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Letters to the editor: Political endorsements, flea market complaint

May 30, 2024May 30, 2024

Guzzetti will be positive role model in Senate I am regularly upset by the headlines facing our state and country. Whether it’s because of environmental deterioration, threats to women’s health or devastating mass shootings, my peers and I — as young people — are begging for our voices to be not only heard but adequately […]

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Spark Cycling’s Plunge for the Funds raises $33,000 for ALS clinic

by The Times Record May 30, 2024May 30, 2024

Spark Cycling Studio celebrated its third anniversary on May 11 with the first annual Plunge for the Funds, a fundraiser to support patients at Mid Coast Hospital’s ALS Clinic. In a nod to the viral 2014 Ice Bucket Challenge, members of the Spark community solicited donations and pledges to submerge in one of three cold […]

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Gordon L. Weil: COVID is the culprit when it comes to economy, not Biden or Trump

by Gordon L. Weil Guest column May 30, 2024

COVID has affected everyone, whether or not you were vaccinated. Not that Robert Kennedy Jr. is right about shots. Despite his claims, vaccinations can protect your health. But they can’t shield you from the changes COVID has brought to the American economy. The post-COVID world is often labeled negatively as the “new normal.” Despite broad […]

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The Maine Idea: Sheriff ‘impeachment’ underlines need for change

by Douglas Rooks The Maine Idea May 30, 2024

After a lengthy, unusual and at points downright odd set of proceedings, Oxford County Sheriff Christopher Wainwright kept his office when Gov. Janet Mills declined to use her authority to remove him. Mills accepted recommendations on May 13 from former Supreme Judicial Court Justice Donald Alexander, who she appointed to hear charges brought by the […]

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Sens. Eloise Vitelli and Mattie Daughtry: Reflecting on major accomplishments, the work still to come

by Sen. Eloise Vitelli and Sen. Mattie Daughtry Guest column May 30, 2024May 30, 2024

On Friday, May 10, the legislative session came to a close after a long day of voting, hard work and negotiations. There were things the Legislature did not accomplish this year that many of us wish we had. Disappointingly, a number of bills with bipartisan support were left unfunded, while 35 others passed but languished […]

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Photo: Rockwell’s ‘The Runaway’ with a twist

May 30, 2024May 30, 2024

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Maine Coast Fishermen’s Association to host Just for the Halibut fundraiser

by Paul Bagnall The Times Record May 30, 2024May 30, 2024

The Maine Coast Fishermen’s Association is serving up a live fillet demonstration and dinner fundraiser at Luke’s Lobster Portland Pier Thursday, June 6.

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Sisters’ paintings featured at Boothbay Harbor gallery

by Marty Gleason and Carl Little, Gleason Fine Art Guest column May 30, 2024May 28, 2024

Gleason Fine Art in Boothbay Harbor will be celebrating the paintings of two mid-20th century sisters — Anne (1911-1967) and Dorothy (1906-1984) Eisner — through June 25. A catalog with essays by noted arts writer Carl Little and Dorothy Eisner’s daughter (and Anne Eisner’s niece), Christie Eisner McDonald, is available for the asking. The reception […]