The Arrowsic Board of Selectmen will review the decision at their bi-weekly meetings and vote to either open the conservation area or keep it closed.
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Letter: Maine senators shouldn’t support ‘heroes’ bailout
One trillion. A thousand billion. Ten thousand million. An almost incomprehensible number. Light travels at 186,000 miles per second or 5.88 trillion miles in a year. To analogize with money, you would have to spend $186,000 per second to burn through $5.88 trillion in a year. But our government is poised to do just that. […]
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Letter: Not enough words for how wrong Beem is
While I am used to the vitriol, deceit and truth twisting which characterize Edgar Allen Beem’s columns, his “The selfish minority” piece achieves new highs for mendacity and hypocrisy. But maybe I am being too judgmental. Perhaps he is deserving of pity, not scorn, as he seems to have difficulty in assessing reality and a […]
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Letter: Beem’s bias prompts fact checking on ‘Trump virus’
After reading Edgar Allen Beem’s April 16 column, “Trump virus,” full of Beem’s usual vitriol and hatred for all things Trump, I felt compelled to respond. Here are the facts: Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s report on Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act abuse found “apparent errors or inadequately supported facts” in 29 FBI FISA applications: “at least […]
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Over Easy: Notes from the underground in the time of coronavirus
March 17 – Three days I have been in voluntary quarantine here in my condo. I’m not complaining. I’m too old for the front lines and the sight of a needle makes me nauseous. But stay at home? Piece of cake, as they say. I miss my wife, who was visiting her mother when the […]
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Over Easy: My life with doctors
For as long as I can remember, I have loved and admired those in the medical profession. Dr. Goldman was our family doctor and he made house calls, which was normal in those days (a time known as Early Pleistocene). I remember how he sat on the bed and placed the cold stethoscope on my […]
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Over Easy: Maine in the time of COVID-19
After weeks of shelter-in-place quarantine I imagine a lot of married couples will be taking separate vacations this summer, if summer is not canceled. The photos on the news emphasize the far-reaching nature of the pandemic – Paris abandoned, Times Square dark, China closed down, empty streets a testament to hard times still to come. […]
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Over Easy: Late night at the laundromat
A while back our clothes dryer died after who knows how many years, or decades, of faithful service. We thus found ourselves in a time warp back to those days of youth, before kids and jobs and possessions and insurance. Back then we lived more in the moment, dealing with whatever came up right then […]
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Over Easy: Spring is/isn’t here, can I take a message?
“Spring is just around the corner,” they say. “They” being the National Weather Service. The corner being March 1, when meteorological winter is over and meteorological spring begins. Spring is the worst season in New England and despite T.S. Eliot’s admonishment about April being the cruelest month, in New England March gives it a run […]
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Over Easy: Baseball is back, baby
It’s that time of year again, when once again your dreams arise buoyed with hope in your breast and a song in your heart. I could go on forever, but you get the idea. Baseball is back; the full 160-something-game regular baseball season begins March 26. The way I like my baseball is over easy, […]