The Wiscasset School Committee fired Wiscasset Middle High School Principal Gina Stevens, who said she authorized the installation of a hidden camera in a food pantry that kept getting broken into.
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Brunswick-Topsham bridge remains closed due to storm
The Frank J. Wood Bridge has been closed since Tuesday due to surging waters in the Androscoggin River resulting from Monday’s storm.
Downed tree displaces Brunswick family days before Christmas
Stephanie Conant and her three children will spend the holidays with family, packing nine people into a three-bedroom apartment.
Letters to the editor: BIW parking garages; is your child safe in school?
BIW should consider two parking garages In my opinion, the proposed parking garage for Bath Iron Works should be two parking garages built north and south of Bath, and workers should be brought into work from there by bus or train. Freeing up the many parking lots is a good goal, but doesn’t go far […]
LC Van Savage: The paws that refreshes
I’m very concerned about something we all see on the tube these days, and I obsess about it far more than I probably should, but I can’t help it. It’s all those gross animal legs and paws we see in commercials. You know, commercials starring an animal, where the poor beast appears to be doing […]
Stacy Frizzle-Edgerton: Go and tell it to the bees
We’ve been creating an apiary for the last year or so up at Mossy Ledge Farm, our home in Bowdoin. Jonathan took the beekeeping class last winter and constructed our hives in the spring. Our new busy baby bees came home to their freshly painted, creamy-yellow hive boxes in May, and it’s been an adventure […]
Sustainable Practice: Sustainable peace
As the long days of summer have faded to the long nights of winter, our hopes for world peace this year have dimmed. But just as our time in the sun will grow again, so too may our hopes be rekindled that we may yet achieve sustainable peace on Earth. Those of us who are […]
Giving Voice: All I want for Christmas
It’s the most wonderful time of the year, isn’t it? Families gather to celebrate traditions that go back thousands of years: Christmas, Chanukah, Kwanza, Las Posadas, Bodhi Day, Santa Lucia Day and Winter Solstice. Silly songs such as “All I Want for Christmas is My Two Front Teeth,” “I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas,” and […]
Just a Little Old: A voice to remember
Maine State Music Theatre celebrated the opening of the 2023 summer season with a gathering at the newly renovated Lemont Hall in downtown Brunswick. During the evening, Curt Dale Clark, MSMT’s artistic director, introduced a surprise performer, Markis Larrivee, MSMT’s audience services manager. Larrivee’s stunning rendition of “You’ll Never Walk Alone” resulted in a prolonged […]
Gordon L. Weil: Phony ‘transition’ away from fossil fuels
A funny thing happened to the promise made by the COP28 environment conference to “transition” away from fossil fuels. You know, that’s the stuff that makes most of our cars go. It went out the exhaust pipe when it encountered the recent U.S. defense spending bill that will lay out tens of millions for a […]
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