“Artie” ”“ I’m hearing the name everywhere lately, and I have to say I don’t really know him. Perhaps I really don’t have to. Reading up on his philosophy on running a store and company with large inventory and logistics requirements pretty much tells what he’s about, and why his employees, managers and associates alike […]

There is a Trojan horse galloping through Lower Village and its name is Kennebunk Harbor Hotel. At the Kennebunk Planning Board meeting, Monday, July 28, the proposal for the Kennebunk Harbor Hotel situated on the Kennebunk River within the Coastal Residential and Shoreland Overlay Zones was met with skepticism by board members and by the public. […]

We’re past the July 4 celebrations and the All-Star Break. NFL training camps haven’t started. Congress is poised to recess for August ”“ the pause before the storm leading up to the midterm elections. “Pause” is the operative word. Right now, I want to pause and consider where we are and where we’re going. I […]

What going to happen to Market Basket? That’s been the hot topic for nearly two weeks since staff members at the company’s corporate office, warehouse workers and company drivers in Tewksbury, Massachusetts walked off the job. Those workers and others have been protesting the firing of CEO Arthur T. Demoulas, who has led the company […]

Back in the mid-1970s, I was chairman of the road and sidewalk commission in Old Orchard Beach. Christopher Kent was our town manager, Mr. Schlatter was assistant town manager and E. Emerson Cummings was council chairman. Council meetings were held at Loranger School gymnasium. There was an adult liquor establishment on East Grand Avenue where […]

The first six months of 2014 have been a huge success for the Saco Meals Program. We would like to take this opportunity to say thank you to the local business sponsors and many individuals who have been so generous in 2014 with monetary donations and gifts of time to help our program succeed. Without […]

The surreal national debate over the death penalty reached a climax of sorts July 23 in a prison execution chamber in Florence, Arizona. Double murderer Joseph Wood was put to death by lethal injection shortly after his lawyers went to the Supreme Court raising questions about the drugs that would be used to kill him. […]

My twin 6-month-old grandchildren from Ethiopia nearly died from lack of access to clean water. In the next two months, Congress, with no additional cost, has the opportunity to improve the way it spends U.S. foreign aid on clean water, sanitation and hygiene programs so that countries with the least access become the priority, but […]