Most local residents already know that the Biddeford-Saco area is quickly becoming a destination for innovative dining, entertainment and cultural opportunities. People continue to flock to our region for our diverse and award-winning restaurants; our inviting microbreweries and distilleries; our thriving theater, entertainment and arts scene; and our energetic and entrepreneurial community spirit, especially embodied […]

What’s happening in the 50 states of the United States of America? What’s going on in small towns in America? What’s the latest information between the East Coast and the West Coast? North, South, East, West — what’s the news? Via the Internet by way of online newspapers Americans can reach out and read about […]

The town garbagemen are going to be surprised next Tuesday when they make their weekly drive down our street and see a tightly-packed green trash bag at the end of my driveway……for the first time since late December. I’m off to a promising start in 2019 regarding household waste disposal. It took four officially embossed […]

Dropped in at O’Dontal Dental the other day. You know, regular tooth check, cleaning, whatever Perry says to do, I do. Quicker that way. But this particular dentist isn’t nearly as feared as others. He’s … entertaining. Dr. Perry O’Dontal worked his way through tooth school by acting, and you might be able to take […]

Many voters consider themselves to be political moderates, not partisans on the right or left.  To appeal for their votes, candidates claim they can “work across the aisle.” But do voters really favor political leaders who will sometimes vote in line with their wishes and sometimes against them?  Is it possible to be a moderate […]

Actually, I am not satisfied merely if my children are better than I am, for I have set that bar rather low. At the very least, my goal is that my children will be above average, better than their peers. I am not speaking of academic ability. We are drowning in evidence of academic strengths […]

President Trump often complains that he is the victim of “presidential harassment” — or, as he sometimes puts it, “PRESIDENTIAL HARASSMENT!” “After more than two years of Presidential Harassment, the only things that have been proven is that Democrats and others broke the law,” Trump tweeted on March 3. “Presidential Harassment by ‘crazed’ Democrats at […]

“I believe that for a moment I thought the explosion might set fire to the atmosphere and thus finish the Earth, even though I knew that this was not possible.” These words of Manhattan Project physicist Emilio Segre, quoted by Richard Rhodes in his book The Making of the Atomic Bomb, refer to the Trinity blast on […]