I am writing today on behalf of my daughter, Mariah O’Driscoll. She is a sophomore at Sanford High School. Mariah was recently chosen, out of a number of students, to represent the United States as a student ambassador. Mariah is a very self-disciplined, energetic, kind and smart young lady. She was chosen as part of […]

During the past 18 years of my life, since becoming a parent, I have become very reflective on the joyous task of raising children. I, like most people I’ve met, find it a blessed responsibility, one that speaks to the miraculous and mysterious events that simply sweep us along, like a raging river of toil, […]

Connecticut Post, Dec. 9: Questions about race relations in America cannot and should not be contained to Ferguson, Mo., and Staten Island, N.Y., where grand juries recently declined to indict white police officers in the killing of two unarmed black men. In Connecticut, high school students are joining the national movement to raise awareness by […]

Sanford residents have a fantastic opportunity to get a brand new, state-of-the-art high school and technical center, and they shouldn’t let it pass them by. After spending years on the state’s school construction program list, it’s finally Sanford’s turn. It would be a travesty ”“ yes, a travesty ”“ if voters turned down the $92 […]

President Obama’s unilateral executive action on immigration will make hundreds of thousands, perhaps more than a million, illegal immigrants eligible for federal transfer payments. That will be done primarily through two widely used programs ”“ the Earned Income Tax Credit, or EITC, and the Additional Child Tax Credit, or ACTC. As it turns out, those […]

The Knights of Columbus of Biddeford, Saco, Lyman and Old Orchard Beach would like to extend warm wishes and a big thank you to the community and parishioners of Good Shepherd Parish for their support for our 16th annual free Thanksgiving dinner held this year at Most Holy Trinity hall in Saco. The outpouring was […]

Gov. Paul LePage now has the opportunity to shape Maine utility regulation. During any single term of the Maine governor, opportunities arise to make two of the three appointments to the Public Utilities Commission. Now, LePage can have three commissioners of his own choice. What’s unusual is that LePage can make two appointments at once, […]

From reading all the editorial commentaries for the last few years, it appears that there are only two scenarios represented. Could there be a third or even more? One is that the Democrats introduce legislation and the Republicans refuse to compromise. The liberal-controlled media would never portray this as compromising their base principles of small […]