Joanne Powers and Robert Weir will serve on the West Bath School Board after the results of the 2024 election rolled in.
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Rep. Dan Ankeles: Gratitude and reflection on what comes next
I’d like to express my gratitude to all the Brunswick voters in District 100 for rehiring me as your state representative for the next two years. When the new Legislature is sworn in next month, I will do all I can to be worthy of that confidence. Our community stands at both an environmental and […]
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Gordon L. Weil: Trump launches a new political era
American political history has reached a turning point. So, too, has the country’s moral sense, at least about politics. But that did not happen this week. It happened eight years ago, when Donald Trump was first elected president. Any doubt was erased by his victory and the powerful vote for Republicans across the country this […]
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Superintendent’s Notebook: Planning is key for providing a great education
The Brunswick School Department’s highest priority is preparing our students for the next step in their journey and doing so in a safe and welcoming environment. Thanks to the dedication and hard work of our teachers and staff, Brunswick students are engaged, their academic performance is solid and graduation rates are high. While past success […]
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Intertidal: A hard living under the sea
Among the many creative Halloween decorations I saw last week was a skeleton sitting in a lawn chair with a mask and snorkel. It was so simple and so funny. It reminded me of a topic I had wanted to write about people who used their “costumes” to protest the release of wastewater from Japan’s […]
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Just a Little Old: Tedford Housing is about neighbors helping neighbors
The number of Mainers experiencing homelessness has more than tripled since 2020. Tedford Housing exists to address that issue, driven by a clear mission: “Empowering People to Move From Homelessness to Home.” There is no one cause for homelessness; each person’s story is different, yet each one deserves to be heard and responded to. That’s […]
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Sustainable Practice: Free heat
In a superbly sustainable home, closed windows are a passive heating system, allowing winter sun to enter and trap heat inside. This is possible because incoming solar energy arrives mainly in ultraviolet and visible light wavelengths, while outgoing heat energy radiates in longer infrared wavelengths. About 76% of winter sun that reaches a standard double-pane […]
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The Maine Idea: ‘America the united’ still a distant goal
America was a divided nation going into the election and may be more divided coming out. Donald Trump never claimed to be a “uniter,” and his stunning win means that new political battle lines are already forming. Despite that one clear result, a lot remains uncertain, a result of the preference of western states to […]
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BoomerTECH Adventures: Have you explored the podcast world recently?
Did you know that people still ride the rails as a way of life? They go down to the big train yards and hop a freight, going who knows where. I thought that phenomenon died out with the end of the Great Depression. Listening to the podcast “City of Rails” with Danelle Morton opened my […]
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Stories from Maine: A refusal to obey
One of the most renowned men in the history of the Old West was a man from Maine who became legendary, not so much for what he did but for what he didn’t do. Silas Stillman Soule was born on July 26, 1838, in Bath to Amasa and Sophia Low Soule. He and his four […]
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