During the weekend, the Wells and Traip Academy girls’ basketball teams played in a regular season basketball game. It was on the schedule as just another contest being played in the mid-season, but there was nothing ho-hum about the game. As the teams battled on the court, they were playing to help fight breast cancer […]

Thumbs up to all of those who are making time today to help out their community in some way, in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. It’s easy to forget the days of segregation and the impact it had on our society, especially for those of us born well after the Civil Rights movement. […]

Although Central Maine Power Company has been working on its Maine Power Reliability Program since 2010, the company just received approval from the Town of Kennebunk for the project last week. The $1.4 billion project will install 442 miles of high-voltage transmission line, from Eliot to Orrington, that carries bulk electricity from plants to businesses […]

Once again, the West-Brook Skating Rink has opened for the season, marking the beginning of the official deep winter. Temperatures have been unseasonably mild this year, postponing the ice until just last Thursday, but now the cold has mostly settled in. Skates have been sharpened, hockey sticks rewrapped, pucks dropped and figure eights carved as […]

Old Orchard Beach is talking term limits once again. At a recent town council meeting, councilors discussed imposing limits on how long members of town committees and boards ”“ excluding the council ”“ could serve as chairman or vice chairman. However, the proposed ordinance change did not fare well with the council, and we agree […]

One question I am frequently asked is, “What is going to happen to the economy in Maine?” Well, in some ways, things are getting better, but we are not out of the woods yet. While the percent of people who are unemployed in Maine is lower than in states like Nevada and Florida, it still […]

Last week, the Biddeford City Council decided to continue tabling Mayor Alan Casavant’s appointment of Joshua Bodwell to the Charter Revision Commission. Though all of the mayor’s other nominees were approved for their respective committees, Bodwell has been shut out so far, kept from volunteering to serve his community. It’s no secret that Bodwell burned […]

Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay. — “Nothing Gold Can Stay,” by Robert Frost The morning of January first dawned cold, […]

Last week, when I stopped to refuel my car, I spied a sticker on the gas pump that read, “Please prepay before pumping.” I found that funny. After all, it’d be pretty tough to prepay after I pumped! Later, I chuckled when reading of Newt Gingrich’s outrage over his disappointing fourth-place finish in the Iowa […]

The National Football League wild-card playoffs were lackluster for the first three games of the weekend as the New York Giants trounced the Atlanta Falcons, the New Orleans Saints routed the Detroit Lions and the Houston Texans beat the hapless Cincinnati Bengals. Those first three contests were boring and predictable. Then, the fourth game of […]