Today is May 1. We’ve officially completed one-third of 2015. It’s May Day. Look around and enjoy some flowers. You might be able to find some blooming now that the snow has melted — finally! — and temperatures are beginning to climb. But if you cannot find any, cheer up anyway. There’s plenty more to […]

I had put off returning to my mother’s house as long as I could, relishing the long winter storms that kept me holed up at my home in Maine. But after the snow receded, leaving behind mud and brown grass, I knew it was time to return to her Connecticut cottage. Mom had stepped out […]

HAVANA Cubans welcomed the news Wednesday that Pope Francis will visit in September, with many calling it a powerful reinforcement of his support for detente between the United States and Cuba. The Vatican spokesman, Rev. Federico Lombardi, said Francis would visit Cuba on his way to the United States, but didn’t provide details or dates. […]

WISCASSET — The Springs of Living Water will bring a gospel music concert to the Wiscasset Church of the Nazarene at 11 a.m. Sunday, April 26. The group has presented music concerts in several Maine churches for years and are a real blessing to the listener, according to Pastor Wally Staples. “The four instruments blend […]

VAGHARSHAPAT, Armenia Life had barely begun for Khosrov Frangyan when he knew the fear of being an Armenian in the Ottoman Empire. A century later, the memories still torment him. “Somebody told us that Turks will come and start killing us,” said the 105-yearold, recalling how he and fellow villagers hid atop a mountain. “Turkish […]

My husband Dana swears it wasn’t his fault. We were squeezed in the tiny galley of our kitchen. As I tried to move around him, my baby toe caught the underside of his shoe, partly ripping off my nail. “Why did you do that?” I looked at him aghast as my toe throbbed with pain. […]

History being made began with a treacherous king and a man of God brave enough to pray publicly. The Old Testament account in 1 Kings 18 records King Ahab of Israel being confronted by the prophet Elijah about the reason for his nation’s devastating 3 1/2-year drought. This was a direct repercussion of the king […]

BRUNSWICK — There will be a special worship service at 7 p.m. Sunday, April 19, at the Bowdoin College Chapel to present the sermon poems of James Weldon Johnson. The African-American poet — who was a university professor, lawyer, founder of the NAACP and ambassador to Nicaragua — published the sermons in 1927 in his […]