Dragons will look to defend their conference crown.
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Elwood Watson: Right’s reaction to Brittney Griner’s release is telling
It sure didn’t take long for right-wing media figures to criticize the release of WNBA star Brittney Griner. Griner was released on Dec. 8 by the Russian government as part of a negotiated prisoner exchange for Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, nicknamed “the merchant of death.” Since the deal was made by the Biden administration, […]
Jase Graves: A judgmental guide
One of my fondest childhood memories of Christmas in the 1970’s was riding around in the family station wagon, “Bessie,” to look at Christmas lights while I whined to my parents about needing a snack – again. There was something magical about a familiar evening landscape transformed to a radiant wonderland at the expense of […]
Local roundup: Mt Ararat girls basketball team rolls past Camden Hills
Pomerleau scores 16 points as Eagles improve to 2-0.
Surprise arrest of suspected Lockerbie bomb maker reopens old wounds for Brunswick
News out of Libya has stirred painful memories for those who knew Pamela Herbert and Nicholas Bright, members of the Bowdoin College community who died in a terrorist attack in 1988.
Norway Savings Bank provides free financial literacy tools to Brunswick Junior High, other schools
Norway Savings Bank has announced that it will renew a three-year agreement to provide free financial literacy education to students in 10 middle and high schools in Maine and New Hampshire. “We are pleased to renew our agreement with our financial literacy partner, Banzai,” said Dan Walsh, president and CEO of Norway Savings Bank. “Financial […]
From the Chamber: Acknowledging our successes in 2022, Part I
As I mentioned in last week’s column, I’m not good at acknowledging our successes at the Bath-Brunswick Regional Chamber, and honestly, I think that puts me in the majority. Sure, some organizations have great marketing departments and/or community-minded leaders who set aside the time to make sure that their successes are shared in the moment […]
Boys track and field preview: Several Midcoast teams poised for breakout winters
Brunswick, Mt. Ararat and Freeport look to contend at their respective conference meets.
John L. Micek: Warnock’s win matters beyond Georgia
Raphael Warnock’s Senate runoff win against Republican Herschel Walker in Georgia last week was a big deal in a lot of ways. For one thing, Warnock, the pastor of the storied Ebenezer Baptist Church (once ministered by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) is now the first Black man to be elected to a […]
Michael Reagan: Unfair trade with Russia
Too bad Paul Whelan is not Black or gay or someone who openly hates America. Too bad he’s white, male and a former U.S. Marine. Otherwise, he would not still be rotting in jail in Russia on trumped-up espionage charges. Also otherwise, Whelan would have been the American prisoner in Russia who was exchanged this […]