When my mother was a teenager in Exeter, New Hampshire, she’d sometimes respond to a potential suitor’s request for a date with the line, “No thank you, I’d rather stay home and read Dickens.” When I was a ninth grader in Parkersburg, West Virginia, my English teacher Ms. Pettigrew seemed taken right out of a […]
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Giving Voice: The spirit of Brunswick
I was born in Brunswick, went through the town’s public school system, attended Bowdoin College, and am now raising my three children here. I love this town. Growing up, neighborhood friends of my parents acted and felt like aunts and uncles. My classmates’ moms and dads would bring over lasagna dinners if someone in the […]
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Daniel Kany: Brunswick’s ‘Many Stitches’ mural is more harm than charm
I was alarmed and extraordinarily disappointed to have learned about the large-scale mural that is slated to go up on Fort Andross in Brunswick. I certainly have nothing against murals. We have great ones in Maine. The South Solon Meeting House is a high point of American fresco. The Portland Museum of Art and the […]
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Mild winter chills snow removal industry
Larger snow removal businesses can weather mild winters thanks to steady contracts with commercial clients, but independent plow operators have struggled to make money this season.
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Phil Kerpen: More debt without spending reform is dirty
Before Republicans agreed to elect Kevin McCarthy Speaker House, a handful of his colleagues demanded the implementation of a fiscal framework to rein in federal spending. The threat of spending reduction has launched a full debt ceiling “default” panic. The spending interests are trying to cast conservatives as unreasonable and spendthrift Democrats as saviors of […]
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Brunswick parish to ‘Warm Thy Neighbor’ this weekend
Parishioners and community members in the Brunswick area can pitch in to help local residents stay warm through the cold winter months with “Warm Thy Neighbor” this weekend. St. Charles Borromeo Church and St. John the Baptist Church are taking up a special collection Saturday and Sunday, Jan. 14-15, to help those in need of […]
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Bishop Deeley school visit tradition returns after pandemic hiatus
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland recently announced the return of school visits from Bishop Robert Deeley. For reasons of safety and diocesan policy, the longstanding tradition of Bishop Deeley visiting Catholic schools across Maine was paused from the spring of 2020 until the winter of 2022. “I really do enjoy my school visits,” Deeley […]
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The Maine Idea: ‘Relief’ provided, now we can get down to business
A month after it was put on the docket, the Legislature swiftly passed and Gov. Janet Mills signed a “Winter Energy Relief” bill on its regular opening day, Jan. 4. The $474 million spending proposal, LD 3, was a curious production, about which more in a moment. It was also curious how it became law. […]
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Tom Purcell: Laughing your way to happiness
What makes us happy and fulfilled? According to the directors of the Harvard Study of Adult Development, the longest scientific study of happiness ever conducted, the answer is very simple: our relationships. “The stronger our relationships, the more likely we are to live happy, satisfying and overall healthier lives,” according to the book “The Good […]
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Gordon Weil: House in chaos, but not collapse
Ever heard of Henny-Penny? She’s back! The children’s tale character was hit on the head by an acorn, concluded “the sky is falling” and set out to warn the king. Along the way she panicked her friends, who followed her, only to be tricked and killed by Foxy-Woxy. Just in time, Henny-Penny heard Coxy-Loxy crow, […]