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An education bill with serious flaws
By Audrey Buffington - Feb 03The second session of the Maine 125th Legislature is busy as can be. Just the Education and Cultural Affairs Committee has so many bills that it ...
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The full promise of Many Flags/One Campus
By Loren Andrews - Jan 29"Really?" "That's right." "You mean my kids could walk across the campus and be in a college class just like that?" "Yup." "You mean they could ...
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The boy
By Bill Packard - Jan 13There are things that happen in life and emotions that just sneak up on you. You think you’re prepared and then out of the blue a sucker punch ...
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The 'quality' of life
By Ron Horvath - Dec 28On “Small business Saturday” Robin and I walked the streets of Rockland to do our part for the economy going from store to store, shopping, ...
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Why do humans kill each other?
By Phil Croce - Dec 26Why do humans kill each other? Our own species after all. We are animals, of course, and if we look at other animals and examine in what cases a ...
Prevent snow-shoveling and snow-blowing injuries
By Joseph Scordino, MD - Dec 22Though the weather may be mild now, we know there are many winter months ahead of us. It is important to remember that shoveling and blowing snow ...
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Focus on education: 'Readers First' needs you
By Loren Andrews - Dec 16You cannot learn if you cannot read. It is as simple as that. Or, as they say in the early grades: At first you are learning to read, and then you ...
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Drug testing: Things are upside down
By Bill Packard - Dec 15Once again one of Governor Paul LaPage’s proposals is causing a big controversy. While I don’t personally care for confrontation, sometimes ...
Amazon’s Jungle Logic
By Richard Russo - Dec 15This column, which first appeared in the New York Times on Dec. 12, is reprinted here with permission. I first heard of Amazon’s new “promotion” ...
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Fluoride and its health benefits
By Philip W. Higgins, ... - Dec 10I’ll be turning 60 next month and for the most part, I feel great. I have the interest and energy to do everything I enjoy and after 32 years of ...
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Supporting a community trail system
By Jeff Kuller - Nov 11How does a recreational trail network bring economic development to a small New England community? That was the topic of a presentation at the ...
Building new traditions, new successes, at all levels
By Loren Andrews - Nov 07Hearing from students and parents across the district, this fall has been a resounding success for our two new Oceanside high schools.Oceanside ...
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Vote yes on Camden's fire truck proposal
By Chris Farley - Oct 31On Nov. 8, the Camden Fire Department is asking Camden residents to vote yes on the municipal ballot's Question 2: Shall the Town approve the ...
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Same day voter registration: Case in point
By David Lyman - Oct 29I have a personal relationship with the abolishment of “same day voter registration.” I’m against it; rather, I’m for reinstating it. Last fall, ...
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New Rockland Public Works facility a necessity
By Tom Molloy - Oct 28I urge all Rockland voters to approve the Public Works Facility bond issue this November. For the past 2.5 years, the City of Rockland Public ...
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The hedgehog moon
By Kendall Merriam - Oct 22For Phyllis The bright full moon looks down On all hedgehogs And tries to protect them Against all comers Particularly if they are ...
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Future of Hope Town Office in voter's hands
By Hope Board of Selectmen - Oct 20The future of the Hope Town Office will rest in the hands of Hope’s voters on Nov. 8 when Question 3 asks residents if they wish to renovate the ...
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Remembering cancer
By Jory Squibb - Oct 15Brenda and I decided to go up to Lewiston-Auburn and do the Dempsey Challenge. This is a money-raising bike ride for the the Dempsey Center, a ...
This is not goodbye
By Donna Culbertson - Oct 14It was a cold, snowy day on my first day at The Camden Herald on Nov. 14, 1981. I had started going to school to become a nurse and needed to work ...
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Knox County bond: Do the facts support it?
By Linwood Lothrop - Oct 14In just a few short weeks the citizens of Knox County will go to the polls to weigh in on a $2.5 million dollar bond for the expansion of the Knox ...
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A day of fog and beauty
By Kendall Merriam - Oct 10For Shubhra Chand A Japanese painting closed in I cannot see the ocean One hundred yards away Yet from across the world Comes ...
