My husband recently passed away after having eight months of care with Hospice of Southern Maine. How do you begin to thank people who spend their working time comforting and caring for a loved one in pain? It is our good fortune to have this service available to all. I want to say “Thank You” […]

Johanna and Adam, owners and operators of Songbird Farm, discovered their water, soil, produce and blood tested high for PFAS chemicals. Should they be concerned? Biosolids (sludge from municipal sewage and industrial waste) were spread on their land about 20 years before they purchased the farm. Their blood tests came back showing levels of PFAS […]

A nuclear winter’s night would be oh, so long. So cold, so dark and starless. Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide. Think back 65 million years. The dinosaurs suddenly extinct without preface, flesh burned to the bone in an instant by a radiation tsunami. Some … god? … of the universe sends a bomb, an […]

Kudos to Sen. Angus King, who very recently, on the floor of Senate, laid out the truth about high gas prices. I would first say that part of this is due to supply chain disruptions, caused by the global pandemic as well as the invasion of Ukraine by the horrible Russian dictator Vladimir Putin. But, […]

Reading the ghastly news about Russian bombing of health facilities in Ukraine, I want to encourage people to wonder how Russia is motivating people to carry out this type of mission. The photos of Ukrainians fleeing and suffering show that they are just like us. The Russian military is composed of people just like us. […]

A friend emailed yesterday with the sad news of Gabe Walker’s passing. He’d seen Melanie Creamer’s lovely obituary in the March 12 Press Herald. I knew Gabe for many years – we were “gym rats” at the USM Sullivan Gym in Portland. I was struck by his calm, friendly demeanor, warm smile and amusing, loping […]

With all the seemingly endless bad news in the world, I thought it may be a nice turn of events to write a positive letter to my fellow Mainers. My wife and I returned to Maine, after 20 years away, this past April. Since then, we’ve been reminded how truly special Maine is. We’re in […]