Hateful or demeaning words are more often broadcast on Twitter from the eastern half of the U.S.
May 2013
Posted inCommunity
Horse club’s annual manure sale Saturday
FARMINGTON — Giddy-Up & Go 4-H Horse Club will hold its annual manure sale from 9 a.m. to noon on Saturday at Genesis Farm, 92 Hammond St., off Route 133. Club members will be on hand to bag manure. Farm owner, Ken Decker, will also be in the cab of his tractor to load trucks and trailers.
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Maine Old Cemetery Weekset for Sunday to May 25
Maine Old Cemetery Association announces the establishment of Maine Old Cemetery Week, May 19-25, 2013, as part of its mission to encourage and support the preservation, maintenance and study of old cemeteries.
Posted inCommunity
BRIDGE RESULTS
AUGUSTA — The Capitol City duplicate bridge club winners on Wednesday were: north/ south — Rosemarie Goodwin and Sharron Hinckley, Diane Bishop and Pat Damon, and Jane Elliott and John Erdman; and east/west — Fred Letourneau and Stan Mathieu, Shirley West and Frank Shorey, and Paul Mitnik and Paul Sherman. The winners on Thursday were Fred Letourneau and Sharron Hinckley, John Erdman and Jane Elliott, and Ben Lund and Fred Lavallee.
Posted inOpinion
JOSEPH REISERT: Experiments in social sciences difficult to devise, conduct
When engineers at Samsung and Apple design a new smartphone, they make use of the latest scientific evidence, the accumulated product of years of careful research. When our public officials design complex, new social policies, however, they rarely have more to go on than ideology, intuition and common sense.
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
OUR OPINION: Abortion bills would erode women’s rights
A trio of bills, each of which takes a different approach to the same goal — restricting access to a safe and legal abortion — is before the Legislature, and we hope lawmakers reject the proposals as indefensible attempts to intrude into women’s lives.
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LAWRENCE HIGH SCHOOL HONOR ROLL
FAIRFIELD — Lawrence High School has announced its third-quarter honor roll.
Posted inLetters to the Editor, Opinion
RSU 18 has worked hard to reduce costs
RSU 18 School Board members, parents, teachers and administrators have worked for months on next year’s proposed budget, which strikes a balance between the ability to provide quality education and the need to control costs.
Posted inLetters to the Editor, Opinion
We need strict laws to regulate open-pit mining
I recently attended a public hearing on a bill before the Environmental and Natural Resources Committee, L.D. 1302, which addresses both environmental and financial concerns relating to open pit mineral mining in Maine, and which calls for more protections than currently required.
Posted inLetters to the Editor, Opinion
Education in RSU 18 communities threatened
We all want our children to have a great education. Our family-centered community wants to see every child learn and grow and succeed.