Stakeholders in the city of Sanford have been working diligently to revive the former mill town, bringing life to the old buildings, making improvements to the urban landscape, and adding public places and spaces to better the area for residents. The latest charge is the renovation of the old City Hall auditorium. Mary Stair and […]

Excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers in the United States and abroad. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on Israelis and Palestinians coming to terms: The Israeli-Palestinian situation is approaching the point where the United States and other countries must ask how long can this destructive course continue before intervention is needed. Talks between the Israelis and Palestinians were […]

Congressman Mike Michaud’s supporters boast that if elected he would be our nation’s first openly gay governor. But that would not be his only claim to fame. Michaud would attain extraordinary status as a state chief executive whose formal education is limited to a high school diploma, and who has no administrative or business experience, […]

As an 83-year-old retired Master Maine Guide, a former resident of Maine and a continued property owner, I am concerned about the approaching referendum “Mainers for Fair Bear Hunting.” Mother Nature has a grand plan, and man has disrupted it. Now, it is up to man to manage it, and it should not be done […]

Of all I read about July 4 on that celebratory day, by far the most important and not otherwise mentioned anywhere else was an article titled “Celebrating History We Don’t Remember” by Ashley Bateman of the Lexington Institute in Arlington, Virginia, which startlingly appeared in the New York Post that very day. Its essence ”“ […]

As he was in the summer of 2010, LeBron James was the main act in the NBA’s free agency circus this summer. But this time around, there was no clowning around for James on national television. When James made his “decision” in July of 2010, he did it during a set-up special program on ESPN. […]

As a former precision manufacturing teacher at Sanford Regional Technical Center for 16 years, as well as a Shapleigh resident and tax-paying property owner in Sanford, I would like to comment on the proposal for the new Sanford High School and Regional Technical Center. On the surface, the layout of the new school is innovative […]

Here’s a quiz: Which politician favors reauthorizing the Export-Import Bank, which aids American companies that compete in world markets and last year helped support $37 billion in exports and 205,000 domestic jobs while actually turning a profit? Is it Rep. Kevin McCarthy, the new majority leader of the House of Representitives, who voted for the […]