“No one has learned the meaning of life until he has surrendered his ego to the service of his fellow men.” — Beran Wolfe Those who are acknowledged here have, with extended hands, reached out and helped their fellow man in their time of need: Lloyd Hunt, Jocelyn Beaudoin, Vicky Toher, Mary from Saco, Leeward […]

The Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife claims that bear complaints are low and holding steady in Maine, while the bear populations and bear complaints in Washington, Oregon and Colorado ”“ which passed referendums between 1992 and 1996, banning hounding, baiting, and trapping ”“ “have constrained the bear manager’s ability to control the number […]

Gov. Paul LePage is a middle-class, French-Canadian, hard-working, honest man. As governor of Maine, he does not use rhetoric in his speeches. The dictionary’s meaning of rhetoric is “language that is intended to influence people and that may not be honest or reasonable.” Other politicians who are smooth-talking have been conditioned to use this rhetoric, […]

Regarding splitting the vote, in 2010, I preferred Eliot Cutler but voted for Libby Mitchell because the polls claimed she was way ahead of Cutler, neck and neck with Paul LePage. I erred by doing the early vote and went with Mitchell so as not to allow LePage to get in; so much for that […]

She doesn’t remember this, but I do. It was 1994, and kids were still wearing neon socks. I was 12, she was 11, and though we attended different grade schools, we were both part of a program called SPARK, which was basically an advanced curriculum for so-called “gifted” students ”“ boys and girls who exhibited […]

It’s with enthusiasm I add my voice to those in support of George Hogan for Old Orchard Beach’s representative in Augusta. George is a man of integrity and ability, and has a history of getting things done for Old Orchard Beach. Thanks to George, we look out on a bay under the jurisdiction of our […]

Opposers of the Fair Bear Hunt initiative like to claim that it is the first step in a master plan by the Humane Society of the U.S. to ban all hunting. That may be one of their principles, but they know spending time and effort to bring it about is unnecessary. Hunting will die a […]

Two decades ago, Boston Harbor was widely considered the dirtiest harbor in America. Sewage and pollution from local industry made it unsafe to fish or swim in the harbor or the Charles River. But the Clean Water Act, passed in 1972, did what it was intended to do and spurred a cleanup that has made […]