SKOWHEGAN — Skowhegan Area High School’s class of 1982 reunion committee seeks names, email addresses and/or mailing addresses of all classmates. Either find the group on Facebook or email [email protected].
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‘Enough is enough’
EAST MADISON — The Somerset County Jail has stopped accepting inmates from other counties because of an ongoing battle with state officials about the cost to house them.
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Children’s Museum to hold Run to Play 5k
AUGUSTA — The Children’s Discovery Museum will hold its Run to Play 5k fundraiser Saturday. Registrations begin at 7 a.m. at the YMCA. The Kids Fun Run begins at 8:30 a.m., with the 5k to follow on the Kennebec River Rail Trail. Proceeds will benefit the museum.
Posted inLifestyle
‘In One Person’ Welcome back, Irving fans
BY MARION WINIK Newsday IN ONE PERSON By John Irving Simon & Schuster, $28 New England, Vienna, prep school, wrestling. An absent parent. Amateur theater. Characters who die gruesomely. Characters who are writers. Characters who can’t speak. Welcome back, John Irving fans. In his 13th novel, “In One Person,” we revisit the haunts of the […]
Posted inOpinion
MAINE COMPASS: $41M bond would cut into $150M funding gap for transportation
Last month, the governor and the Legislature agreed on the investments Maine needs to make in its highways and bridges.
Posted inLetters to the Editor, Opinion
We need to stop the abuse of children
When is enough, enough? Another child has died, allegedly at the hands of a parent. We need to stop the abuse of children. Arrest both parents, throw them both in jail and throw away the keys. Stop making excuses for them. If the state Department of Health and Human Services knew about injuries to the […]
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We can’t afford myopic gridlock in DC, Augusta
“Loss of moderates like Snowe means DC stalemates more likely,” reads the headline of an article found on www.pintreewatchdog.org and written by Gordon Weil, of the Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting. Weil continues, “Senate moderates, those who do not follow a strict party line, have declined from 46 in 1977 to only six in […]
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VIEW FROM ELSEWHERE: JPMorgan still thinks it’s too big to fail
For the vast majority of Americans — 99 percent, to borrow a phrase — banking is commercial and relatively simple. A checking account, a savings account, a credit card or two. A mortgage, a small-business loan or a line of credit for daily business cash flow.
Posted inLetters to the Editor, Opinion
Scientific theory is not religion or fairy tale
Albert Boynton’s letter (May 8) about evolution and creationism typifies the misunderstanding of many people about scientific theories as well as the attempt to wrongly characterize it a “fairy tale” or a “religion.” A theory in science is a conceptual model that ties together many observations and research findings to explain significant aspects of nature. […]
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Rules for walking along road; Obama not a Muslim
I have two observations. First, I seem to be seeing more and more people walking the roads along with the flow of traffic, that is, with traffic coming upon them from behind. Adults with children. Joggers. The other day two joggers side by side, so that the outer one was halfway into the travel lane. […]