The program called SNAP has just come to our attention and we’re sharing that information this week. SNAP stands for Senior Neighborhood Awareness Program and it’s made available through Volunteers in Police Services, a part of the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office. Started in 2008, the Volunteers in Police Services is a group of enthusiastic individuals […]

Welcome to a new feature of this column called “How Much Government Stupidity Would You Like Today? Take All You Want Because You Paid For It.” In this forum, elected officials and bureaucrats from across the ideological spectrum will demonstrate conclusively that it’s only by coincidence that they get their shoes on the appropriate feet […]

Peter Baker, a social worker and manager of the Helpline for the Alzheimer’s Association, Maine Chapter, will present a seminar Thursday, Feb. 18, at the Stewart Adult Day Center, 74 Lunt Road, Falmouth. The topic will be, “Effective Communication Strategies with those Diagnosed with Alzheimer’s or Dementia.” Baker will provide attendees with new ways to […]

Peter Baker, a social worker and manager of the Helpline for the Alzheimer’s Association, Maine Chapter, will present a seminar Thursday, Feb. 18, at the Stewart Adult Day Center, 74 Lunt Road, Falmouth. The topic will be, “Effective Communication Strategies with those Diagnosed with Alzheimer’s or Dementia.” Baker will provide attendees with new ways to […]

This week is another edition of “We’re all thumbs,” in which the editorial staff of Current Publishing picks the winners and losers, heroes and villains from recent news stories: • Thumbs UP to the Scarborough Police Department’s effort to get opioid addicts the help they need through Operation HOPE, a volunteer-driven drug rehabilitation program that […]

With our neighbor’s first-in-the-nation primary fast approaching, there’s been all kinds of stories in the media about politics and politicians. Recently, I started thinking about some of the great politicians in Maine’s past. Did you know that former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and Portland native Thomas Brackett “Czar” Reed stood 6 feet […]

In a recent column, U.S. Sen. Susan Collins focuses on the financial exploitation of senior citizens in Maine and coincidentally, Maine’s Legal Services for the Elderly has recently been airing television commercials about this very issue. Collins uses a troubling example in her column to point out the very real problem: “In late 2012, a […]

In an oft-quoted poem, Robert Frost wrote about “the road not taken.” In our town most winters, folks are more likely to talk about “the road not plowed.” Not so much this winter – yet. But we all know this season’s snow will find us any minute now. I know it’s not easy being a […]