Earlier this month, the United States Post Office issued stamps to honor the heroic World War II service of Japanese Americans. Hawaii Governor David Ige unveiled the forever stamp that featured Nisei soldier Shiroku “Whitey” Yamamoto, a member of the all-Japanese American 100th Infantry Battalion/442nd Regimental Combat Team whose fighting motto was “Go for Broke.” […]
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Brunswick athletic director Jeff Ramich resigns, accepts assistant principal job at Cony Middle School
Ramich leaves Brunswick after eight years, will transition to an assistant principal job at the Augusta school.
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Letters: Consumer-owned utility will let Mainers take control; Ethyl levulinate critical to fight climate change, Maine economy
Bicyclists, motorists should drive defensively at Brunswick Landing I often ride my bicycle on the Brunswick Landing grounds and I usually see cars and trucks breeze through the stop signs as if they were not there. In one hour of riding I will see two vehicles zip past the signs without any reduction in speed. […]
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The Freeport baseball team comes close (again), but first state championship will have to wait
The Falcons fall short in the state final to Old Town, but vow to be back in 2022.
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Guest column: Maine’s next solar frontier
Community solar farms hold great potential benefits for Maine – if the state does more to guide the industry’s growth.
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John Micek: GOP hits a new low in insurrection denial
So just how desperate are some Republicans to deny the reality of the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol? Desperate enough that 21 of them voted against a slam-dunk of a bill earlier this week awarding one of the country’s highest civilian honors, the Congressional Gold Medal, to the law enforcement officers who defended […]
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Commentary: How Black writers and journalists have wielded punctuation in their activism
Using punctuation and capitalization as a form of protest doesn’t exactly scream radicalism. But in debates over racial justice, punctuation can carry a lot of weight. During the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020, mainstream news organizations grappled with whether to capitalize the first letter of “black” when referring to Black people. Of course, writing […]
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Letters: Preserve downtown Brunswick’s trees
Gary Lawless of Gulf of Maine Books makes a number of good points in his June 16 letter to The Times Record. Chief among them is his sense that the current plan for the downtown sidewalk project, which involves removing several prominent trees, is based on an engineering model that ignores the impact the results […]
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Dick Polman: In the war on American democracy, journalists can’t be neutral
On a podcast the other day, national political reporter Thomas Edsall analyzed the mounting threat of Republican authoritarianism and posed a great question: “Trump and the Republican party have created a real dilemma for the media… A party of sedition is trying to (enact) rules that even when it loses, it wins… We have a […]
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Commentary: Nurturing dads raise emotionally intelligent kids – helping make society more respectful and equitable
When my oldest son, now nearly 13, was born in July of 2008, I thought I could easily balance my career and my desire to be far more engaged at home than my father and his generation were. I was wrong. Almost immediately, I noticed how social policies, schools and health care systems all make […]