Four decades ago, few baseball fans under 25 were aware there had once been a fierce rivalry between the New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox. It had lain dormant for most of the previous 20 years because the majority of Sox squads of the 1950s and ’60s were mediocre at best, and on […]

Thumbs up to the Experimental Aircraft Association for holding the Young Eagles Flight Rally at Sanford Regional Airport and all of the pilots who volunteered to give young people the opportunity to ride in a plane. Two young ladies from Wells enjoyed the experience and said they had fun. Steve Richard, a private pilot and […]

Graffiti is one of those social ills that often seems impossible to fix, as communities struggle to prevent and clean up these unsightly marks. This form of vandalism is destructive and hard to remove and has a particularly negative effect on an area’s image. In Biddeford, where so much effort has gone into revitalizing the […]

We need jobs. The country, that is, and we need them now. Washington does not seem to be getting the message. President Barack Obama announced his job plan recently and is challenging congressional Republicans to back his proposal to cut payroll taxes. Although the plan has merit, many say it will not pass Congress, and […]

Stephen Colbert, every liberal’s favorite mock conservative, has taken to calling his viewers “heroes” as he exhorts them to contribute to his Super PAC. What’s a Super PAC you ask? Good question. It’s a money-laundering device that allows individuals, corporations and unions to give unlimited amounts of money to a political group, which can in […]

Sanford recently received an application for what would be the first methadone clinic in York County ”“ and the proposal has caused some unease among council members. Spectrum Health Systems Inc. of Worcester, Mass. has submitted an application for a license to operate an outpatient methadone treatment clinic at 61 Eagle Drive. The clinic would […]

Less than a year after the bill was signed into law, the repeal of the military policy commonly known as “don’t ask, don’t tell” is official. The occasion was marked Tuesday at 12:01 a.m., and in San Diego, Calif., current and former troops danced and counted down to midnight. The previous policy allowed gays to […]

This is as good a time as any to reflect on the things I’ve seen, heard and felt here these last few months. I feel that the accumulation of impressions garnered here in these woods has a perpetually calming effect, as though each layer of wondrousness superimposes itself over all the others that came before […]

When Giants fan Bryan Stow of San Francisco attended a baseball game on March 31 in Los Angeles, between the L.A. Dodgers and the San Francisco Giants, he never dreamed that his attendance at the game would end up costing either him, or the Dodgers, $50 million. While walking through the parking lot of Dodgers […]

Thumbs up to the Public Works Department in Sanford for its proposal to reduce the number of streets and roads that are cleared of leaves each autumn, as a way to stretch personnel recources. Already, there have been six layoffs at the department due to budget cuts this fiscal year, so the remaining workers cannot […]