Letter
2020
Posted inBill Nemitz, Maine, News, Op-Eds, Opinion
Bill Nemitz: Lucky Maine – a true leader when we need one most
While President Trump and Paul LePage call her a ‘dictator,’ Gov. Janet Mills calmly navigates the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Posted inArts & Entertainment, Maine
Maine Jewish Museum opens pop-up gallery in Portland
While its Congress Street building is closed for repairs, the museum will show exhibitions on Washington Avenue.
Posted inBicentennial, Maine, News
On this date in Maine history: July 16
July 16, 1915: Ellen Gould Harmon White, 88, a co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church who was born in Gorham and raised in Portland, dies in California. Raised in the Methodist church, she suffered permanent disfigurement at the age of 9 when another girl threw a stone at her face and broke her nose. White […]
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Portland police chief: ‘The police are the public and the public are the police’
This concept represents the basic relationship between our police officers and our communities. We stand with you because we are you.
Posted inBusiness, Maine, News
Maine’s days as 207 are numbered, because the area code’s ‘exhausted’
The state is running out of usable phone numbers to assign to its beloved area code, forcing regulators to consider adding a second one.
Posted inMeetinghouse, Opinion
Anne Holliday Abbott, Portland: My father passed down blue eyes, and a singular outlook
My father, Samuel Holliday, had deep-set blue eyes that were the kind that threw you off. You never knew what he was thinking. Statistically only 8 percent of the world’s population has blue eyes, and it is believed that all blue-eyed people have one common European ancestor. These rarities fit well with the mercurial and […]