How to humble a wing nut
The good news is that wing nuts usually don’t matter. The bad news is that they influence people who do.
View ArticlePortland’s Otto Pizza to join Five Guys, El Rodeo in growing South Portland...
SOUTH PORTLAND, Maine — The city’s restaurant scene has been expanding throughout the spring, but city councilors are not always as effusive as Councilor Linda Cohen was Monday night about one...
View ArticlePortland doubles its spending on road paving; drivers worry about additional...
PORTLAND, Maine — Expect to see road crews out in force over the coming months. Last week, the city’s Department of Public Services began work on a $3 million effort to repave and make other...
View ArticleCumberland school board approves payment for hastily installed security system
CUMBERLAND, Maine — After deadlocking earlier this month on paying for school security equipment that had already been installed, the School Administrative District 51 Board of Directors approved the...
View ArticleMessalonskee’s Dexter, South Portland’s Richards key first-year contributors...
GORHAM, Maine — University of Southern Maine baseball coach Eddie Flaherty is giving shortstop Sam Dexter the highest of compliments when he calls him “the best freshman I’ve ever had.” Flaherty is in...
View ArticleGenerosity floods survivors of Oklahoma tornado
MOORE, Okla. — The FM radio airwaves in Moore and adjoining Oklahoma City were clogged Tuesday with pastors, church members and ordinary citizens phoning in to offer food and shelter to neighbors left...
View ArticleBucksport’s Wood enjoying the professional cage in MMA bouts
LEWISTON, Maine — Ray “All Business” Wood doesn’t see a mere opponent standing across the cage from him when he visualizes an upcoming mixed martial arts bout. “Sitting in the hotel room, all kinds of...
View ArticleNo Bugs,No Brookies,ButaBass
I have been so bad this spring about getting out to go fishing. Not enough time..too cold..too busy..too many excuses.. So yesterday morning I decided that I had exhausted all acceptable reasons not to...
View ArticleBelfast Garden Club Reports Successful Plant Sale. Significant Funds Raised...
Thanks to a major effort from private donors, local nurseries and Garden Club members, the Belfast Garden Club’s Green Thumb Annual Plant Sale brought in over $3,000.00. The proceeds from the sale...
View ArticleWith help from community, Lewiston fire victims putting lives, homes back...
LEWISTON, Maine — Weeks after fires destroyed downtown apartment buildings, displacing as many as 200 people, families are finally finding themselves at home again. On Tuesday afternoon, only five...
View ArticleChicago’s Quintana pitches six no-hit innings in win over Red Sox
CHICAGO — Jose Quintana needed some help to finish it off, but his impressive outing for the Chicago White Sox on Tuesday night didn’t go to waste. Quintana picked up his third win of the season by...
View ArticleBruins rally by Rangers, take 3-0 series lead
NEW YORK — One of the universal truths in the Stanley Cup playoffs is that the teams that receive secondary scoring are usually the ones that win games and series. It is an axiom that the Boston Bruins...
View ArticleMaine tax overhaul would raise sales tax, cut almost all income-tax deductions
The bill helps solve a current state budget shortfall of more than $800 million that lawmakers are trying to close as the end of the state’s fiscal year approaches on June 30.
View ArticleWhat to do with Asparagus
It’s asparagus season and thanks to my husband Barry, this wonderful vegetable grows right in our backyard. I’m sure I’ve never had any quite as delicious as when he cooks it fresh from the garden. The...
View ArticleThe White House to-do list
When White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough told his colleagues last week to spend no more than 10 percent of their time responding to scandals, he didn’t know a tornado would devastate entire...
View Article240 in 24 on 6/4 for COA
College Challenged to Raise 240 Gifts in 24 Hours on June 4 BAR HARBOR, ME—A donor to College of the Atlantic has offered a challenge: “Collect 240 gifts in 24 hours and I will give you $24,000.” COA...
View ArticleLewiston targets fake pot, bath salts
LEWISTON, Maine — Police are calling for local rules that ban bath salts and other synthetic drugs, closing a gap in federal and state rules. “We are seeing this stuff in the stores locally, and it is...
View ArticleThere was standing room only for the heroes of Chancellorsville
“Through smoke and fire and shot and shell, unto the very walls of hell, we did stand and we did stay, in that Virginia field so far away”: Thus does a paraphrased verse from John Tam’s “Over the Hills...
View ArticleStepping out of one’s comfort zone can bring personal rewards
It’s been suggested that I must be strong or crazy to spend hundreds of hours supporting most of my 200 pounds of body weight upon the narrow hardness of a bicycle seat. After consideration, though, my...
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