Opinion
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Forum: Mainers would benefit from offshore wind projects
Maine’s working families have been closely paying attention to announcement after announcement along the East Coast about projects that are delivering on the economic potential of offshore wind energy development. In Massachusetts, the country’s first large-scale offshore wind project is creating roughly 500 new union construction jobs. A $350 million, 600,000-square-foot complex along the Hudson […]
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Here’s Something: An overabundance of caution is our undoing
By now, 17 months since that fateful Ides of March 2020, when Gov. Janet Mills shut down the Maine economy to essential services only in a vain attempt to stem the coronavirus surge in local hospitals, I bet everyone has had a run-in with someone, somewhere regarding COVID-19 protocols. I’ve had a few, but yesterday, […]
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Mainewhile: Women making strides at the Olympics
We were sitting around the dining room table the other night talking about the Olympics and the conversation wandered to the original games in ancient Greece. Among some of the more bizarre and gruesome bits of trivia and history was the relatively “common knowledge” nugget that the original games were played entirely in the nude. […]
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Life Unwound: The ripple effect of small acts
“A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees.” – Amelia Earhart I followed my young children, turning off lights as they left rooms. It concerned money. I thought about the electric bill, which my husband said saved only a few pennies. Then I […]
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Through My Lens: Those who refuse vaccine are un-American
What is nerve-wracking to me about the debate by the unvaccinated is how spoiled many Americans seem. At first I thought it was just funny to see Americans being picky and selective about their food, clothes, what stickers they put on their cars or laptops and what colors they paint their bedrooms. I did not […]
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Mainewhile: In support of death with dignity
A good friend lost a good dog last night. Angus was one of those kind souls who was always there for his people with a smile, a wag and eyes that held great depths of soul. He loved his pack and his pack loved him. He lived a long and good life filled with woody […]
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Forum: Balentine provides a vital service to Forecaster readers
If John Balentine’s goal is to get reaction to his columns in The Forecaster, well, to borrow a phrase from one of his two favorite 21st century presidents: Mission accomplished. The Northern Forecaster’s July 15 issue ran four letters and one full-length guest editorial that took aim at (and issue with) his expressed views on […]
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Here’s Something: My Olympic frustrations abound
I’ve always loved the Olympics. I wanted to be an Olympian when I was younger. But of course that didn’t happen. My lack of stick-to-it-tiveness instead won out. But while I’ll never be an Olympian, I enjoy watching all the people who have stuck to their training regimens and catapulted themselves to the Olympic level. […]
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Mainewhile: A spectrum of septic systems, access
A recent “homeowner-style event” at my house, I’ll spare you the details, got me thinking about septic systems. I know, not exactly the most glamorous of topics, and perhaps if you are currently snacking, you want to read this piece later. But, like the title of the much beloved children’s book makes clear, everyone poops. […]