Local singer-songwriter Jud Caswell performs in Brunswick on Saturday and proceeds benefit Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program and the Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project.
2022
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Commentary: Yes, Jan. 6 really was a big deal
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Posted inMeetinghouse, Opinion
Lee Van Dyke, Portland: A quick and literal lesson in rolling with the punches
There was a new kid in our town. Like small towns everywhere in the early ’60s we were a settled-in group (you’d say, “inbred”). The same kids were in Washington and Lincoln grade schools from K-6 and collected to become the seventh grade at Jefferson School. A presidential bunch with nobody fooled. The athletic teams, organizations […]
Posted inMeetinghouse, Opinion
Regi Robnett, Portland: New home yields fool’s gold and real treasure
I’ve been the new kid many times, including moves to new states and one totally foreign country (the USA), but the most memorable experience was when I was 9 years old. We had just moved to Vermont, and I fell instantly in love with the Green Mountain State. Being an outdoorsy sort of girl, I […]
Posted inMaine Voices, Op-Eds, Opinion
Maine Voices: When it comes to COVID safety, Italy is in another world
Visitors from Maine find that another nation has coped better with the pandemic than our own, largely by virtue of people simply cooperating.
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: Legacy of Jan. 6 should be voting rights
If Maine Sen. Susan Collins and other Republicans continue to block these protections, then the mob will have won.
Posted inJ.P. Devine, Movie Review J.P. Devine, Things to Do
‘Being the Ricardos’ not very exciting, but yours to judge
It’s not that I didn’t “Love Lucy,” I didn’t know Lucy. I never saw the show when it began. The show debuted in 1951, and was a big hit and ran until 1957. I wasn’t watching television in those days. I went from Air Force basic training in the Texas desert to Korea/Japan, with no […]
Posted inJ.P. Devine, Movie Review J.P. Devine, Things to Do
‘The Food That Built America’ explores the foods we grew up with in a new light
Way back in 2019, before COVID fell on us, we were all going to the movies, and no one was sitting home locked away from viruses in the streets very few Americans were streaming their televisions desperate for something different. Meanwhile, while Notre Dame Cathedral was burning down, Brexit upended British politics, the 20-year war […]
Posted inThings to Do
L/A Community Little Theatre to stage ‘Let It Be’
L/A Community Little Theatre plans to will open it’s 82nd season with the Maine premier of “Let It Be,” a story of love, loss, family and hope told through the music of the Beatles. The play will opens Friday, Jan. 13, under the direction of Jennifer Groover and musical direction of Steven Barter. The show […]
Posted inObituaries
Obituary: Carl E. Morang
CHELSEA – Carl E. Morang, 83, passed peacefully on Dec. 23, 2021, while in hospice care at Togus VA. Second son …