PORTLAND — “There’s never a dull moment with this age group, that’s for sure,” said Regina Erskine, who has been teaching health at Lyman Moore Middle School since 1989. “I’ve always been interested in health,” said Erskine, a native of Dixmont, “and they didn’t teach health in the schools when I was growing up.” Spurred […]
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Out & About: Tip-top music for late January
With the calendar approaching the end of January, the seasonal slowdown in the performing arts has pretty much ended, with most of southern Maine’s performers, producers and presenters returning to local stages with a variety of tip-top offerings. Portland Ovations returns with Wynton Marsalis and Jazz at Lincoln Center in a Jan. 25 show that’s […]
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Forecaster Forum: 'Out' in Maine: How people, times change
Weeks before graduation from my small-town high school in the spring of 1975, I was caught by a state trooper having sex with another man in the woods of Maine. We were minors, exploring our sexuality in the back seat of a Volkswagen bug. The implications surrounding this event changed my life and the lives […]
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The View From Away: Online college education isn't college or education
A friend recently sent me an article predicting the imminent demise of college as we know it at the hands of the cheaper, more efficient Internet. My friend sees this trend toward online higher education as an opportunity for me to teach in the digital classroom. She may be right. God knows I have failed […]
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The Universal Notebook: It's time to tax guns, ammo
Walking the dog the other day at Twin Brook Recreation Area in Cumberland, I was treated to the incessant bam-bam, bam-bam-bam, bam-bam, bam-bam-bam-bam, bam of someone targeting shooting somewhere off to the west. At least I hope they were just target shooting. You can’t discharge a firearm in Maine within 300 feet of any residential […]
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Forecaster Forum: Reports that we are dying are greatly exaggerated
Back in 1897, James Ross Clemens was ill. Not-so-careful passing on of information resulted in word that Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by his pen name of Mark Twain, was dying in London. When an enterprising reporter decided to check on Twain before publishing his demise, the author responded, “The report of my death was […]
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Letter: Looking forward to Delogu's follow-up
I would like to thank Orland Delogu for his well-researched Policy Wonk column on corporate welfare in Maine (“Corporate welfare in Maine: Alive, well – and growing”). Readers, I’m sure, look forward to further examination of what our tax dollars pay for jobs in Maine (presently outrageous) and possibly a new formula to rectify what […]
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Letter: Portland should reject tar-sands oil
I am writing in support of a policy currently being considered by the Portland City Council that would direct the city to only purchase and use fuel for city-owned vehicles that come from oil refineries that do not process tar sands. The tar sands policy is part of a larger environmental performance policy being considered […]
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Westbrook woman's death in Portland ruled a homicide
PORTLAND — A woman found dead in a vehicle at a motel Thursday afternoon has been identified as Margarita Fisenko Scott, 29, of Westbrook. After an autopsy by the state medical examiner, police said Scott’s death was a homicide, the first in the city this year. The cause of death was not released. Scott’s body was […]
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Police investigating 'suspicious' death at Portland motel
PORTLAND — Police are investigating the death of a woman whose body was discovered Thursday afternoon in a vehicle parked at a Riverside Street motel, near the Westbrook border. The body was discovered at Motel 6 at about 3:30 p.m, and police are treating the death as “suspicious,” City Hall spokeswoman Nicole Clegg said Thursday […]