Last weekend, I took a walk along the portion of the Eastern Trail that connects Biddeford with Kennebunk. Wide, flat and very well maintained, the trail moves in a pretty straight line, its end disappearing into infinity in the distance, and it offers quite a few spiritually restful stops along the way. Of course, I […]

Fans at a Wisconsin charity softball game this weekend witnessed a truly disgusting act. The game, put on by the Green Bay Packers’ Donald Driver, should have ended with one young boy being truly happy. Instead, it ended with one adult woman making a fool of herself. Video posted Monday on the Internet shows an […]

Thumbs up to the organizers of the REVOLUTION3 triathlon to be held in Old Orchard Beach in August, and the local officials who helped bring the event to southern Maine. At a recent press conference, organizers said the event will draw hundreds of participants and likely their family and friends to the coastal community, providing […]

Things are looking up for York County government. Officials were notified earlier this week that the county will be upgraded to an A rating by Standard & Poors. County Finance Director Victoria Ridlon was informed of the good news in the county’s credit rating Wednesday, and the upgrade is the first upward movement in the […]

While Maine is not often hit by the types of natural disasters that make the national news ”“ like the devastating category 5 tornadoes, tsunamis or earthquakes that wipe out entire cities ”“ we’ve had plenty of very serious natural events that have destroyed property and taken lives. The wildfires of 1947 took out wide […]

The Biddeford School Department is likely trying to figure out how to fund after-school programs in the fall, after finding out that a grant that was to fund those programs and summer school this year will be rescinded. The decision to take back the grant funds was announced by state Education Commissioner Stephen Bowen May […]

Homeowners facing foreclosure, and those trying to prevent foreclosures with short sales, need fairness and compassion from lenders. The housing market is still in a depressed state, as home prices are expected to improve very little in 2012. Too many Americans have lost their homes in the last five years. Since early 2007, nearly four […]

Edgar Allan Poe famously observed, “Odors have an altogether peculiar force, in affecting us through association; a force differing essentially from that of objects addressing the touch, the taste, the sight or the hearing.” The wisdom of those words became crystal clear to me one afternoon not long ago after coming home from work late, […]

Many creatures instinctively know the advantage of perching on high spots. They are afforded a better view of, and protection from, what lurks below. I’m guessing that it also imparts to them some measure of supremacy, and aside from being the bane of anyone who’s had to navigate a sloping property during the winter, what’s […]

Barry Bonds has finally made an admission, but unfortunately it’s not the admission that people want to hear. The 47-year-old former San Francisco Giants slugger, who testified to Congress in 2003 about steroid use, admitted earlier this week that he was a convicted felon. He quickly, however, made it clear that he was convicted for […]