PORTLAND — Not everyone enjoys going to the dentist, but what if the dentist could come to you? For more than 20 military veterans, that’s exactly what happened on June 5, thanks to a partnership between Aspen Dental and the nonprofit organization One Warrior Won. Richard Brewer, a Portland resident and former teacher at Cheverus […]
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Dishin' That: Don't let the job interview eat you up
There’s been much rambling here recently on the do’s and dont’s of landing and/or keeping a restaurant job. Chiming in with their own suggestions, a few hospitality brothers and sisters made good points through email. Further brainstorming with my Restaurant Creative Consulting Team (which is always an excuse to drink wine), we dug deeper for […]
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Out & About: Summer-stock theater season opens
The summer solstice may be a couple of weeks away, but Maine’s 2015 season of straw-hat theater is already flowering. The 2015 season will include a number of traditional Broadway favorites plus a slew of recent shows. In Brunswick, Maine State Music Theatre just opened a wonderfully funny and poignant production of “The Full Monty,” […]
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The Universal Notebook: The land we love (and the governor we don't)
The land we love used to be a third of an acre in Yarmouth. Now it’s half an acre in Brunswick. We are slowly making it our own, shaping it by hand into what we want it to be before we move on. For 32 years, we worked on our Yarmouth yard, cutting down swamp […]
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Letter: Religion is as good a reason as any for law
Advocating “physician-assisted suicide,” Edgar Allen Beem writes that “As a person of faith(?), I am frankly sick and tired of the Catholic Church and religious conservatives trying to force their beliefs on society as a whole.” This is an example of the muddled thinking and hypocrisy that is increasingly common among many “progressive” opinion writers […]
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Letter: Troubled by the church's view of death
Edgar Allen Beem makes interesting comments about LD 1270, “An Act Regarding Patient-Directed Care at the End of Life.” But the comment I find most interesting was one in which he comes down on Catholicism for the suggestion that “life is a sacred gift from God, and only he can determine the time of our […]
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Letter: LePage must learn to deal with anger
Congratulations to Steve Woods on his insightful look at our governor’s behavior (Intentionally Unreasonable: “Paul LePage: Feel his pain, fear his anger”). While LePage has ventured into political lands which few have dared, his behavior of pointing fingers at other elected officials is crude, not businesslike, and certainly not reflective of the quality of the […]
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Portland gets venue for major-market traveling exhibits
PORTLAND — Joe Gold thinks “people will be amazed” by what he’s creating in the Old Port. His Salem, Massachusetts-based entertainment marketing and promotion company is creating the Portland Science Center. It’s billed as the state’s first exhibition hall and science center, a 15,000-square-foot space to showcase traveling exhibits of the type that typically spend […]
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Brunswick nonprofit to help jail prisoners get jobs
PORTLAND — Coastal Counties Workforce has received a $500,000 federal grant to provide job counseling services to prisoners at the Cumberland County Jail. The U.S. Department of Labor grant was announced June 4 by U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree, D-Maine. The Brunswick-based nonprofit will establish a job center to help soon-to-be-released prisoners prepare for and find […]
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Portland offers workshop on new storm-water fee
PORTLAND — Property owners hoping to reduce a new city fee to fund storm-water system improvements can learn more at a June 16 workshop at Deering High School, 730 Stevens Ave. The 4 p.m. workshop will bring together specialists, engineers and landscape architects, and staff from the city and Cumberland County Soil and Water Conservation […]