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PublishedMay 31, 2013
Belgrade Community Center offers summer activities
BELGRADE -- With summer just around the corner, it is time to start planning family fun-filled days. Located on Great Pond, the Belgrade Community Center for All Seasons has many ways people can have fun, stay fit and appreciate the "beauty" of the lake.
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PublishedMay 31, 2013
USDA seeks members for advisory group
SKOWHEGAN -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture recently published a Notice of Solicitation for Nominations for its Advisory Committee on Minority Farmers for two-year membership terms in the Federal Register, according to a press release.
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PublishedMay 31, 2013
Benefit golf tourneyplanned Saturday
SKOWHEGAN -- A golf tournament to benefit the American Cancer Society is scheduled for Saturday, June 1, at Loon's Cove Golf Course, 942 Waterville Road. Registration opens at 7 a.m., with a start time of 9 a.m. This is an 18-hole, best-ball tournament with a shotgun start.
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PublishedMay 31, 2013
Pew must get facts right on Maine kids’ oral health
In a letter to the editor on May 16, Shelly Gehshan of the Pew Charitable Trusts acknowledged that I was correct in my op-ed column published on May 8. I noted that Pew had made one of the most embarrassing errors in recent public health memory by accidentally inflating untreated tooth decay rates in the U.S. by 600 perrcent, thereby showing that New Zealand schoolchildren have the same level of untreated tooth decay as children in the U.S. This despite universal, government-funded, school-based dental care in New Zealand performed by dental therapists for almost 100 years.
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PublishedMay 31, 2013
Murderers get benefits our senior citizens don’t
An award was given to Dr. Kermit Gosnell for murdering babies. Will Jodi Arias be given the same award for murdering her boyfriend? The award from the taxpayers is free healthcare, free food, free heat, free clothes and the knowledge that they beat the system.
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PublishedMay 31, 2013
Saying yes to money would help 45,000 Mainers
So our governor -- who gets a pension and government paid health insurance for the rest of his life even if he serves only one term -- has decided that 45,000 Mainers who are living in or near poverty will get no help with their health insurance. According to the Center on Budget Priorities, www.cbpp.org/files/healthtoolkit2012/Maine.pdf), the federal government would pay for 45,000 Mainers to get health insurance if LePage said yes. Expanding Medicaid would save the state of Maine $573 million because the federal government would pay the whole cost for this insurance.
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PublishedMay 31, 2013
Federal Medicaid money will help all Mainers
Health care cost is one of the most serious concerns for our country and our state. Yes, we need to pay the hospitals. They continue, in most instances without question, to care for our uninsured and underinsured.
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PublishedMay 31, 2013
Colby commencement reminder it’s all about the people
What makes a traditional college education worth the price? That is the question those of us in higher education are increasingly called upon to answer, as tuition at brick and mortar institutions continues to rise, and as ever more inexpensive on-line college courses become available.
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PublishedMay 30, 2013
U.S. households 55% poorer, on average
Adjusted figures show most of us are finding it tough to recoup our pre-recession wealth.
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PublishedMay 30, 2013
STILL LIFE: Swollen waters
Laura St. Peter, right, stands with her son Vincent Tibbetts, 3, as Brandy Pouliot, far left peers into the swollen Messalonskee Stream from a bench on the new North Street boat launch dock on Thursday. After several days of rain the clouds broke ushering in more summer-like weather with the temperature touching 80 degrees for the next couple of days.
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