Posted inTimes Record

Superintendent’s Notebook: Senior year brings excitement, opportunity … and stress

Brunswick School Department (BSD) schools are bustling, full of laughter, talk of an upcoming math test, high fives that celebrate a win in the big game and much more. For seniors at Brunswick High School, September is the beginning of their best year. To paraphrase a line from the hit movie “Grease,” seniors rule the […]

advertisement
Posted inTimes Record Opinion

Rep. Poppy Arford: The Medicare Savings Program expansion will lower costs for older Mainers

When I ran for my first term in the Legislature, I did so with the goal of making health care more affordable for Maine people. My guess is that you can agree that, for many people in our community, their insurance premiums and out-of-pocket costs for health care or prescription drugs are more expensive, making […]

Posted inTimes Record

Pet Prattle: Dreams are necessary

Science has shown that daydreaming serves a cognitive function: It can help access memories as well as make connections between ideas and concepts, among other things. So, what does that have to do with animal sheltering? Some days, I daydream about what it would be like to have infinite resources in the forms of unlimited […]

Posted inTimes Record Opinion

LC Van Savage: Shoe, shew or shoo

Whenever you watch those shows about people who live in jungles or warm wild places, do you ever marvel about how the denizens of those areas run around in bare feet? Me, too. They shinny up trees, dance on dirt and sticks and stones, run silently about poison-darting dinner, clamber over big rocks and sometimes […]

Posted inTimes Record Opinion

Letters to the editor: Thanks to Collins; on climate change; support for Hepler and Tepler

Thank you to Sen. Collins for strengthening election security I am writing to extend my sincere thanks to Sen. Susan Collins for securing $75 million in election security funding. Maine has a proud tradition of democracy, and it’s essential to keep our elections secure to maintain the trust of our communities. Thanks to Sen. Collins’ […]