AUGUSTA — The American Association for State and Local History recently presented the Maine State Museum with two awards for its exhibition project, “Malaga Island, Fragmented Lives.”
October 2013
Posted inCommunity
Antique appraisals offered on Oct. 5
HALLOWELL — An antique appraisal day will take place from 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 5, at the William S. Cohen Community Center, 22 Town Farm Road.
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Posted inEditorials, Opinion
OUR OPINION: Shutdown hits Mainers who rely on government
What do small-business owners, low-income mothers and Acadia National Park and Portsmouth Naval Shipyard employees have in common? All are at risk of being collateral damage from a political war of words that won’t touch its ostensible target: the federal health care reform law known as “Obamacare.”
Posted inLetters to the Editor, Opinion
Time for citizens to revive Clean Election system
Maine the Clean Election State is now forcing all of our would-be governors to engage in a high-stakes money chase.
Posted inLetters to the Editor, Opinion
Hospitals must be denied nonprofit status
Mark Eves, D-North Berwick, is leading a series of roundtable talks with “lawmakers and other public officials” to solve upcoming problems in Maine caused by “powerful demographic forces.”
Posted inOpinion
GEORGE SMITH: Fight against garden marauders adds to pressure of country living
THE LARGE CUCUMBER is held up rather tentatively for Dad’s approval at my vegetable stand in front of Wilson’s Dollar Stores on Winthrop’s Main Street. Dad worked there. The photo, now 55 years old, sits on my bookshelf.
Posted inLetters to the Editor, Opinion
Cruz had forum to offer alternative to Obamacare
The debate about Obamacare has been lacking in reason and nauseatingly familiar in form and substance. Emotion seems to dominate the debate, not fact or logic.
Posted inNews
Bill Nemitz: Sen. Collins hardly a profile in courage during shutdown stalemate
Maybe she thought we weren’t looking.
Posted inBusiness, News
Businesses, brewers, loan seekers among Maine’s affected
Thousands of workers are placed on furlough during the shutdown, and local businesses brace for the economic crunch.