The Falcons fall short in the state final to Old Town, but vow to be back in 2022.
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Guest column: Maine’s next solar frontier
Community solar farms hold great potential benefits for Maine – if the state does more to guide the industry’s growth.
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John Micek: GOP hits a new low in insurrection denial
So just how desperate are some Republicans to deny the reality of the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol? Desperate enough that 21 of them voted against a slam-dunk of a bill earlier this week awarding one of the country’s highest civilian honors, the Congressional Gold Medal, to the law enforcement officers who defended […]
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Commentary: How Black writers and journalists have wielded punctuation in their activism
Using punctuation and capitalization as a form of protest doesn’t exactly scream radicalism. But in debates over racial justice, punctuation can carry a lot of weight. During the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020, mainstream news organizations grappled with whether to capitalize the first letter of “black” when referring to Black people. Of course, writing […]
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Letters: Preserve downtown Brunswick’s trees
Gary Lawless of Gulf of Maine Books makes a number of good points in his June 16 letter to The Times Record. Chief among them is his sense that the current plan for the downtown sidewalk project, which involves removing several prominent trees, is based on an engineering model that ignores the impact the results […]
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Dick Polman: In the war on American democracy, journalists can’t be neutral
On a podcast the other day, national political reporter Thomas Edsall analyzed the mounting threat of Republican authoritarianism and posed a great question: “Trump and the Republican party have created a real dilemma for the media… A party of sedition is trying to (enact) rules that even when it loses, it wins… We have a […]
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Commentary: Nurturing dads raise emotionally intelligent kids – helping make society more respectful and equitable
When my oldest son, now nearly 13, was born in July of 2008, I thought I could easily balance my career and my desire to be far more engaged at home than my father and his generation were. I was wrong. Almost immediately, I noticed how social policies, schools and health care systems all make […]
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Letters: Maine ratepayers need a consumer-owned utility; Support carbon dividends
Maine ratepayers need a consumer-owned utility Last week while I was working in my yard, I was approached by a gentleman coming up the driveway asking if I had heard about the “power grab.” He handed me an ominous-looking flyer printed with a stop sign and several troubling claims about LD 1708. The bill, if […]
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Giving Voice: Brunswick agencies came together, supporting the most vulnerable during pandemic
It’s no secret that the COVID-19 pandemic has changed a lot about how we live our lives. Over the last year-and-a-half or so, we have all felt the social, economic, physical and emotional toll of this virus. We have been inundated with reports on death-tolls and updates on the state of our economy; we have […]
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David Treadwell: Pine Grove Cemetery celebrates 200th anniversary
Many area residents know that Pine Grove Cemetery, located on Bath Road adjacent to the Bowdoin College campus, is the final resting place of Joshua Chamberlain, hero at the Battle of Little Round Top during the Civil War, governor of Maine and Bowdoin College president. Chamberlain’s wife Francis (“Fanny”), an accomplished painter and musician, shares […]