A picture can reveal what a thousand words often miss altogether. On Sept. 14, there appeared a picture in The Times Record of the election season’s first U.S. Senate debate that took place on Sept. 11. There are four candidates in the race. The race is run for the first time in U.S. Senate history […]

In 1965 in Selma, Alabama, following the police attack against civil rights protestors on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. preached, “A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right.” The popular paraphrase of this quotation is “our lives begin to end the day we […]

Who says old people don’t know how to have a good time? A sextet of over seventies recently met on Mount Desert Island for several summer days of biking, sea kayaking and mountain hiking. I call it an outdoor trifecta. Three couples with multiple agendas, we joined up for some activities and went separate ways with […]

Those of us who have experienced cancer know firsthand the havoc it can cause in life. This is where I found myself in 2007, not too long after being diagnosed with stage three non-Hodgkin lymphoma. For the next few years, my doctors’ appointments and treatments became my primary focus. It meant that my career had […]

The battle over Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s successor on the Supreme Court reveals just how much the courts have become part of partisan politics. Presidents can propose justices right up to their last day in office. Historically, Congress has respected judicial appointments made by presidents, even if their views conflicted with the policies of the Senate […]

I suppose that writing about birds in the fall is only natural as this is the season of migration. This week, however, I am happy to focus on a bird that sticks around through the winter. A map of its geographic range actually shows Maine in the year-round purple color rather than the fringe orange […]

Consumer-owned power utility needed in Maine In any story about Central Maine Power, it is important to note that due to U.S. Supreme Court cases decided in the 1920s and 1940s, Hope and Bluefield, the captive customers of any investor-owned utility must pay in full, plus interest, for any and all capital investments. For this […]

Think global, act local, eat local. Then think about saving Maine’s ocean one oyster at a time. Next time you order that perfectly shucked oyster consider this: what you’re consuming is a direct link to the ecosystem that sustains it. Oysters are a keystone species. The coastal ecosystem has allowed them to grow, thrive and […]

For the last 10 years since my closest friend moved to Brunswick, Maine, I have been coming to visit each year and grown very attached to this community. Perhaps the chief attraction for me each summer has been to attend thrilling performances of Broadway-quality productions at Maine State Music Theatre. Over the course of the […]

Sculpture’s destruction a mean-spirited, cowardly act Many people in the area have heard about the arson incident that occurred in Bowdoinham in the early morning hours of Sept. 19. A larger than life sculpture of a donkey, on the lawn of a Bowdoinham home, was burned to the ground. While I share in the sadness […]