Let’s get a divorce. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) has loudly proposed a “national divorce” for the U.S. There are what the law calls “irreconcilable differences” between the Red states and the Blue states, so we should split up. Silly as that sounds, her proposal offers the chance for remembering just who this “odd couple” […]
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The Conversation: Republicans are trying to build a multiracial right – will it work?
THE CONVERSATION — Former Republican South Carolina Governor and United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley launched her bid for president recently in a video that began by describing the racial division that marked her small hometown of Bamberg, South Carolina. Meanwhile, another presumptive GOP candidate, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, has continued his crusade against “woke ideology,” most […]
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Football: Brunswick hires Mark Renna as head coach
Renna, a former Gray-New Gloucester head coach, has 22 years of experience, most recently as an assistant at Yarmouth.
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One of the Freeport Flag Ladies dies, remembered for commitment and patriotism
Carmen Footer, 81, passed away Wednesday surrounded by friends and family.
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St. John’s students school Bishop Deeley during annual visit
Bishop Robert Deeley paid a visit to St. John’s Catholic School in Brunswick Wednesday as part of his annual tour of Catholic schools in Maine. Bishop Deeley participated in various activities with students from several grades, including a sixth-grade STEM experiment. “I think it will work in the salt water,” Deeley said. A sixth grader […]
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Basketball: Brunswick, Mt. Ararat seniors earn postseason accolades
Thomas Harvey (Brunswick) and Brady Merrill (Mt. Ararat) recognized for performance on and off the court.
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The Maine Idea: Voter ID needn’t be partisan
John Paul Stevens, one of the most admirable among recent U.S. Supreme Court justices, came to believe that his opinion upholding an Indiana voter ID law in 2008 was correct as to the law but perhaps unjust in its effects, later calling it a “fairly unfortunate decision.” Another distinguished judge, Richard Posner, who wrote the […]
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Tom Purcell: Still time to save us from daylight saving time
I dread the coming of Sunday, March 12. At 2 a.m. that morning our clocks will “spring forward.” That means that my yellow Labrador, Thurber, who wakes me at exactly 6 a.m. every morning, will begin waking me at exactly 5 a.m. every morning. He’ll do so because that’s when his Labradorian clock tells him […]
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Brunswick teacher makes Yamaha’s ’40 Under 40′ list for excellence in music education
Brunswick music teacher Brandon Duras, 27, was named one of America’s top 40 musical educators, under age 40, on Feb. 1.
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Intertidal: What’s to come for Freeports working waterfront?
There is an eagerness to learn about what is happening on the waterfront that was palpable at this week’s panel presentation about the working waterfront in Freeport. Held in the lovely Meetinghouse Arts’ space on Main Street, there were more than 20 attendees in the pews of the former church and nearly a dozen more […]