March 2012
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Gardening experts urge caution with early spring
Maine gardeners shouldn’t get too excited about the unseasonably warm weather in recent days. Anything planted too early could die.
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Road project up for vote
SIDNEY — Voters at Town Meeting on Saturday will decide whether to approve a major road project and capital spending at a town building.
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Mayors: State dumps care for poor on cities
AUGUSTA — The mayors of 10 major Maine cities, including Augusta and Waterville, have formed a coalition to push back against what they see as a continuing shift of the costs to municipalities and taxpayers.
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Work done in room more important than room itself
Would it be OK with everyone to allow Augusta City Councilor Michael Byron and past City Councilor Mary Mayo-Wescott a chance to reverse their position on allowing the school board to use council chambers for their meetings? The Board of Education, which currently meets in the high school cafeteria, wants to make similar use of […]
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Look at the facts since Obama became president
President John Adams once said, “Facts are stubborn things.” The price of gas when Barack Obama became president was $1.84 a gallon; look at the price now. The national debt when Obama became president was $10 trillion; look at the debt now. The unemployment rate when Obama became president was 7.8 percent. Since then, the […]
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Longtime lawmaker Samuel Collins dies
ROCKLAND — Samuel Collins Jr., a longtime legislator and former Maine supreme court justice, has died. He was 88. Attorney Stephen Hanscom, who worked with Collins for a number of years, said Collins died Thursday at his home in Rockland.
Posted inLetters to the Editor, Opinion
Letter mourning loss of house a very nice letter
I’m writing to tell Sheila Hanley her letter, “Mourning the loss of a grand old house” (Feb. 28) was a very nice letter. I also want her to know I would not make fun of her or anybody who felt that way about a building. I too mourned the loss of a building in a […]
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Winthrop Grade School remembers Mr. G with spelling bee
WINTHROP — Have I told you that I like you yet today?
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Investigative journalism piece good to see in KJ
It was refreshing to see a resumption of investigative journalism in the March 19 newspaper: “Watchdogs fault state for lax ethical oversight.” We certainly need more of same. Many feel the failure of the fourth estate on a national level (no doubt because of insider control of all major news media) is a leading cause […]