As a kid in grammar school I enjoyed reading articles in The Weekly Reader about what life would be like in the future. Of course, I stated reading those articles in the late ’50s and “the future” they referred to was the distant 1970s and 1980s. According to these futuristic predictors, we could expect to […]
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DOWN THE ROAD A PIECE: Flying into the future
As a kid in grammar school I enjoyed reading articles in The Weekly Reader about what life would be like in the future. Of course, I stated reading those articles in the late ’50s and “the future” they referred to was the distant 1970s and 1980s. According to these futuristic predictors, we could expect to […]
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DOWN THE ROAD A PIECE: Flying into the future
As a kid in grammar school I enjoyed reading articles in The Weekly Reader about what life would be like in the future. Of course, I stated reading those articles in the late ’50s and “the future” they referred to was the distant 1970s and 1980s. According to these futuristic predictors, we could expect to […]
Posted inAmerican Journal, Lakes Region Weekly
DOWN THE ROAD A PIECE: Flying into the future
As a kid in grammar school I enjoyed reading articles in The Weekly Reader about what life would be like in the future. Of course, I stated reading those articles in the late ’50s and “the future” they referred to was the distant 1970s and 1980s. According to these futuristic predictors, we could expect to […]
Posted inAmerican Journal, Lakes Region Weekly
DOWN THE ROAD A PIECE: Flying into the future
As a kid in grammar school I enjoyed reading articles in The Weekly Reader about what life would be like in the future. Of course, I stated reading those articles in the late ’50s and “the future” they referred to was the distant 1970s and 1980s. According to these futuristic predictors, we could expect to […]
Posted inAmerican Journal, Lakes Region Weekly
ESPEICIALLY FOR SENIORS:As temps fall, warm up
Like me, some of my women friends live alone in an older house – you know, those neat old places with the drafty windows and doors that don’t close quite as tight as they should. Even the most “unhandy” person can do a few simple tasks that will save heat. While it’s true that fuel […]
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LETTERS: Grateful for re-election
Several weeks ago, I was honored and humbled to have been re-elected by the people of Gorham and Scarborough to represent them in the Maine House. I am deeply grateful for the faith and trust that you have placed in me. Since my first campaign for the Maine House in 2012, I have knocked on […]
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INSIGHTS: Scarborough deserves more
The Scarborough School Board has reached out to the community with two letters to the editor within recent weeks; both letters, although submitted by different parties, were almost word-for-word duplicates of each other and offered no new solutions to the question of how can Scarborough residents actually voice their opinion to the School Board and […]
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GREETINGS FROM ZIP CODE 04074: I’m thankful, sort of
Thanksgiving is over. I survived. Hallelujah. Relatives gone. Refrigerator rendered useless by now acting as warehouse for 37 plastic containers of peas, summer squash pieces and canned cranberry slices. I’m not just a curmudgeon, though. Here is what makes me grateful as 2014 winds to a close: I’m thankful for Ron Kelly. He has been […]
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POLITICS & OTHER MISTAKES: Wrong ‘em, boyo
According to H.L. Mencken, “There is always an easy solution to every problem, neat, plausible and wrong.” Nevertheless, the Maine public insists its elected leaders deal with the state’s dilemmas by coming up with quick fixes that don’t involve lots of moving parts, don’t cost much money and make sense – so long as nobody […]