Since announcing on Friday my departure at year’s end from MaineToday Media, the company I founded, there comes the inevitable question:
October 2011
Posted inNews
Men don high heels to raise awareness about domestic violence
SKOWHEGAN — Martin Hepburn was among a group of 30 people and one of three men wearing red high heels who walked about one mile in downtown Skowhegan to raise money and awareness to combat domestic violence.
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Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Question 1: What yes and no votes really mean
The hardest thing about Question 1 is knowing what it means to say yes or no.
Posted inOpinion
Inventors needed to help U.S. economy
When oil was still spewing uncontrollably from the Deepwater Horizon well last summer, philanthropist Wendy Schmidt and the X Prize Foundation issued a $1.4 million challenge calling for better technologies to clean up oil spills. Aside from Schmidt’s concern for the environment, the need for innovation in this arena was dire.
Posted inNews
Perfect Storm marks 20th anniversary
If it weren’t for the Perfect Storm, or the book and movie that depicted it, Linda Greenlaw might not be a household name.
Posted inOpinion
Retro sunglasses a relic from New England’s manufacturing past
My husband, Paul, and I have been cleaning out his parents’ house since my mother-in-law died last December.
Posted inNews
Attack on NATO convoy kills 17 in Afghanistan
KABUL, Afghanistan — A Taliban suicide bomber rammed a vehicle loaded with explosives into an armored NATO bus Saturday on a busy thoroughfare in Kabul, killing 17 people, including a dozen Americans, in the deadliest strike against the U.S.-led coalition in the Afghan capital since the war began.
Posted inLetters to the Editor, Opinion
Some facts to crunch on
Paul Douin (letter, Oct. 18) wanted facts, so here they are.
Posted inSports
COMMENTARY — TRAVIS LAZARCZYK: Mt. View enjoys plenty of firsts
On a cold and gray October afternoon, the Mustangs and Ponies played on a field carved out of a horse pasture. It was a fitting site for the first playoff game in Mt. View High School history.
Posted inLetters to the Editor, Opinion
Dishonest politicians lead us down tainted road
Maybe someone could explain something that has irritated me for a long time: How is that a forthright person with any form of honesty and decency can stay faithful to either the Democratic or Republican party knowing full well that they are corrupt and prejudiced.