Plourde, 21, finished with an even par 71 to keep ahead of top challengers Ruby Haylock and Kristin Kannegieser.
Times Record
Bowdoin College’s Peary MacMillan Arctic Museum to host outdoor, in-person events
The Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum will remain closed to the public throughout the summer, but will host outdoor events. “We miss seeing visitors and sharing our resources with the public, so following an age-old Arctic summer tradition, we have relocated some of our operations to a tent on the Coe Quad (between Smith Union and Moulton […]
Ararat 9U Cal Ripken All-Stars finish runner-up in state tournament
Ararat emerges from loser’s bracket with 4 consecutive victories to reach state title game.
John Micek: Biden threw down the gauntlet in the battle over voting rights
It was hard to miss the challenge that President Joe Biden posed to Americans as he burned through a fiery speech at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia this week. Led by “bullies and peddlers of lies,” Republicans in Congress and state legislatures around the country are engaged in an historical assault on the right […]
Carl Golden: Fauci can defeat the virus, but not the conspiracy theories
About 34 million people have fallen ill with COVID-19 in the U.S. and nearly 610,000 have died. Protection is readily at hand, but is going to waste in storage and in some cases while millions refuse to avail themselves of it. Americans, usually among the most responsive people on the globe when confronted by a […]
Brunswick-area summer food program gets underway
It’s a warm, sunny Tuesday and I’m sitting outside of Curtis Memorial Library. I have a crate of milk to my left and an assortment of lunches on my right. As kids begin to arrive at my table, I greet them, ask them about their days (which they always have an enthusiastic response to), and […]
Commentary: High-tide flood risk is accelerating, putting coastal economies at risk
As sea level rises, it can be easy to miss the subtlety of higher water. It’s much harder to overlook saltwater more frequently flooding streets, impeding daily life and making existing problems worse. The frequency of high-tide flooding along the U.S. coasts has doubled since 2000, and it’s expected to increase five to 15 times […]
Gordon Weil: Dems get vaccinated; GOP not so much
Vaccinations can tell us something about voting. The key finding is the better a state has been vaccinated, the more likely it is to vote for the Democratic presidential candidate. Digging a little deeper into the data may even show which states are likely to influence, if not downright determine, the outcome of the next presidential election. This could make political pundits look good. President Joe Biden […]
Commentary: The US withdraws from Afghanistan after 20 years of war: 4 questions about this historic moment
Mark R. Jacobson, a foreign policy expert at the Maxwell School at Syracuse University, served in Afghanistan as a reserve officer in 2006 and then returned in a civilian role, working as a foreign policy adviser to Gen. Stanley McChrystal and later as the deputy NATO senior civilian representative in Afghanistan. As both a scholar […]
David Treadwell: A night of hope in a Brunswick tavern
There were 700 students in my sophomore class at Parkersburg High School in West Virginia in 1957. None of them were African-American. There were 225 students in my senior class at Mount Pleasant High School in Delaware in 1959. None of them were African-American. There were 200 students in my freshman class at Bowdoin College […]