I recently called a local department store to see if they sold card tables. When a young woman got on the phone, I asked, “Do you have card tables?” to which she responded, “What are card tables?” to which I sagely replied, “Tables you play cards on.” “Oh,” she said, “you mean tables where the […]

This issue represents the last edition printed during my tenure as editor of The Times Record, as I’m taking another job outside the Masthead Maine network of papers. It’s not easy to leave. I’ve been incredibly blessed to work for this paper that can trace its lineage in the Bath and Brunswick area back for […]

Historic U.S. document could block state anti-abortion efforts

Now that we’ve seen the Supreme Court overturn Roe v. Wade, there are indications that other landmark cases may soon follow. It has been seven years since marriage rights were granted to same-sex couples in the United States in the Obergefell v. Hodges case. In that time, support for same-sex marriage has increased dramatically in […]

After a tumultuous three months, University of Maine System Chancellor Dannel Malloy, hired in 2019, has survived to fight another day – or another year, to be exact. Malloy has been in the crosshairs ever since a botched search ended up selecting, and hiring, a new president for the University of Maine at Augusta who’d […]

My father is turning 89 this week and he’s getting especially sentimental of late. The other day, from his hospital bed, he said he hoped he’d been a good father. He said these words with a hint of doubt in his voice. But he got the question backwards. The question he should be asking is: […]

In the nearly 21 months since the last presidential election, millions of Americans have given the benefit of the doubt to former president Donald Trump as he unleashed a torrent of accusations that his defeat resulted from massive voter fraud, and in an honest process he’d have won a second term. The time has arrived […]

The saga of Emmett Till has once again returned to the public sphere. Till was a 14-year-old boy from Chicago who was visiting relatives in Tallahatchie County, Mississippi, during the summer of 1955. He was kidnapped under cover at night, mercilessly beaten, shot, and thrown into the Tallahatchie River for having the “supposed audacity” to […]