By Lu Bauer I’d like to discuss an issue raised in a letter to the editor written by N. Bryan Pullen, President of Summit Spring Water, Inc. He noted a disconnect between local resistance to Nestle/Poland Springs removing and selling Maine water and people’s tendency to buy Poland Springs water (rather than buying from small, […]

Medicaid costs in Maine have grown by $260 million annually for the last three years – a rate taxpayers can’t sustain, members of a special legislative committee agreed last week as they started their work to recommend changes to the system. “If left unchecked and un-redesigned,” the state’s Medicaid program could outstrip “the capacity of […]

I admit that I committed a horrible mistake by attending the Town Council meeting of October 11. Yes, I confess that I did know the agenda prior to attending with the full understanding that my blood pressure would boil, friends would swear and I would have to pray that heart attack number 3 would not […]

I admit that I committed a horrible mistake by attending the Town Council meeting of October 11. Yes, I confess that I did know the agenda prior to attending with the full understanding that my blood pressure would boil, friends would swear and I would have to pray that heart attack number 3 would not […]

Standish students learned about fire safety during Fire Prevention Week last week. National Fire Prevention Week is celebrated during the month of October to commemorate the Great Chicago Fire of October 9, 1871. The blaze, which lasted for several days, claimed more than 250 lives and destroyed 17,430 structures. In 1925, President Calvin Coolidge declared […]

$6 million salary bonanza An arbitrator ruled earlier this month that 415 caseworkers in the Department of Health and Human Services are owed back pay dating to 1998 that could add up to $6 million. The arbitrator ruled the case workers were misclassified based on the skills they need to do their jobs and should […]

$6 million salary bonanza An arbitrator ruled earlier this month that 415 caseworkers in the Department of Health and Human Services are owed back pay dating to 1998 that could add up to $6 million. The arbitrator ruled the case workers were misclassified based on the skills they need to do their jobs and should […]

$6 million salary bonanza An arbitrator ruled earlier this month that 415 caseworkers in the Department of Health and Human Services are owed back pay dating to 1998 that could add up to $6 million. The arbitrator ruled the case workers were misclassified based on the skills they need to do their jobs and should […]

$6 million salary bonanza An arbitrator ruled earlier this month that 415 caseworkers in the Department of Health and Human Services are owed back pay dating to 1998 that could add up to $6 million. The arbitrator ruled the case workers were misclassified based on the skills they need to do their jobs and should […]

Good idea, good time, good location It’s been a long time since an idea this good has been raised in Windham. And it’s time we raise our hands and possibly our checkbooks in support of it. Windham needs a community park, and one has been proposed for the space beside the Windham Public Safety Building […]