Local tea shops, juiceries and herbalists told us what they recommend their customers drink when they are feeling under the (cold, wet, winter) weather.
February 2020
Maine Gardener: Here’s a gardening project while you wait for tomato season
You can grow tiny, tasty (and trendy) microgreens inside under a grow light.
Dine Out Maine: At Back Bay Grill, the food is still stellar, along with the service
Four decades in, the dining room could use an update, but the excellent food makes up for any decorative shortcomings.
Letter to the editor: Pass L.D. 2094 to restore tribes’ rights
This is our issue, too. The tribes in the land we call Maine (Penobscot Nation, Passamaquoddy Tribe, Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians and Aroostook Band of Micmacs) deserve the rights, privileges, powers, duties and immunities similar to those of other federally recognized Indian tribes within the United States. I understand that this is not an […]
Advocates seek reforms to state retirement system for disabled workers
Many agree the hurdles are too high in Maine; data show applications plummeted since 2015.
Letter to the editor: L.D. 2094 not the best path for Passamaquoddy
The overhaul of the Indian land claims settlement act ‘will at best maintain the status quo among the tribes and may make it worse.’
Letter to the editor: You’d have to be deranged not to be angry at Trump, Collins
Re: “Jim Fossel: Liberals afflicted by Collins Derangement Syndrome” (Feb. 9): Columnist Jim Fossel says that liberals like myself were deranged for being angry at President George W. Bush for taking us to war based on a pack of lies, that we are deranged for being angry at President Trump for trying to bribe a […]
Fingerprinting set to begin for employees in child care
Former Gov. Paul LePage’s refusal to implement the requirement ultimately cost the state $800,000 in federal grants.
Inspired by his mom, North Berwick native on a mission to make space travel sustainable
Kyle Flanagan learns a lesson from his artist mother and turns his attention toward developing a sustainable space rocket.
How Maine’s members of Congress voted last week
Among other legislation, the House passed the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations for Disaster Relief and Puerto Rico Disaster Tax Relief Act.