Our pal Doc is a genius. Just take the other day, and all of us were gathered up and coffee’d at the Mule Barn truck stop coffee shop and world dilemma think tank, and ol’ Doc just proved it again. Steve noticed them first, the young couple who had just pulled into a parking space […]

Editor, Maine’s June 12 Primary Election is just around the corner.  I, for one, am looking forward to casting my vote.  Maine traditionally has a strong showing at the polls, even during the mid-term elections. Many Mainers like me are interested in the new Ranked Choice Voting system that will be used on Election Day, June 12. This […]

Air power is seductive. From the Army Air Service’s Col. Billy Mitchell’s Winged Defense, written in the aftermath of the slaughter fields of the Great War, to U.S. Air Force Colonel John Warden’s The Air Campaign, first published in 1988, air power prophets have promised quick victories at low costs. Following World War II, the Truman administration […]

Editor, March 27 was just like any ordinary day/evening, until it wasn’t.  My husband and I had both just arrived home in the evening when he began having a medical emergency.  He fell to the ground and began having difficulty breathing.  Not having a medical background, I was not sure what was happening, so I […]

Editor, Maine’s June 12 Primary Election is just around the corner.  I, for one, am looking forward to casting my vote.  Maine traditionally has a strong showing at the polls, even during the mid-term elections. Many Mainers like me are interested in the new Ranked Choice Voting system that will be used on Election Day, June 12. This […]

Editor, The 2018 Sanford Project Graduation Committee has been working extremely hard this year raising funds to provide the graduating senior class with a fun, chem-free night after graduation. We began our fundraising season before school even started. We met in August to brainstorm ideas; set fundraising dates so we didn’t interfere with other sports, […]

With election signs everywhere it is well to note that it is unrealistic to expect national candidates to follow the Constitution when we did not insist that they did so in local and state elections.  After all, many simply move up to higher office.  Some may even view the Constitution as irrelevant at these levels. Several […]

Saturday, May 5 this year was the 200th anniversary of Karl Marx’s birth in Trier, Germany. On that day in 1818, a philosopher was born whose ideas would soon after prove essential to the historic torment of revolution, international conflicts, totalitarian rule, human suffering, and death that defined the 20th century across much of the world. Reactions […]