A rabid raccoon was recently killed on Sea Kiss Point in West Bath amid an uptick in rabies cases in Maine this year.
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From the Chamber: The economics of exclusion
Last week, the Supreme Court of the United States handed down several rulings as they do at the end of June prior to their summer recess. The three rulings most discussed on social and mainstream media all involve new exclusions. First, SCOTUS ruled 6-3 against President Joe Biden’s student loan debt relief program, saying it […]
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United Way welcomes new members on Board of Directors
United Way of Mid Coast Maine announced Monday the addition of seven new members to its Board of Directors and its 2023-2024 slate of officers. The new board members are: • Christopher Bowe, MD, president of Mid Coast–Parkview Health. • Kelly Creamer, director of wellness and rehabilitation at LincolnHealth. Creamer is the chairperson of the […]
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Christine Flowers: Supreme Court decision finally erases legalized discrimination
Every year, during the last few days of June, I sit at my computer and wait impatiently for the most important Supreme Court decisions to be announced. Last year, the picnic brought the Dobbs decision, which ended legalized abortion, so it seemed like anything else would be a let-down. Boy was I wrong. Last week, […]
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Elwood Watson: Supreme Court’s affirmative action ruling is very revealing
After decades of aggressive and strategic efforts from influential right-wing forces the Supreme Court outlawed race conscious admissions at universities throughout the nation, dismantling decades of progress and crippling the potential of racial diversity and pluralism at our nation’s institutions of higher education. Chief Justice John Roberts, speaking for the majority, argued that “the student […]
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The Conversation: Military academies can still consider race in admissions, but the rest of the nation’s colleges and universities cannot, court rules
In a 6-3 ruling on Thursday, June 29, 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the use of race in college admissions at Harvard and the University of North Carolina, outlawing the use of race in college admissions in general. The Conversation reached out to three legal scholars to explain what the decision means for students, colleges and universities, […]
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Emergency state aid for Bath elementary school damaged in fire unlikely this year
A state Board of Education committee declined to recommend emergency funding to rebuild the Dike Newell School.
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Topsham golf course reopens under new management
Highland Green Golf Club in Topsham is now managed by the Brunswick Golf Club, which made improvements to the nine-hole course.
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Joe Guzzardi: Teachers quitting over COVID fallout, overcrowding
The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), the most trusted barometer of children’s classroom progress, has just delivered bad but expected news. Post COVID-19 lockdown testing found that kids are going backwards in both reading and math. Thirteen-year-olds who took the NAEP test during the 2022-2023 school year performed at lower levels in math and […]
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Peter Funt: Biden parodies strike out
If TV writers had been on strike during the run up to the 1976 election, it’s possible that Gerald Ford wouldn’t have lost to Jimmy Carter. Ford was a punching bag for NBC’s new “Saturday Night” (later “Saturday Night Live”) beginning with its debut when Chevy Chase coined a campaign slogan for Ford: “If he’s […]
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