WINSLOW — The Choates’ home on Bassett Road has been foreclosed on before.
Posted inCommunity
Skowhegan recreation seeks volunteers
SKOWHEGAN — The Skowhegan Parks & Recreation Department is accepting volunteer coaching applications for soccer, football, field hockey and cheering.
Posted inCommunity
UMF fall registration now open to public
FARMINGTON — Registra-tion for University of Maine at Farmington fall term courses is now open to the public not enrolled in a UMF program.
Posted inOpinion
Pray on one knee;gossip on hte other
It is amazing how good churchgoing individuals can pray on one knee and then gossip on the other.
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
VIEW FROM ELSEWHERE: Essential Air Service: Boon or boondoggle
It’s called the Essential Air Service, and supporters call it an economic lifeline for small, mostly rural communities. Critics call it a $200 million-a-year federal boondoggle. Like so many issues involved in the debate over cutting federal spending, they are both right — up to a point.
Posted inNews
Unity College president sees a world in trouble
UNITY — Feeling frazzled after the recent spate of temperatures in the 90s?
Posted inOpinion
‘Smart meters’ may be too dangerouse to use
After reading many documented reports about the possible health and safety issues concerning wireless “smart meters,” I am very concerned, and extremely worried, for the wellbeing of us all.
Posted inNews
Social Security disability program goes deeper in red
WASHINGTON — Laid-off workers and aging baby boomers are flooding Social Security’s disability program with benefit claims, pushing the financially strapped system toward the brink of insolvency.
Posted inOpinion
ESSENTIAL AIR SERVICE AIRPORTS — MAINE
Augusta State Airport $1,391,581 Oct. 31, 2014
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
VIEW FROM ELSEWHERE: Not much joy in short-term debt deal
There’s the ideological divide between Republicans and Democrats, which seems to be wider than ever. Then there’s the divide between what Americans say they want and what elected officials in Washington give them.