Now is not the time to put an additional financial burden on Maine residents, Maine retailers, Maine small business owners. Our state legislature is continuing to examine the benefits of doubling the tax rate on all tobacco products in this year’s legislative session. Instead of a $2 per pack tax on a pack of cigarettes, […]
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The Maine Idea: Battle over CMP ratchets up again
Mainers have long had a love-hate relationship with Central Maine Power Co. – more often the latter – and this year’s legislative session marks another chapter in a marriage that may still avoid divorce. The company that engineer Walter Wyman began putting together in 1899 is a dominant utility in a small state, serving four of five Mainers. It’s weathered many crises before, including […]
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Local roundup: Lisbon baseball edges NYA/Waynflete
Mason Booker drives in go-ahed run in sixth inning for Greyhounds.
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Bowdoin College hires new women’s basketball coach
Eastern Nazarene coach Sacha Santimano will replace Adrienne Shibles.
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Softball: Buckfield tops Richmond, moves on to D South semifinals
Bucks score three runs with two outs in the fifth inning to edge Bobcats.
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Lisbon embracing first girls track and field state title in program history
The Greyhounds received strong performances from several athletes to pull away from Winslow.
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Commentary: Tutoring, longer days, summer sessions may be needed to catch students up after the pandemic
The big idea: The COVID-19 pandemic has led to substantial reductions in student learning in metro-Atlanta public elementary and middle schools. What’s more, these impacts have grown over time, according to our new research. By winter of 2020-21, we found that average math achievement within a grade was up to seven months behind where students […]
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Letters: Frank J. Wood Bridge should be preserved; Take a few steps and help save the Post Office
Frank J. Wood Bridge should be preserved Frank J. Wood was a Topsham farmer and a papermaker at the Bowdoin Paper Company who was very active in civic affairs. At present, he is most well known as the man who, in 1930, convinced the Maine State Highway Commission to build the bridge across the Androscoggin […]
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Peter Funt: There’s too much breaking news to bear
Lost in the press of recent world events was news from Washington state about a dramatic jury trial resulting in the conviction of a 77-year-old Ilwaco woman, who now faces a maximum penalty of 90 days in jail and/or a fine of up to $1,000. Doris Parks pleaded not guilty, just as she did back […]
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Local roundup: Brunswick softball cruises to Class A North prelim win over Cony
Ellie Sullivan gets the win for the Dragons.