Award-winning Canadian guitarist Jesse Cook hits the stage at Boothbay Harbor’s historic opera house on Friday, June 10. A career spanning 25 years has brought Canadian guitarist Jesse Cook multiple accolades including an Acoustic Guitar Magazine ‘Player’s Choice Silver Award,’ 11 Juno Award nominations, A Gemini Award and 10 platinum and gold studio albums. Cook […]
June 2022
Posted inTimes Record Opinion
Gordon Weil: Gun control as key partisan issue
Common good vs. individual rights
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Your Land: Why I am a local optimist
Like many, I have a set morning routine — coffee, a word game, the news. And, I suspect, like many these days, I often emerge into my morning’s work a little wobbly from this immersion; over-caffeination aside, I’ll let you guess which of these three pillars of morning shakes me. This morning was no different […]
Posted inScarborough Leader, Southern Maine Weeklies
Visions for a new primary school being discussed at June 6 community forum
Join Scarborough Schools on Monday, June 6 from 6 to 8 p.m. for a virtual community forum presentation on the K-8 Strategic Project & New Primary School. This is a follow-up to the first community forum held virtually on May 11, with a focus on Educational Visioning for a new primary school in Scarborough. The […]
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Our View: We’ve got to listen to the kids struggling with their mental health
Depression and self-harm are on the rise, showing that adolescents aren’t getting what they need.
Posted inLetters
Letter to the editor: Keep Cumberland County DA Sahrbeck in office
Owning the restaurant in front of the Cumberland County Courthouse for 30 years, I get a good pulse on how great a job our DA Jonathan Sahrback is doing. His ADA’S love him – he kept up morale there through two plus years of COVID when no one was allowed into the building. I feed […]
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Hospice of Southern Maine welcomes new hires
SCARBOROUGH — Hospice of Southern Maine welcomes a number of new employees in several departments. Nick Paquette was hired as HSM’s Finance and Healthcare Operations director. In this role, Paquette is responsible for managing and overseeing the agency’s financial and patient services, including budgeting, policies and internal controls, and patient intake and billing services. “We’re […]
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Giving Voice: Summer program to help fight childhood hunger in Maine
School meals are an important and reliable source of food for many children in Maine, and when the school year draws to a close, many students and their families lose access to this extremely important resource. This is why the Summer Food Service Program was created — to fill the meal gap while students are […]
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Letters: Topsham shouldn’t follow Brunswick’s crosswalk example; Vote Sartoris for Cumberland County DA; and more
Topsham shouldn’t follow Brunswick’s crosswalk example For some time, I and others have often referred to Portland as North Massachusetts. Their progressive policies have isolated themselves from the rest of the more moderate state of Maine. It seems, however, that Brunswick is slowly turning into North Portland. With incredible frequency, Brunswick is mimicking Portland at […]