College Guild, a Brunswick nonprofit that provides free educational courses to prisoners around the country, will host a fundraiser Thursday at 5 p.m.
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The Conversation: School start times and screen time late in the evening exacerbate sleep deprivation in US teenagers
THE CONVERSATION — With the school year underway around the U.S., parents and caregivers are once again faced with the age-old struggle of wrangling groggy kids out of bed in the morning. For parents of preteens and teenagers, it can be particularly challenging. Sometimes this gets chalked up to laziness in teens. But the main […]
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Midcoast school districts struggle with substitute bus driver, teacher shortage
By enlisting substitute teachers, bus drivers, custodians and more to paper over vacancies in permanent positions, school districts have depleted their stock of workers available to fill in on short notice for sick employees.
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Local roundup: Brunswick field hockey ties up with Oxford Hills
Ellie Sullivan gets the tying goal for the Dragons.
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Local roundup: Freeport field hockey settles for tie with Greely
Emily Groves scores the only goal for Freeport.
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The Conversation: US is becoming ‘developing country’ on global rankings that measure democracy, inequality
THE CONVERSATION — The United States may regard itself as a “leader of the free world,” but an index of development released in July 2022 places the country much farther down the list. In its global rankings, the United Nations Office of Sustainable Development dropped the U.S. to 41st worldwide, down from its previous ranking of […]
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Gordon Weil: Trump case judge undermines confidence in courts
Donald Trump has a friend at court. He appointed her. U.S. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon favors the former president in the Department of Justice case about the presidential documents found in an FBI search at Mar-a-Lago, his Florida resort residence. Former U.S. Attorney General William Barr, also a Trump appointee, has noted that it […]
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The Conversation: In states where abortion is banned, children and families already face uphill battle
THE CONVERSATION — Some proponents of abortion bans and restrictions say they are concerned about “supporting not just life,” but what they call “quality of life worth living,” saying they want to promote laws and policies that help families. Three authors from Brigham Young University, for instance, have noted that the overturning of Roe v. Wade […]
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Giving Voice: Bracing for a winter of feeding hungry families
As summer ends and the harvest begins to wane, Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program is hard at work planning how to provide relief for food insecurity through the upcoming winter. Food insecurity—defined as a lack of consistent access to enough food for an active, healthy life—affects 20% of Maine kids and 13.5% of adults, an […]
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David Treadwell: Overwhelmed by your support
I’m absolutely blown away by the tremendous support I’ve received from family, friends, acquaintances and even strangers to the news that I have been diagnosed with Waldenstrom Macroglobulinemia, a form of Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma (NHL). I wasn’t sure whether to put the news out there on Facebook or this column or other public forums. Tina advised […]
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