Bowdoin College has appointed Jim Hoppe the college’s next senior vice president and dean for student affairs. Hoppe, who will join the administration at the end of July, comes to Bowdoin from Emerson College in Boston, where he has served as vice president and dean of campus life since 2016. He previously served for 12 […]
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Freeport High School senior awarded ConvenientMD scholarship
Freeport High School Senior Rosie Panenka was recently awarded a $2,500 scholarship from ConvenientMD Urgent Care. ConvenientMD’s Student Scholarship Program has expanded to award 10 $2,500 scholarships to high school seniors from Maine, New Hampshire and Massachusetts who plan to pursue post-secondary education in the health care field. There were nearly 800 applications for this […]
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Your Land: Meet the beetles
Lady beetles were imported from Pennsylvania to combat the hemlock woolly adelgid infestation affecting eastern hemlock trees in Brunswick and Topsham.
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Pet Prattle: When neglected dogs end up in court
As I write this, the Irish setters that Midcoast Humane had been housing since December are finally settling into their new homes after being adopted. Most people are not aware that many animal shelters in Maine house pets for court cases. Midcoast Humane does so for the 39 municipalities that feed into our shelters, as […]
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Alexandra Paskhaver: Playing up playgrounds
I miss playgrounds. Not just because playgrounds symbolize a carefree, joyous attitude toward life, but also because when I was a kid, I could cross the monkey bars without having vertigo. Now, the only thing I do well on playgrounds is warm up the benches. I keep my seat better than members of Congress. Speaking […]
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Tom Purcell: Memories of my free-range childhood
It was the first time in my childhood I had an excuse for coming home late for dinner, but nobody — not even the cops — would listen. In the summer of 1972, when I was 10, Tommy Gillen and I built a dam in the creek on the other side of the Horning Road […]
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Topsham Market Basket opening date announced
The grocery store chain confirmed Friday that it would open its newest Maine location on June 14.
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Superintendent’s Notebook: Class of 2024 took a page from Tom Brady’s playbook
Graduation is always a bittersweet time. We celebrate the accomplishments of the graduating class with great joy while also knowing that these amazing young people are spreading their wings and leaving the nest. The graduation ceremony represents the culmination of 12 years of hard work — from math tests and term papers to pop quizzes […]
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Guest column: A restoration experiment at the Brunswick Town Commons
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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Mt. Ararat High School has a valedictorian trio
Mt. Ararat High School in Topsham graduates 185 seniors with commencement at noon Sunday, June 9.