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Spirit of Oceanside High is alive and well
By Michael McGuire - Oct 08It’s working just great! Make no mistake about it, as far as the students who each day traverse the halls of Oceanside High School on Broadway ...
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Robert Shetterly Speaks
Sep 29There are few more important issues than the role of the media in our culture. Sept. 10, 2011 I want to mention the heightened ...
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Knox County should not be pawn in political game
By Brian Harden, mayor ... - Sep 24On Tuesday, the Maine Legislature will vote on a map that will redraw the lines of our state's congressional districts. Legislative Republicans ...
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Address Old County Road traffic problems now, not later
By Rick Stuart - Sep 16As a homeowner on Old County Road, I am concerned about the traffic problems that have developed over the years on Old County Road, and will be ...
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A comedy of errors
By Barbara F. Dyer - Sep 07On Aug. 24, I attended the annual meeting of the Camden-Rockport Historical Society, which I have been doing for a number of years as a paying ...
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What is the Teaparty?
By Gordon Colby - Sep 03After listening to erroneous and uninformed commentary from many sources about the Teaparty I feel that it is incumbent upon myself to be a source ...
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Thoughts on filling out a two-hour-long insurance form
By Philip C. Groce - Aug 30Consider that we humans are an ancient lot and genetically the same as those in the Stone Age thousands of years ago. Back then, time was noted by ...
The Commander
By Kendall Merriam - Aug 28He stands at watch Like the Commander of a great ship Responsible for the forward offense Of government plans He can give directions for ...
What are you, South Dakota?
By Jo Dondis - Aug 19We finally saw Arkansas in Rockport. If the fog hadn’t just lifted I would not have believed it: Pristine in black, red and gradations of blue and ...
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Elegy for a Blue Jay
By Kendall Merriam - Aug 19For Kristen Lindquist and Sue Shane Our money cat Phyllis calls “Girl Cat” Brought us a gift And left it right in front of the Hosta ...
Personal history: Roger Cartwright, spreading joy through dance
By Steve Cartwright - Aug 17Roger Cartwright, 88, died quietly at his Amherst, Mass., home on Aug. 9, 2011, his granddaughter Chelsea by his side.He was a Johnny Appleseed of ...
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The Second Great Contraction
By Kenneth Rogoff - Aug 16Why is everyone still referring to the recent financial crisis as the “Great Recession”? The term, after all, is predicated on a dangerous ...
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Lack of transparency in Wal-Mart process
By Albie Davis - Aug 15On July 19, a public Planning Board hearing on the economic impact of the proposed Wal-Mart superstore in Thomaston was held. I am one of many ...
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Snow Bowl multi-use, Nordic trail: Clarifying the record
By Jeff Kuller - Aug 05I would like to correct and clarify recent information you may have read or heard about the new multi-season, multi-use trail planned for construct...
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Supporting local foods in the Farm Bill
By Chellie Pingree - Jul 31When I moved to Maine as a teenager in 1971, big business, and big subsidies, was just beginning to define American agriculture. Instead of small, ...
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Sen. Snowe pursues interstate truck weight regulations
By Sen. Olympia J. Snowe - Jul 29Families all across our country are enduring an extended economic downturn unlike anything we have ever seen before. Unemployment continues above ...
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Remembering Alice Skinner — A dynamic Maine lady
By Pat Crosby - Jul 28As we all know ... life can be unsettling. So, “thank you” Alice Skinner for your insight, determination and hard work to share how to live a ...
Love, the Bus: Getting our wheels under ourselves
By Tyler Dunham - Jul 22At this hour of the evening, New Hampshire's Whites look like the Carolinas' Blue Ridge. Chartreuse, our bus, made it to the heart of the White ...
Alternative lodge design for Camden Snow Bowl
By Stephen Smith, ... - Jul 22The Ragged Mountain Redevelopment Association has worked hard over the past two and half years developing a master plan and raising money for the ...
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Ragged Mountain redevelopment success dependent on community support
By Rick Knowlton - Jul 22The recreation facilities at Ragged Mountain mean many things to many people. Whether you have skied, hiked, biked, tobogganed, paddled, played ...
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Who is Anonymous?
By Kendall Merriam - Jul 05We see it sprinkled through the New York Times Or even the Bangor Daily News People afraid to speak out Clearly by name Fearful and ...
