On the way to Skowhegan for our weekly peace vigil, I was thinking that I needed a new sign.
August 2012
Posted inNews
‘Bert and I’ may be heading to silver screen
PORTLAND — Bert and I, the celebrated Maine humor albums created by Marshall Dodge and Bob Bryan when they were Yale University students in 1958, may be headed to the big screen.
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Posted inEditorials, Opinion
OUR OPINION: Schools chief may be right, but forum was wrong
Brunswick Superintendent Paul Perzanoski got off a couple of good lines in his Aug. 17 letter welcoming teachers back to school.
Posted inLetters to the Editor, Opinion
A day in Winthrop the way life in Maine should be
The tent was up, tables set and the food was being set out when I arrived at the Ramblers’ football field. Then the fun really began at the first Barbecue and Gumbo Family Festival to End Hunger. But let me start a bit earlier.
Posted inLetters to the Editor, Opinion
Front page photo not a good model for boaters
The front page of the Aug. 18 Kennebec Journal had a photo that should not become a model for boaters in Maine. It showed a man giving his 6-year-old son a ride in a kayak on a large lake. Neither person crowded into this tipsy watercraft was wearing a life jacket, and no floatation devices were visible in the deck bungee cords.
Posted inLetters to the Editor, Opinion
Pouliot is ideal candidate to represent Augusta
Each election, we must ask ourselves what type of person we should send to the state Legislature.
Posted inNews
Police Report: Mount Vernon man faces fugitive charge
FARMINGTON — A Mount Vernon man wanted as a fugitive for not registering as a sex offender turned himself in to authorities Tuesday, police said.
Posted inPolitics
Romney: Mormon charity makes me reluctant to release tax returns
The Republican presidential candidate said he doesn’t want people to know how much he’s given to the Mormon church.
Posted inNews
Hollywood? Come to think of it, you can get there from here: ‘Bert and I’ stories may go big screen
PORTLAND — Bert and I, the celebrated Maine humor albums created by Marshall Dodge and Bob Bryan when they were Yale University students in 1958, may be headed to the big screen.
Posted inNews
Maine State Employees union endorses Dill
AUGUSTA — When the time came to endorse candidates for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Republican Olympia Snowe, the union that represents 15,000 of the state’s public and private employees had two choices.