Friday’s rain washed out many events at the Skowhegan State Fair, soaked the entire central Maine region and continued the wet trend this summer.
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Skowhegan State Fair, most of central Maine succumb to soaking rain
Friday’s rain washed out many events at the Skowhegan State Fair, soaked the entire central Maine region and continued the wet trend this summer.
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POLITICS AND OTHER MISTAKES – Family feud
It’s difficult to believe this twisted wreckage was once a powerful political party, capable of completely dominating Maine government. To view the sad remains left in the wake of bitter infighting among its hardcore factions that rendered it incapable of winning elections is a lesson in the dangers of hubris. Not to mention the consequences […]
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ON THE RIGHT LANE – Wicked world of Washington
I cannot believe how many rewrites I have done for this week’s column due to breaking scandals committed within and by our federal government. I see our country moving away from the beliefs of its Founding Fathers and the foundation upon which the United States was founded, which is taxation without representation. I personally have […]
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ESPECIALLY FOR SENIORS: Back-to-school memories
August is my favorite month – it’s in between summer and fall and brings us hot days and cool nights. When I was a kid, it seemed like the month would never end, I was so anxious to begin another school year. School always started the day after Labor Day – and there was a […]
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DIAMOND IN THE ROUGH: The dirt on ‘clean’ elections
Many people don’t know that legislative campaigns in Maine are paid for by the state – campaign signs, political mailings, brochures, etc., all paid with state funds. Full public financing of political campaigns for state offices in Maine, known as the Maine Clean Elections Act, has been in effect since being passed by the voters […]
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LIFE IN THE SUBURBS: Lessons from a life well-lived
Sad news from ZIP code 04074 today. Cousin Chris died. Cancer. Age 53. Damn. Always confounds me that our society has not yet found a cure. Disease so prevalent. Good people working on it. Damn. Funeral was a bummer. Life has many accepted story lines. One is that a person is not supposed to die […]
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EDITORIAL: With athletic rewards come risks, as well
On Monday in Augusta, Windham’s American Legion baseball team came out of the loser’s bracket to win the double-elimination state tournament with a 9-1 win over Westbrook. The team now moves on to the Northeast Regional tournament, an eight-team, double-elimination tournament that starts Thursday. For the team’s high-school-aged players, that leaves little time to prepare […]
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EDITORIAL: With athletic rewards come risks, as well
On Monday in Augusta, Windham’s American Legion baseball team came out of the loser’s bracket to win the double-elimination state tournament with a 9-1 win over Westbrook. The team now moves on to the Northeast Regional tournament, an eight-team, double-elimination tournament that starts Thursday. For the team’s high-school-aged players, that leaves little time to prepare […]
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DOWN THE ROAD A PIECE – Bottleneck study strains belief
I don’t think it was Einstein, but someone equally smart once said, “Everything is relative. From a small plane an uncle looks like an ant.” Like I said, I don’t know who first said that, but I’ve always assumed that the person was immediately taken to the woodshed and soundly thrashed for such a play […]