Historic Knox Hotel gets energy efficiency makeover
By Brooke Williams - Jun 26In 1978, David Twombly was driving through Thomaston and saw a for sale sign on the Knox Hotel on Main Street. “The 1915 building was about to ...
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Fueling summer safety
By David McCaskill - Jun 25One look at the rising mercury is a reminder that summer is here, time mow the lawn and cool off when the chores are done with a boat ride around ...
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To the citizens of Rockport
By Dale Landrith, Jr. - Jun 23I have served on the Rockport Select Board for two years and was on the Budget Committee for one year prior to my election to the Select Board. ...
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Constitutional amendment right tool for investment in natural resource management
By Sen. David Trahan - Jun 17A few constituents have asked why I sponsored LD 563, “Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of Maine To Use a Portion of the Sales and Use ...
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Shaping an efficient school system that provide high-quality education
By Dale E. Landrith, Sr. - Jun 10As part of his statewide tour seeking input on educational issues, Commissioner of Education Steve Bowen was in Camden on May 17 at the Camden-Rock...
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The Tannery property sale process and Warrant Articles 6A, 6B
By Brian S. Hodges - Jun 10The voters of Camden have some important decisions to make at the June 15 town meeting, including those regarding the former Apollo Tannery ...
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Doris Vertz: Will work to build credibility, trust and unity
By Doris Vertz - Jun 10Doris Vertz, your neighbor down the street, a lifelong registered nurse and your candidate for the Union Board of Selectmen, has listened to you ...
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Preserve tannery referendum. Vote no on 6A and 6B
By Nancy Caudle-Johnson - Jun 10At Camden Town Meeting, June 15, voters will be asked to rescind their Nov. 4, 2008 approval (1,745 yes, 997 no) of a measure requiring that "any ...
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Contemplating Shakespeare on my 69th birthday
By Kendall Merriam - Jun 05I do not feel old Being Jean Lawrence’s lover in Midsummer The humor, the passion, the history, the sad events Of the Bard’s imagination An...
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Don White: Advocate of transparency
By Don White - Jun 04I am Don White, a candidate for the Camden Select Board in the June 14 election. I’m a 20-year resident of Camden, a retired sales and marketing ...
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Eliza Haselton: Will keep eye on budget; supports quality education, clear discipline policies
By Eliza Haselton - Jun 03Last week, I watched two recent films on education in America: "Waiting for Superman" and "The Race to Nowhere." The films explored issues with ...
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William Chapman: Rockport at a crossroads
By William Chapman - Jun 03Rockport is at a crossroads, both literally and figuratively. While we sit at the junction of most of the major roads in the Midcoast region, we ...
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Budgets and education excellence
By Alexander Armentrout - Jun 01The 2011-12 proposed School Administrative District 28 and Five Town CSD budgets have been completed. The budget meetings for both entities will ...
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Dad's Memorial Day flight
By Cathy Lickteig Makofski - May 30My brothers and I grew up during the 1950s and 60s in Albert Lea, Minn., population 20,000. Our family home, built in 1912, was a four-story ...
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Helping out the state of Maine
By Dennis Lopez - May 23I realize our trusty State House is toiling away, wrestling with knotty questions, such as who can use what bathroom, whether the Whoopee Pie ...
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Development for Camden
By Brian Hodges - May 23March 14, 2011. I’ll never forget that date: My first day on the job as Camden’s development director. After working in Maine state government for ...
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A typewriter song
By Kendall Merriam - May 22My wife, Phyllis Bought this machine for me in 1970 or ‘71 It turned me from an amateur Onto the long road as a professional Writing all ...
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It happened at town meeting
By Bill Packard - May 14I know that as you read this some towns have already had their town meeting, but for most of the towns, it’s a month or so away. Every piece of ...
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Composting. It’s not just a good idea
By Mark A. King - May 13As spring approaches, chilly nights and frozen grounds reluctantly give way to warm, sunny skies and lush regrowth of native flora. During this ...
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From the front row
By Andy Schlebecker - May 13I’ve lived in Camden since sixth grade. I’ve made lifelong friends here, started an organization here, and am now graduating from high school ...
