For generations, American chestnut trees (Castanea dentata) fed people and wildlife throughout eastern North America. As many as four billion chestnut trees populated woodlands from northern Florida to southern Maine and west to the Mississippi River. These “Redwoods of the East Coast” filled the forest canopy, towering up to 100 feet with a girth of […]
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Giving Voice: The impact of Giving Voice
In 2018, there was an incredible and tenacious lady in the community, Caroline Russell, who volunteered at several area nonprofits, including The Gathering Place, Tedford Housing and Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program. Caroline saw firsthand the impact these organizations made on the lives of the folks they served as well as the community, and she […]
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Just a Little Old: Maine State Music Theatre promises enchanting summer
“Some enchanted evening, you may see a stranger, You may see a stranger across a crowded room … “ Some people reading those words will immediately start humming the tune from “Some Enchanted Evening,” the signature song from Rodgers and Hammerstein’s immortal Broadway classic, “South Pacific.” Maine State Music Theatre Artistic Director Curt Dale Clark […]
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Letters to the editor: Political endorsements, flea market complaint
Guzzetti will be positive role model in Senate I am regularly upset by the headlines facing our state and country. Whether it’s because of environmental deterioration, threats to women’s health or devastating mass shootings, my peers and I — as young people — are begging for our voices to be not only heard but adequately […]
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Gordon L. Weil: COVID is the culprit when it comes to economy, not Biden or Trump
COVID has affected everyone, whether or not you were vaccinated. Not that Robert Kennedy Jr. is right about shots. Despite his claims, vaccinations can protect your health. But they can’t shield you from the changes COVID has brought to the American economy. The post-COVID world is often labeled negatively as the “new normal.” Despite broad […]
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The Maine Idea: Sheriff ‘impeachment’ underlines need for change
After a lengthy, unusual and at points downright odd set of proceedings, Oxford County Sheriff Christopher Wainwright kept his office when Gov. Janet Mills declined to use her authority to remove him. Mills accepted recommendations on May 13 from former Supreme Judicial Court Justice Donald Alexander, who she appointed to hear charges brought by the […]
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Sens. Eloise Vitelli and Mattie Daughtry: Reflecting on major accomplishments, the work still to come
On Friday, May 10, the legislative session came to a close after a long day of voting, hard work and negotiations. There were things the Legislature did not accomplish this year that many of us wish we had. Disappointingly, a number of bills with bipartisan support were left unfunded, while 35 others passed but languished […]
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Dick Polman: Sam Alito bets his flag gets flushed down the memory hole
MAGA troll Sam Alito, having signaled his solidarity with Donald Trump’s insurrectionists by flying (or allowing to have flown) an upside-down American flag at his home, is disgracing the U.S. Supreme Court with his mere presence. That sentence barely scratches the surface. I need to elaborate. As the southern writer Flannery O’Connor said long ago, […]
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Elwood Watson: A troll in Congress
To state the 118th Congress is an exercise in debasement, dereliction, and dysfunction would be an understatement. But what happened on the House Oversight Committee last week took things to a new low. House Republicans were advocating for holding Attorney General Merrick B. Garland in contempt of Congress — an action the committee chairman, Rep. […]
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LC Van Savage: Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated
How would you feel if you awoke one morning feeling just as great as always, came downstairs, fixed a nice breakfast, clicked on your computer, sent over a column to a newspaper, and read an answering email from the editor asking if you were dead? Well, frankly it felt kind of creepy/surreal. That happened to […]
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