Last week, CMP held its meeting regarding The Chops tower lights, at the Woolwich Town Hall. The company came well prepared with more than half a dozen experts and staff to address the community about the strobing lights that have been a flashpoint in the daily life of the Merrymeeting Bay and Kennebec residents. And […]

When presidential campaigning began in earnest a year ago, few could have imagined that the first actual voting, in Iowa, would be backgrounded by an impeachment trial. Yet it seems appropriate to our national quandary as Maine voters await their own turn four weeks later. Since the Republican Party lies supine before Donald Trump, the […]

A little more than a month ago, the residents of a city in central China began getting terribly sick with a virus that no one had seen before. As that virus spread, one of the first things that public health officials did was begin to work on a vaccine because vaccines save lives. They are […]

The end of 2019 was not good for Nordic skiing in Maine. Snowstorms were invariably followed by warm weather, rain, or mixed precipitation. Suffering from ski envy, a group of Maine seniors resolved to search for an alternative. Fortunately, a skiing paradise is located just a few hours north in Canada. Eight of us decided […]

Naming running mates now could help older candidates.

The year has come and gone, and with the support of volunteers and community partners, Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program transitioned smoothly into a new decade. Last year our Food Pantry saw record-breaking numbers, and we have had a steady increase in visits year to year since 2016. In 2019, there were 9,800 visits to […]

Do votes really count? As a former instructor and administrator at Southern Maine Community College at Brunswick Landing, I spent many years trying to convince college students to vote. I was shocked by the number of students who said, “My vote doesn’t count.” I assured them it did. The Brunswick School Board’s overriding of the […]

What would you do if you found a tiny baby seal in a harbor and discovered that his mother lay dead nearby, apparently having been shot? George Swallow had that very opportunity on a beautiful Maine day on Bethel Point in May 1971. An animal lover, George did what came naturally. He brought the seal […]

Accidents happen. Anyone who has spent time in a kitchen has cut themselves. Anyone who has ever swung a hammer has found their finger in the path of it. These wounds are unintentional. They happen and they serve to produce a lesson that it is far better to avoid a self-inflicted injury. This is a […]