Since the end of the 2011 Major League Baseball season, and throughout the entire 2012 season, the Boston Red Sox hadn’t given their fans a lot about which to be happy. In 2011, Red Sox fans saw the biggest September collapse in baseball history when the Red Sox only won seven games for the month, […]

As if Nova Scotia didn’t do enough by way of dazzling a newcomer with spectacular sunsets and vast expanses of blue sky and water, it is also a nature-lover’s paradise. Everywhere I looked during my recent trip there, I was rewarded with sights whose memories will stay with me for weeks and months to come. […]

Beach roses growing along the shore on Brier Island, Nova Scotia. (RACHEL LOVEJOY PHOTO)

Thumbs up to the City of Sanford for agreeing to make a special exception to its approval process and restore two streetlights to the Nathan Court neighborhood. Residents there have not felt as safe since their streetlights went dark after years of a private citizen paying for them, and the police have documented incidents of […]

This Town,” a new book about Washington by Mark Leibovich, the chief national correspondent for the New York Times Magazine, is a surprise best seller. But it’s no surprise that the book recounts anew the story of money’s dominant role in our political system. The book reveals the seamy story about the ways that money […]

Those who do not vaccinate their children against preventable diseases are putting everyone at risk, and this anti-science sentiment has now reared its ugly head in Biddeford and in Saco, where cases of whooping cough have arisen at the high schools. This disease, also known as pertussis, is spread through coughing and sneezing, and can […]

Chances are you’ve never heard of Mr. Moon. Which is a shame, because Mr. Moon is a golden god ”“ in the realm of sports mascots, anyway, which is a group as eclectic as the contestants in a Miss America pageant. The difference is that, being a generally higher-I.Q. bunch, the mascots would likely be […]

The University of Maine System is using controversial, commission-based recruiting to bring more foreign students to its schools, an investigative report recently showed. The Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting found the system has hired the firm Study Group to do recruiting abroad, for which agents are paid on a per-head basis by the university […]

Although the exact wording has yet to be developed, signatures are being gathered this fall for a 2014 referendum question on bear hunting. When voters go to the polls this November, they may be asked to give their signature toward this effort, so it’s important to be informed. A similar effort in 2004 failed, but […]

This past week, on 9/11, we paused. This “where-were-you-when” event resonates so deeply that we must assign a symbol, a group of numbers, to encapsulate the inexpressible ”“ the horror and response, the tragedy and resolve. We are still coming to terms with the repercussions of 9/11, and what they say about us as a […]