Mid Coast Hospital Melina Marie Lovejoy, born April 12 to Ashlee Lovejoy and Jared Lovejoy of Lisbon. Grandparents are Bridgette Chapman of Fresno, Texas, and Sharon and Paul Lovejoy of Brunswick. Great-grandparents are Harriet Neptune of Sidney, Eva Vincent of Sulphur, Louisiana, and Robert Boring of Maryville, Tennessee. Xavier Loring Pushard, born April 14 to […]
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Briefs
PORTLAND South Portland student gets $1,500 DiPietro Scholarship Portland Water District Board of Trustees President Guy Cote recently presented Keith Nelson of South Portland with the 2019 DiPietro Scholarship. The $1,500 DiPietro Scholarship is awarded annually to a student in PWD’s service area. Nelson, the first in his family to attend college, is pursuing […]
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Letter to the editor: Pineland could treat animals better
Over the past few years, my young children and I have visited Pineland Farms’ family education program. We are saddened that the cows and calves are not being treated as well as they could be. When we visited in February, the dairy cows were chained by their necks in individual stalls, unable to go outside […]
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Community Meals
MONDAY Free breakfast, including eggs, bacon, pancakes, french toast and pastries, as well as coffee, tea, juice and milk. Open to all. Chestnut Street Baptist Church, 29 Chestnut St., Camden. 542-0360. TUESDAY Lunch, noon. Free and open to all. 409 Cumberland Ave., Portland. Provided by Wayside Food Programs and hosted by Avesta Housing. 775-4939. Dinner, […]
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Events
WINDHAM Church will sponsor e-waste recycling event Windham Hill United Church of Christ will sponsor an Electronic Waste Recycling event from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at the Windham Mall entrance at Veterans Memorial Drive, off Route 302, next to Friendly’s. All monetary donations generated will be used to cover the cost of organizing […]
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Letter to the editor: Mueller report more than ‘unflattering portrayal’
It is time for Sen. Susan Collins to retire. She pledged to serve only two terms, in order to make a contribution and then come home to let someone else take her place. She broke that promise and many Mainers, including me, believe she has broken another pledge: to be an advocate for her constituents. […]
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Signings, etc.
Author Lucille Stott will present her new book, “Saving Thoreau’s Birthplace: How Citizens Rallied to Bring Henry Out of the Woods.” The book chronicles the efforts of the many people who worked tirelessly for many years to keep Henry David Thoreau’s birth house from being lost to history. WHEN: 2 p.m. Sunday, May 5 WHERE: […]
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Letter to the editor: Glossing over of harms to Native Americans just part of U.S. revisionism
So, now it’s official: Columbus Day will, in Maine anyway, be called Indigenous Peoples Day? Too bad the rest of the country couldn’t do that – but that’s Washington, D.C,. for you. Of course, they won’t do that – and to Mainers, I say, “It’s too little, too late. Same as giving Vietnam veterans some […]
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Letter to the editor: Post-9/11 wars have benefited only dictators, corporations
The notion that America can save itself by giving up its role in governing the world was based on the premise that dictators and industry would not then fill that void. Well, we are about 20 years into an experiment in this philosophy and things are going terribly. In 2016, Boston University political scientist Neta […]
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Letter to the editor: Vaccine, ‘red flag’ bills show government’s appetite for power
It seems our liberties slip away more every year. This spring, there are two alarming bills in the Maine Legislature. The first is the “red flag” bill (L.D. 1312), which gives government unprecedented power to confiscate a person’s firearms before they are proven guilty of any crime. In the U.S., we have the due process […]