The second annual Boots and Brews 5K Run will kick off at 10 a.m. on May 6 at 23 Depot St. in Freeport. Last year’s hosts are back: L.L. Bean, Brickyard Hollow Brewing Company, Gritty’s Freeport Brew Pub, Maine Beer Company and Mast Landing Brewing Company. Proceeds benefit the Greater Freeport Chamber of Commerce. Join […]
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Climate talk highlights how to save money, reduce carbon emissions
The City of Bath Climate Action Commission’s Climate Conversations at the Patten Free Library continue at 5:30 p.m. May 3. The public is invited to a presentation by Bridget Gifford, who will discuss Efficiency Maine’s residential offerings. The program will describe how homeowners can receive thousands of dollars in rebates for energy-efficient upgrades. Gifford, program […]
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Brunswick celebrates 12th annual Poem in Your Pocket Day
Brunswick businesses are encouraging people to pick up poems for the town’s annual Poem in Your Pocket Day on April 27.
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Brunswick homeless shelter announces new leader
Tedford Housing runs the Midcoast’s only homeless shelter and is raising money for a new building.
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Brunswick police officer honored for saving man’s life
Brunswick police Officer Zach Huber went “above and beyond” saving a suicidal man last year.
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Lisa Botshon: Celebrating 140 years of Brunswick’s library
In 1883, I would have been writing this piece for the now long defunct Brunswick Telegraph. That’s the earliest year documented that Brunswick citizens first made a concerted effort to found a town library. While this endeavor may have seemed uncertain in the early 1880s, the circumstances were ripe for creating an institution dedicated to […]
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Letters to the editor: Keep Electoral College; reject abortion bill; movement to the left
Keeping the Electoral College In a recent letter to the Times Record, a writer indicated her support of pending legislation that would dramatically alter the way we choose our president. Instead of the current system that allots electoral votes to each state, it would simply count total votes across the country to determine the winner. […]
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Barbara Held: Assessing our polarized convictions about Trump’s criminal intent — and why it matters
With Donald Trump’s criminal indictment in the New York hush-money case and with three yet-to-be-determined criminal cases — on Georgia election interference, the Jan. 6 insurrection, and the Mar-a-Lago government documents — Americans’ convictions about Trump’s criminal culpability are as polarized as ever. In the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Jennifer McCoy and Benjamin Press […]
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Danny Tyree: Do you have a babysitting horror story?
At approximately the time this column is uploaded to the syndicate website, I will be attending the funeral of my Aunt Jean. I’m sure the eulogist will wax eloquent about heaven, but I want to nominate Aunt Jean to the Babysitter Hall of Fame. When I was six and my brother Dwight was four, our […]
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Just a Little Old: What a difference a mentor makes
During our recent visit to Anna Maria Island in Florida, we noticed a man and a boy having a blast in the warm Gulf water. Every day. Almost all day. The man was built like a football player. The boy had the same build, even though he was only six years old. We later learned […]
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