Robert Kelley, 77, born in Waterville, was found dead Monday in a hotel room in rural North Dakota and the county coroner there has been unable to find any family to claim his remains, Amy Calder writes.
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Reporting Aside: Mainers use terms that are wicked puzzling to others, and that’s just fine
Folks here have their own way of being in the world, which includes using seemingly odd turns of phrase, Amy Calder writes.
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Reporting Aside: Winslow club planting the seeds for a town to grow
Sue and Rick Dutil started the Winslow Garden Club this year and it now has 19 members doing their part to make the town shine, Amy Calder writes.
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Reporting Aside: Waterville officer stood tall in protecting city, and now others will stand for him
Police Officer Timothy Hinton, who retired Thursday, stands out as a dedicated public servant whose work set an example for others, Amy Calder writes.
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Maine Voices: Maine’s construction industry is ready to build our clean energy future
But if we continue to block large-scale, multi-year infrastructure projects like the New England Clean Energy Connect, our economy will not grow.
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Maine Voices: Supreme Court decision based on sadly outdated ideology
The shock of the Dobbs decision should mobilize people to fight for the whole range of human rights now under threat.
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Commentary: The fight against excessive surveillance continues in Maine and across the country
An effort to close Maine’s ‘fusion center’ stalled in the Legislature, but efforts to limit police use of spy technology have not gone away.
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Maine Voices: Welcoming new Mainers will address our labor shortage
Stalled U.S. immigration policy is limiting Maine businesses’ ability hire the workers they need to grow.
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Maine Voices: Chilling historical echoes in Supreme Court’s anti-privacy agenda
The erosion of civil liberties, tolerated by the most of the public, was how the Nazi regime took control in Germany.
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Maine Voices: James G. Blaine, Maine and the ‘wall of separation’
It’s fitting that the Supreme Court used a Maine case to permit public funding for religious schools since the prohibition got its start with a Maine politician.