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Maine. Open for Business. Drug business
By Ann Ryan - May 09I am a grateful reader of your publication and always look forward to Village Soup's editorials. However, I am more than perplexed to find that ...
Spring ramble
By Steve Cartwright - May 08Man's heart away from nature becomes hard — Chief Standing Bear Spring comes again, so welcome after the long winter wait. I take random ...
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With bin Laden's death, a sense of closure
By Bill Packard - May 06I really feel the need to write this, but I don’t know how to begin. So many thoughts and feelings with no specific direction. I guess I’ll just ...
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Churchill responds
By Jack Churchill - May 04Unfortunately, I missed the Kangaroo Court held at the Camden Select Board meeting last night [May 3]. I wasn’t invited, or even notified. That’s ...
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The rest of the story in Rockport
By Robert H. Nichols - May 02At the April 11, 2011 meeting of the Rockport Select Board, a motion was made and approved to not renew the contract of Robert Peabody, town ...
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Tannery agreement does not protect Camden, Part II
By Nancy Caudle-Johnson - May 02The first amended purchase and sales agreement signed with B'D' Turman'd Entertainment has holes big enough for a herd of elephants to pass ...
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Maine Republicans offer tax-cut package to benefit everyone
By By: Rep. L. Gary ... - Apr 30Tax policy should reflect shared community values and encourage economic activity that benefits us all. The $203 Million tax-cut package unveiled ...
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Why you dread getting ill
By Dennis Lopez - Apr 27While Europe and other developed countries enjoy free and ready access to healthcare and no danger of losing their home should they be taken ill, ...
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Change requires awareness; understanding results in action
By Bill Packard - Apr 23OK, so now that I have everyone’s attention regarding town government, what’s next? Here’s an important thing to remember: Everyone does the best ...
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Littering on Harbor Park
Apr 22On the Fourth of July the town of Camden is crowded with people celebrating, holding barbecues, and watching fireworks. Though these celebrations ...
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Tannery agreement does not protect Camden
By Nancy Caudle-Johnson - Apr 18The Camden Select Board held a public hearing on April 7 at the Camden Opera House to take public comments on the first amended purchase and sale ...
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About Parkinson's disease
By Gordon Guist - Apr 09Editor’s note: April is National Parkinson’s Awareness month. This article is intended to heighten public awareness. “You have Parkinson’s ...
The starting line
By Cathy Lickteig Makofski - Apr 08‘What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.’ — T.S. Eliot. ...
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To be (or not to be) determined
By Nancy Caudle-Johnson - Apr 04After viewing the rather sketchy presentation by B' D' Turman'D Entertainment at the March 19 Camden Select Board meeting, I had many questions. ...
Washington snowmobilers partner with emergency network
By Charlotte Henderson - Apr 03On a very cold and windy morning a few weeks ago, an intrepid crew of emergency personnel from the Washington Fire Department, Union Ambulance ...
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Do you know a trauma survivor?
By Joyce Boaz - Apr 01Unfortunately, many people these days know someone who have been through a traumatic event. He or she could be your neighbor, a co-worker, family ...
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Embracing the changes
By Ruth Anne Hohfeld - Mar 31The school board of Regional School Unit 13 held its 24th meeting in February; it is an infant in terms of institutional years. The members of ...
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'Let us now praise famous men'
By Jeffrey Evangelos - Mar 27While I was at Orono in the early 1970s, I had the privilege of learning under Maine's great historian David Smith, author of more than 20 books, ...
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'You People' are still the boss
By Bill Packard - Mar 26You might remember that back before the election, I wrote a piece about what I saw the Tea Party to be after going to a couple of meetings here in ...
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Disheartening for Maine teachers
By John Fitzgerald - Mar 25I’d like to clarify some of the comments attributed to me in Shlomit Auciello’s article last week “Legislators hear from local educators." The ...
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Wrong way to balance budget priorities
By Andy O'Brien - Mar 18As I stared out at the faces in the school auditorium, I realized it had been almost 14 years since I had seen many of them. Back then, I was ...
Angels in the Camden area
By Barbara F. Dyer - Mar 14One of the nicest things that ever happened in Camden took place at the YMCA on Chestnut Street on Oct. 10, 1920. It was a meeting of compassiona...
