Ours is a second marriage, 33 years and still going strong. Tina and I each have two sons, and they’ve known each other since they were in elementary school back in Cockeysville, Maryland, a suburb of Baltimore. They played on many teams together, most notably the Gilman School swim team. In fact, the four of […]
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Gordon Weil: America’s culture of political violence
Ballots, not bullets. A government of laws, not men. When politicians talk about the nation’s shared values, that’s part of what they mean – a non-violent, lawful, democratic system of government. What we really get is something much different. Four presidents assassinated plus 15 threatened. Historic assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King. Threats […]
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New Maine Coast Heritage Trust leader settles into role
Kate Stookey, who took over as president of Maine Coast Heritage Trust in February, fell in love with the outdoors as a child in Blue Hill.
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Douglas Rooks: Tale of a smartphone and a giant tree
As we head toward Labor Day weekend, the traditional end of summer, at least in New England, it’s worth taking stock of where we are. Last year at this time, I express some guarded optimism about the possibilities of working people getting a fair shake from employers, and from their fellow laborers. It was already […]
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Tom Purcell: When it comes to boys, schools are flunking
I trekked to St. Germaine School every morning in my sturdy Buster Brown shoes. Designed for rough-and-tumble boys, these heavy-duty shoes could take a scuffing and, with a good polishing, keep on shining — pretty much the way rambunctious kids like me were able to do in our elementary school years. The good sisters who […]
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Hectic high school golf season opens at Augusta Country Club
Season that starts early and comes fast teed off Wednesday in Manchester.
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State parks on pace for another record year
COVID-19 restrictions are largely a thing of the past, but the influx of visitors to Maine State Parks that started as a response to pandemic isolation hasn’t slowed.
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Intertidal: Unique vision traits in marine life above and below water
Sometimes it would be nice to have a third eye. Think of all the things you could see with a little more perspective. It would certainly be helpful out on the water when things are always happening in every direction — fish jumping, weather changing, boats coming by. Fishermen often talk about having their head […]
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Jase Graves: And then there was one teenager left at home
In recent days, the hormonal distribution in my household has become slightly more balanced as two of my three teenage daughters and several lines of credit are now off attending college. This means that when I’m at home, I only receive the contemptuous side-eye from my wife, my youngest daughter, two female dogs and a […]
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The Conversation: Ukrainian people are resisting the centuries-old force of Russian imperialism
THE CONVERSATION — The war being waged by Russia in Ukraine has been described in many ways – an attempt to recreate the USSR, a militant attempt to create a new Eurasia civilization, or a proxy war between Russia and the West. But whatever Russian President Vladimir Putin’s ambitions and aspirations were in the past, they have become ever […]