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The Source of Self-Regard Selected Essays, Speeches & Meditations by Toni Morrison Published by Alfred Knopf 2019 Pages 350 Price $28.95 Toni Morrison, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, died this summer on August 5, 2019. She wrote eleven books on black culture and showed America the pain of being an outsider from the […]
Hurricane Dorian prompts High Surf Advisory along coastline
BIDDEFORD — Forecasters are predicting that Hurricane Dorian will stay offshore and not strike Maine this weekend, but in case it does, Maine’s Emergency Management Agency is remaining vigilant and keeping a careful eye on the monster storm that caused widespread devastation in the Bahamas and massive flooding in the Carolinas earlier this week. The Maine Emergency […]
Stranded North Carolinians take stock of Dorian’s damage
ATLANTIC BEACH, N.C. (AP) — As the sky cleared and floodwaters receded Saturday, residents of North Carolina’s Outer Banks began to assess the damage wrought by Hurricane Dorian. Steve Harris has lived on Ocracoke Island for most of the last 19 years. He’s ridden out eight hurricanes, but he said he’d never seen a storm […]
Village Idiot: Which ones are the really bad neighborhoods?
I visited Malta last year. You may have heard of their falcon. Malta is a country on three small islands between Sicily and Africa, almost dead-center in the Mediterranean. It’s about the size of Staten Island, but it’s an independent country and a member of the European Union. It is a very, very old country. […]
Gordon Weil: Renewable energy still faces big challenges
When it comes to climate change and renewable energy, there’s some good news, but a lot of bad news. Most people would probably agree that if we could produce energy without harming the environment and at lower cost than the traditional fuels, we should do it. But we keep running into problems making that virtually […]
New York Times Best Sellers
The New York Times List of Best Sellers for the week ending Sept. 8, 2019: FICTION 1. Where The Crawdads Sing Delia Owens A woman who survived alone in the marsh becomes a murder suspect. 2. Old Bones Douglas Preston; Lincoln Child An expedition into the Sierra […]
Incumbent will face challenger in Biddeford mayoral election
BIDDEFORD ‑ November’s mayor race in Biddeford may be a litmus test about how residents feel about the changes to parking policies in the downtown, which include paying to park in city-owned lots. Incumbent Mayor Alan Casavant, a proponent of the changes will face off on Nov. 5 against the policies’ most vocal opponent, Jason […]
Valerie Egar: Museum Cat
I have the best job a cat could possibly have. Like my father and grandfather before me, I am in charge of rodent control for the Higgendorf Town Museum, a small museum located on a side street by the canal in our beautiful town. Glass cases display examples of the lace made here hundreds of […]
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