I have found that we tend to get back what we put out, in terms of how we treat others. In my career of nearly 40 years I have run many businesses. I have also worked for many people that ran businesses and one of the many important lessons I have learned is that everything […]

What Mr. Dunlap did not write in his editorial supporting organ donation is the fact that an organ from a dead person is useless. The transplantable organ must come from a living human. This is why the term “brain death” was invented. Removing the organ from a living human kills the donor. No one has […]

My name is Debi Davis and I was a candidate for Biddeford as State Representative in District 11. The Mayor has appointed another man to the city council, Mr. Stephen St. Cyr. Congratulations to Mr. St. Cyr, I hope he will serve us well. However, I think the Mayor missed an opportunity here. After all, […]

Sen. Dutremble held a meeting called a Legislative Forum on Saturday, March 12 at the Community Center in Biddeford. He said he sent emails out and advertised in the newspaper. The agenda was an outline of Gov. LePage’s budget on tax reform and relief plan whereby moving Maine from Poverty to Prosperity. Approximately seven people […]

After a very successful Silent Auction on March 28, the Arundel Historical Society would like to thank those who made it possible. First and foremost to Jeff and Dana Hevey for making the Dutch Elm Golf Course Clubhouse available to us. They were most supportive and very gracious in helping us to set up and […]

Spring is in the air. You can see signs of it everywhere ”“ the grass seed commercials on TV, the Miracle-Gro commercials on TV, the allergy commercials on TV, my baseball team losing on TV and the grocery stores selling plastic lawn furniture once again. Sue said something about flowers and birds, but I really […]

The Major League Baseball season started the night before last. That was once a major event in the lives of a significant number of Americans. But even here in the heart of die-hard Red Sox Nation, a surprisingly large bloc of otherwise rational sports fans, which is perhaps a contradiction in terms, barely acknowledged the […]

Words are powerful and have consequences. The same is true for the absence of a word. In this case, a typographical error ”“ the omission of the 3-letter word “and” will cost Mainers $250 million in higher energy bills. Several weeks ago, two of the three commissioners on the state’s Public Utilities Commission (PUC) seized […]

The sale of people’s identity and personal information over the internet is big business. The Federal Trade Commission’s website at www.FTC.gov lists hundreds of data information broker type websites exposing and selling your personal information online. You may be amazed to find that your name, current address, previous addresses, telephone number, date of birth, the […]