Am I a perfect person? Well, folks, the jury is way, way out on that, so far out as to be not anywhere at all. There are actually those who think I am not even close to being perfect, but what do they know? Thus, having set this all up, I’ll today write about the […]
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Bath Area Family YMCA celebrated and foam shut down
Before we celebrate the Bath Area Family YMCA for their Nonprofit of the Year Award and their continued success of creating solutions that help build community, I have an important community update to share. There was a piece of really big news that came across my desk a week or so ago that is really […]
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Letters to the editor: Maine on tariffs; Trump misrepresented; a quick quiz; be open
Maine officials on Trump’s tariffs I applaud Sen. Susan Collins vote to support the removal of Canadian tariffs, but it doesn’t go far enough. Tariffs are a regressive tax that will injure working class people. Since President Trump is talking about using tariff revenues to justify further tax cuts for the rich, it is a […]
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Jet fuel spill at Brunswick Landing cleaned up
Brunswick Landing is awaiting water-testing results from the Maine Department of Environmental Protection.
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The two Brunswick men lost with the Titanic
In April 1912, one of the greatest maritime disasters in history claimed the lives of 1,517 people. Among these lost souls were two men — a father and son — from Brunswick. By the start of the Bowdoin College winter semester in 1912, 21-year-old Richard Fraser White had already completed all of his academic requirements […]
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From the Chocolate Church: Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Born to Run’ to be performed in its entirety
My wife loves the Boss. She got one of my college friends to perform “Thunder Road” at our wedding, not long after the “Hava Nagila.” In the COVID years, “Born to Run,” the title song from the groundbreaking 1975 album played on repeat while our then-3-year-old ran laps around our small ranch house. Next Friday, […]
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Change is inevitable — a farewell column
“Change is inevitable and you won’t like it.” That’s a saying I developed as I experienced the world changing at an accelerated rate, while I could not keep up. One change is occurring in the media. When I first became a freelance journalist almost 60 years ago, people mostly got their news from the print […]
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Imploring Gov. Mills not to apologize to President Trump
To grovel, or not to grovel, that is the question: Whether ’tis nobler in the mind of state to suffer The lawful slings and arrows of statutory duty, Or to struggle against Falstaffian trumpeters, And by opposing, send them to oblivion. To apologize? Why? Where is the insult? To follow the law is an insult!? […]
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Brunswick Landing cleaning up jet fuel spill
The Midcoast Regional Redevelopment Authority said the 55-gallon spill does not pose a public risk.
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Watch ‘The Silence of the Lambs’ on Lincoln Theater’s big screen
Before “Gone Girl” and “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,” there was “The Silence of the Lambs” — the psychological thriller that redefined women in crime films. Lincoln Theater in Damariscotta invites audiences to revisit this Oscar-winning masterpiece on the big screen, followed by a discussion with Screen Thoughts film critic Christine Merser, at 6 p.m. […]