I recently had the opportunity to ride along with a volunteer driver for the Volunteer Transportation Network (VTN), a local program that provides free rides to folks in need of accomplishing errands or getting to medical appointments. In my two hours spent with the driver and the rider, it became abundantly clear that there is […]
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Doug Bennett and Ingrid Chalufour: What’s Brunswick’s story, really?
What’s Brunswick’s story? How do we understand this place? We know it, don’t we, as a place where people have come to live, work, raise families and play for decades, for centuries, for millennia. It’s a good place, one of the best. We tell stories of the places we settle in various ways. We write […]
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Gordon L. Weil: Ukraine ends a post WWII world
The Ukraine War wasn’t supposed to happen. At the end of the Second World War, Americans and others drank their own bathwater, as the saying goes. They imagined that the winning alliance – the U.S., Britain, the Soviet Union, France and China – had finally halted the endless land wars for territorial gain. In 1945, […]
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Giving Voice: Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program prepares to start a new chapter
GIVING VOICE — For many of us, the past year at Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program has felt like a waiting game. Waiting for zoning changes, building plans, freezers, food and just about everything else. We learned again and again that our small corner of the world is not exempt from disruptions in the global […]
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Barbara Held: What Barbara Ehrenreich taught a diehard pessimist about hope
Upon learning of the death last month of my hero and friend, the great social-justice activist and journalist Barbara Ehrenreich, my thoughts turned to her 2007 Harper’s article, “Pathologies of Hope.” She opened with no punches pulled: “I hate hope. It was hammered into me constantly a few years ago when I was being treated […]
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David Treadwell: Run, Herschel Walker, run!
Once upon a time, there was a rich businessman (or at least he claimed to be rich) from New York City with orange hair and gold fixtures in his bathroom and a popular TV show who decided to run for president. He loved holding rallies and blaming “those people” — anyone who wasn’t white or […]
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Candidates for new District 49 want to combat high cost of living on coast
Current District 53 Rep. Allison Hepler and Georgetown business owner Kelly James both hope to combat high housing and energy costs.
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Amateur genealogists memorialize World War II soldiers
Maine volunteers have joined a national effort to research and write obituaries for the more than 400,000 Americans who died in World War II.
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Field hockey: Familiar teams sit atop the final Heal point standings
Skowhegan (A North), Lawrence (B North) and Winthrop (C South) enter postseason play as No. 1 seeds.
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Common Good Grant call for applications amid increase in funds
Bowdoin College’s Joseph McKeen Center for the Common Good announces its 2022-2023 Common Good Grant application process — and is raising the amount from $2,500 to $4,000 this year, a 60% increase. This year’s Common Good Grant student committee commits to funding at least one qualified grant in each of the four following areas: arts, […]