Maine ratepayers need a consumer-owned utility Last week while I was working in my yard, I was approached by a gentleman coming up the driveway asking if I had heard about the “power grab.” He handed me an ominous-looking flyer printed with a stop sign and several troubling claims about LD 1708. The bill, if […]

It’s no secret that the COVID-19 pandemic has changed a lot about how we live our lives. Over the last year-and-a-half or so, we have all felt the social, economic, physical and emotional toll of this virus. We have been inundated with reports on death-tolls and updates on the state of our economy; we have […]

Many area residents know that Pine Grove Cemetery, located on Bath Road adjacent to the Bowdoin College campus, is the final resting place of Joshua Chamberlain, hero at the Battle of Little Round Top during the Civil War, governor of Maine and Bowdoin College president. Chamberlain’s wife Francis (“Fanny”), an accomplished painter and musician, shares […]

It’s not about Trump. Joe Biden knows that. So do Joe Manchin and Josh Hawley. It’s about people. Donald Trump exploited the discontentment of many Americans for his own political gain. Even as he fades, the president and the two senators understand those Americans remain the critical center of national politics. In an essay “The Bitter Heartland,” William Galston wrote about the resentment of people who believe they were gradually ignored by the Democratic Party, […]

Need to learn how to unclog a shower drain, jump-start a car, shave your face without bleeding to death or successfully address dozens of other practical adult daily activities? Rob Kenney offers this kind of basic “dad advice” and millions are tuning into his YouTube channel “Dad, How Do I?” to hear it. Kenney, who […]

With legislation recently signed by Gov. Janet Mills, Maine will have a 13th paid state holiday – Juneteenth. And it’s one of just five, along with Veterans Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s, to be celebrated each year on the same date.   The new holiday recognizes the moment on June 19, 1865 when U.S. Major General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas to announce that, by executive order, […]

Brunswick plan could turn downtown into construction site The town of Brunswick is creating a plan to replace the sidewalks of the Maine Street Downtown. In order to do this, they say that they will have to tear out “a majority” or “most” of the trees downtown. This plan seems to be taking shape without […]