‘Freak the Mighty,’ by Rodman Philbrick of Kittery, was published in 1993. It will make its theatrical debut in Cleveland next month, a test run for Broadway.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books, Life & Culture
UMaine professor looks for ghosts in Stephen King’s work
In ‘Monsters in the Archives,’ Caroline Bicks chronicles a year in Stephen King’s archives.
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
The reassuring sound of one man’s life | Opinion
The ch-chink, ch-chink of a passing walker or a cane will always remind me of a man I’m lucky to know.
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
If you want to flip the Senate, you should be voting for Janet Mills | Opinion
We must not squander this chance to oust Sen. Susan Collins by voting for an inexperienced candidate with tons of baggage.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Leslie Bridgers, Life & Culture, Maine
More Mainers are learning to play mahjong, many from Melanie | Column
Hoping to play more while she’s here, a part-time Peaks Island resident started teaching the game. People want in.
Posted inBusiness, News
A lobster turf war is brewing in coastal Maine
A battle between a local co-op and a seafood conglomerate in Spruce Head has escalated from permit disputes to a floating blockade, testing the limits of the working waterfront.
Posted inCommunity
5 takeaways on Augusta’s $97M budget proposal
If approved as-is, the budget could increase property tax levies by about 20%.
Posted inLetters to the Editor
If Trump wants us to pay for war, he should ask us | Letter
We are now entering the second month of Donald Trump’s fraught war of choice and we still have no better idea why we have entered it than when we started. In his meandering speech to the American public April 1, he ping-ponged through a menu of contradictory goals, from “we have already won” to “we […]
Posted inLetters to the Editor
Let’s keep hope alive in Maine | Letter
In the face of our current administration’s daily chaotic, abusive, immoral and inhumane declarations, it is only human to defend oneself by retreating into a kind of numbness. This response is, in fact, a survival instinct — essential to our ability to keep on going. Yet even in this state, I believe we can still […]
Posted inLetters to the Editor
‘No Kings’ makes way for Janet Mills | Letter
The governor knows how to stand up to bullies, something Maine needs in the U.S. Senate.