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2020
Posted inOutdoors, Sports
More Mainers taking up paddlesports during pandemic
Even in a down year for tourism, many businesses catering to kayakers and paddleboarders are able to stay afloat.
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Posted inSports, Varsity Maine
Game on? Prospects for fall sports vary widely in U.S.
Several states won’t be playing tackle football at high schools this season; in Maine, guidelines will likely become more clear this week.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Maine, News
Maine Media Workshops receives its largest grant
The $1.125 million gift will help bolster the Rockport school’s Arnold Newman Prize in Photographic Portraiture.
Posted inColumns, J.P. Devine
J.P. Devine: We gotta get outta here
Thinking of all the places he’s been, and how badly he wanted to leave, J.P. Devine muses on the only other destination available right now.
Posted inBicentennial, Maine, News
On this date in Maine history: August 16
Aug. 16, 1941: President Franklin D. Roosevelt arrives in Rockland aboard the presidential yacht Potomac. He recently returned to the United States from a shipboard meeting off the coast of Newfoundland with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. At that meeting, Churchill and Roosevelt drafted the Atlantic Charter, which mapped out the Allied World War II […]
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Insight: Getting our house in order
Black lives won’t matter until we answer for the sins of slavery.
Posted inMaine, News, Schools and Education
For Maine families with means, pandemic pods lessen the stress of back-to-school
Desperate for child care or help with remote learning, some families are hiring teachers or tutors for the fall. But pods also raise concerns about equity and lack of access to support for low-income and vulnerable families.
Posted inArts & Entertainment
Going home to a papermaking past, Maine native embarks on a deeply personal journey
Kerri Arsenault, who grew up in Rumford-Mexico, draws attention to a Faustian bargain with her investigative memoir.