Major League Baseball fans able to overlook the rampant greed of the sport’s owners, players, and sponsors, steroid scandals, night World Series games in November, obscene ticket prices, even more obscene player salaries and Scott Boras have much to celebrate about the recently completed World Series. For one thing, it marked the first championship for […]

Thumbs up to the town clerks and their deputies from all 29 municipalities in York County and indeed, across the state. Their election-related tasks start long before Election Day, but the second Tuesday in November is perhaps their longest and most difficult workday. In most municipalities, polls are open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. […]

A wealthy but frugal investment banker from Kennebunk left an important legacy when he died two years ago. His millions will establish scholarships at Fryeburg Academy and Bowdoin College and promote academic programs. Bion Cram was an alumnus of both schools, which he attended as a scholarship student, and he split his entire estate between […]

Republicans in Maine are looking forward to beginning 2011 in a strong political position, while the people wait to see how they will put their newfound power to work. Governor-elect Paul LePage will come into office with substantial GOP majorities in both houses of the Legislature. It’s a complete turnaround ”“ apparently just what many […]

With the mid-term elections over, elected officials on all sides need to deal with the economic problems facing us. Most experts predict slow growth for the economy and jobs. Many people have lost jobs. Still, even in a bad economy, some Maine business people find it hard to find local people to fill the jobs […]

Those who haven’t attended a high school dance for years might be surprised by the kind of close contact that can now seen on the dance floor. The gratifying friction that has been labeled “grinding” is popular among many students, and they aren’t shy about saying so. As difficult as it is to resist the […]

With space shuttle Discovery poised for its last flight, politics continues to complicate the future of U.S. space missions. The current flight will bring gear and supplies to the International Space Station, including a robot that will become a permanent resident of the station. The next and final scheduled shuttle flight is due to lift […]

Today is voting day and by now many have already cast their ballots. Most polls will be open until 8 p.m., however, and we take this opportunity to make one last pitch to the busy, the discouraged and the indifferent. Please vote. The ballot choices are especially important for those discouraged by economic hardship and […]

What shall I make of these days of orange dawns and golden dusks? The evening skies are awash in mauves and pinks, and winter sighs at my doors and windows, “I’m near, I’m very near now.” Days of wind brushing away yet another summer’s remnants, great showers of leaves falling en masse, the fall garden […]

Forty-three years ago Marie Cooney, a 5th grade teacher at Helen Keller Middle School, prepared her students for their first election by earnestly instructing them to listen carefully to what each candidate for the Student Council had to say. “This is not a popularity contest,” she intoned in her most serious voice as she urged […]