Hometown boy Frank Kellogg, who had just graduated from the seminary up there in Bangor, was supposed to deliver his first sermon at the church on a recent weekend. No one is quite sure how it happened, but the special invitations to the service went out to the wrong people, with the wrong date and […]

Hometown boy Frank Kellogg, who had just graduated from the seminary up there in Bangor, was supposed to deliver his first sermon at the church on a recent weekend. No one is quite sure how it happened, but the special invitations to the service went out to the wrong people, with the wrong date and […]

Let’s try to set aside all this anger, profanity, racism, sexism, misinformation and political posturing. In other words, let’s not discuss Paul LePage, governor, self-appointed education commissioner and giant bedbug infestation. Instead, let’s turn our attention to a matter of significance to every Maine taxpayer, namely how much money state government is wasting in trying […]

Leap Day, which happens every four years and is the main attraction of Leap Year, is coming up Feb. 29. While many may view the extra 24-hour period as just another winter day to overcome in the quest to reach the promised land of spring, the editorial staff at Current Publishing recently got to wondering […]

The Southern Maine Agency on Aging, based in Scarborough, frequently offers a seminar called “Welcome to Medicare” at various locations in southern Maine, as well as in the agency’s Scarborough office. On Tuesday, March 1, the seminar will be offered at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church at 919 Roosevelt Trail in Windham, from 10 […]

If surveillance cameras located on lampposts, buldings, at road intersections and just about everywhere else didn’t already make us feel like we’re constantly on “Candid Camera,” the news last November of a group videotaping voters as they signed a petition at a Portland polling place brought the intrusion to a new level. Project Dirigo, a […]

During a recent snowstorm I did what most well-informed people do in these media-centric times – I sat and watched television and my laptop screen. On this particular morning, the news anchor went from one snowbound reporter to another. The reporters were standing at strategic places in the station’s viewership area, all bundled up in […]

Free Shawn Scott. I mean that metaphorically, of course, since Scott, a Las Vegas gambling developer, isn’t currently incarcerated. My call for his liberation has less to do with shackles and chains and more to do with him being constrained by legalities in his effort to build a casino in York County. I admit that […]

This week is another edition of “We’re all thumbs,” in which the editorial staff of Current Publishing picks proverbial winners and losers, heroes and villains from recent news stories: Thumbs DOWN to those who betted and bellyached against the Broncos. Patriots fans can take comfort in knowing it took a Super Bowl-winning team to take […]