Whether it’s a pandemic-related illness, general health and wellbeing, or a medical emergency, everyone needs to have access to health care to live full and sustaining lives. When we are healthy and taken care of, we can go to work, raise our children, support our families and have some fun – when time allows for […]
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Guest Column – The cherry tree
Social and political historians, looking back on our time, will struggle to understand the verbal chaos and nonsense produced by such concepts as fake news, alternate truth and virtual reality. And they’ll have it, because it’s all being recorded on silicon chips, magnetic tapes, CD-ROMs and digital matrices for their convenience – our political speeches […]
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From Augusta – Helping our food pantries through the holidays and winter season
I love this time of the year. Thanksgiving, family and football — it doesn’t get much better than that. But as the weather gets colder and the holidays approach, we have to remember how difficult this time of year can be for our local food pantries and our neighbors who rely on them. According to […]
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Guest Column – Lost in the pandemic
There was a time BP (Before Pandemic), when at the All Day Breakfast, just across the river from Dock Square and on down the road a piece toward Wells, some folks would take the cute little salt and pepper shakers from their table as they finished their meal and left, while others would bring imaginative […]
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Guest Column – Kindness is not a lost concept
I was born with a disability. That is, I entered the world surely believing that all people were “Wonderful, Wonderful,” and filled with good will and kindness. And I know this would be the very best way for everyone to feel, even if it weren’t so. And it isn’t. Although there really are many “Wonderful, […]
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Guest Column – Five lessons courtesy of Mister Roller
If you want to know more about Mister Roller, and what became of him, I’d say he’s probably still there. Just look for a beat-up, white panel truck with Florida plates and a couple of ladders strapped to a bracket on top. Look inside to see if the floor is littered with old paint cans, […]
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Guest Column – Mister Roller
I don’t think you could have called us a team, but three of us worked as painters for Mister Roller. That wasn’t his real name. We called him that because he said there wasn’t anything that couldn’t be painted with a roller instead of a paintbrush. He didn’t want us to know his name, anyway. […]
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Guest Column – Full Metal (Yellow) Jacket
A faint buzzing wakes me up in the middle of the night. Groggy, I assume it’s an annoying mosquito that’s slipped into the house. I cover my head with my pillow and try to go back to sleep. But the buzzing gets louder. And louder. If this is a mosquito, it’s the size of a […]
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Improving our Local Foods Fund is a win for students and farmers
Last month, I wrote about all the new changes our students will experience this school year as a result of measures we passed in the Legislature. One of those measures involved making Maine one of the first states in the country to guarantee free meals for all students, regardless of income. Interestingly enough, this past […]
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Guest Column – Brady among the Tampanians
Tom Brady is either the G.O.A.T. (Greatest of All Time) or just a goat, depending on your geography, NFL team affiliation, or political persuasion (the guy reportedly had a MAGA hat in his locker). Like many superstars, he’s a polarizing figure. You love him or you hate him. Or, if you’re a longtime Patriots fan, […]