Two local hospitals are making a difference in the dining room. Goodall Hospital in Sanford announced last week that it has a new Biogreen 360 unit that takes food waste and creates rich compost for gardens. The hospital partnered with Casella Waste Systems and Green Waste Stream LLC to install a food digester unit that […]

State Veterinarian Don Hoenig has put out a call to pet owners: Vaccinate your pets. As the state’s top dog on animal health matters, Hoenig felt it necessary to spread the word that most pets in Maine are not protected against debilitating and sometimes deadly diseases. We’d like to join him in encouraging people to […]

Legendary Penn State football coach Joe Paterno has been dead since January, but his legacy will remain forever. The only question now is for which part of his legacy will he be remembered. Last week, we learned that Paterno had more involvement in covering up the Jerry Sandusky case after former FBI Director Louis Freeh […]

Thumbs up to all those who made it to the 17th annual Greek Festival at Saint Demetrios Church and to all those who made the event possible. In addition to all the great food, church members host cultural events like dancing and singing as well as an outdoor market featuring Greek goods. Visitors can also […]

When financial headlines tend to focus on the debt crisis in Europe, a potential hard landing in China, and the sluggish, at best, recovery in the United States, it is sometimes difficult to know if local conditions are any better than the ongoing travails of other regions of the world.  People in Maine, however, know […]

In the highly partisan American political scene, disagreements run deep. The divisions are so deep, in fact, that increasingly they exceed political bounds and take on a moral character. It gets to the point that if you disagree with me, not only are you wrong, but you are also bad, and the policies that you […]

The Biddeford Charter Commission has proposed some necessary and logical changes to the city’s guiding document, but one proposal needs further scrutiny. The proposal would require referendum approval for any purchases of $2 million or more that are not part of the city’s annual budget. Commission Chairman Roland Pelletier told the Journal Tribune that the […]

When we as voters elect someone to represent us in Augusta or Washington, we expect that they are going to do just that: Take our collective concerns and opinions into account on every issue, and then show up to make their vote when the time comes. That’s not always the case, unfortunately, as some representatives […]

When it comes to decision-making, there’s no better way to be a leader than to put yourself in the thick of a situation so you can really understand what’s going on. In the county commissioners’ case, that recently meant putting a spork into the thick of it ”“ of a “country patty,” that is. The […]

America is sitting on the edge of a fiscal cliff and unless changes are made, our economy may fall off it once more. Like Greece, Spain and Italy, our debt is great, our unemployment is high and our political will is wimpy. To prevent an economic collapse, we need to work on deficit reduction, job […]