University of Maine Cooperative Extension 4-H will offer more than 50 summer learning activities throughout July and August for all youth ages 5 to 18, according to a news release from the UMaine Extension office in Orono. UMaine Extension 4-H staff and volunteers will offer a wide variety of experiential learning workshops both online and […]
2020
Posted inNation & World, News
The Latest: Confirmed coronavirus cases are rising in 40 of 50 states
The latest on the coronavirus pandemic around the U.S. and the world. FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The number of confirmed coronavirus cases per day in the U.S. climbed to an all-time high of more than 50,000 on Thursday, with the infection curve rising in 40 out of 50 states in a reversal that has largely […]
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OFF RADAR: ‘Mast Year: poems’
Katherine Hagopian Berry’s first collection of poetry
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: Portland weighs complex issue of school safety
The Board of Education’s 7-2 votes to end its contract for school-based police in response to community concerns.
Posted inMeetinghouse, Opinion
Dinah Crader Johnson, Gorham: What was given comes back, full circle
As an anthropologist, I am keenly aware that there are at least two different kinds of inheritance: biological and cultural. I inherited my strawberry-blond hair and blue eyes from my WASP-y ancestors who came from Scandinavia and Great Britain. My younger son inherited these same traits from me, along with my allergy to penicillin (poor […]
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Linda Penkalski, Lamoine: A mom’s real legacy is the person you become
On April 17, my mom, Rhoda Schneider, 97 years old, passed away due to COVID-19. She had been living in an assisted living center in Michigan near my youngest sister. It has been very surreal as I could not fly out to visit her when she first got sick and we had a Zoom funeral […]