Let’s change Waldoboro’s name to Broad Bay
By Steve Cartwright - Mar 13Years ago, Broad Bay was the alliterative and attractive name of the Midcoast town known today as Waldoboro. Let’s face it. “Waldoboro” is an ...
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The Enchanted
By Kendall Merriam - Mar 13For Paul and Morning Star A lovely winter’s day Warm for jackets and bright sun Waiting for your tales of the woods Where you go ...
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Time to accelerate, not pull back the throttle
By Dan Bolita - Mar 11Like most citizens, I generally prefer to remain both anonymous and complacent. The unfortunate consequence of this choice is that our elected ...
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The sled from the Smokestack
By Tom Crowley - Feb 26A true (somewhat) story about a sled and some Camden characters. Written for The Smokestack Grill on Feb. 15, 2011 after racing with the Smokestack...
Rockport Library seeks opinions
Feb 26The Rockport Public Library is turning 100 years old in 2014. As members of the Rockport Public Library Committee, we, along with the staff, have ...
Stop and turn the key
By Tom Hopps - Feb 26An idling car, truck or bus gets no miles per gallon and pollutes the air burning gas and money to no benefit. Idling more than 10 seconds uses ...
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The Camden Conference: The power of inclusion in foreign policy
By Jory Squibb - Feb 26My pulse began to quicken as the Camden Conference drew near. I knew China would be center stage, a country that particularly interests me. I have ...
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Sticking it to property taxpayers
By Jay Feyler - Feb 25Last week, Gov. LePage released his proposed budget for the next two years. As a municipal official, I was hoping that things would change from ...
Seabee, Thomaston tradesman turns 90
By Carolyn Zachary - Feb 22Harold A. Achorn, Sr., a World War II Seabee who ran a flooring business for some 40 years, celebrated his 90th birthday recently with family and ...
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Music inspires creativity
By Trish Jonason - Feb 22I am always looking for new music. New music to sing to, dance to, cook to and, most importantly, groove to with my two year-old. I'm a music ...
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Snow Blindness
By Kendall Merriam - Feb 12For Stephanie and Phyllis Staring into the sun The view is impossible Is it because I am twenty feet above talent Painters working the ...
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Holy ground
By Jory Squibb - Feb 04You know, first thing in the morning, the world can seem like a pretty unhappy and threatening place. With bleary eyes, you munch the toast and ...
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Maine gets a little wind-wiser
By Owen Casas - Feb 04"The future ain’t what it used to be." Yogi Berra said that. I doubt he knew that the future would also include meeting 20 percent of our nation's ...
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Many Flags ready to be the five-year high school/associate degree pilot for Maine
By Sheri Closter and Dan ... - Jan 27Dear Governor LePage: First of all, congratulations on becoming Maine’s next governor. These are challenging times for Maine. You have our best ...
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Violent exhortations have consequences
By Anita Brosius-Scott - Jan 22My heart is heavy for the victims of the tragedy in Arizona. These senseless murders and the attempted assassination of Gabrielle Giffords brings ...
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SOS
By Diane H. Schetky - Jan 22The world is tilting on an axis in need of major repairs. Glaciers and perma frost are shedding their dormant secrets. Ocean acidificatio...
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Remembering Martin Luther King
By Jay Davis - Jan 17[Editor's note: This column first appeared in VillageSoup Jan. 20, 2003.] Forty years ago in April, Dr. Martin Luther King was jailed in ...
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Credit and debit cards sting local revenue
By Steve Cartwright - Jan 16What if you could suddenly donate approximately $14,000 per year to the Good Tern co-op market in Rockland? Well, we can in fact do that, but it ...
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Writing a new chapter
By Larry Kinney - Jan 16Here we are again, the beginning of a new chapter in Maine history. As someone not particularly interested in politics, I am, however, encouraged...
Poinsettia regeneration in our back yard
By Doug Saball - Jan 11In the late 1980s, a study by NASA resulted in excellent news for homeowners and office workers everywhere. The study concluded that common ...
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The poets and the guv
By Kathleen Fox - Jan 07The following is a poem written in response to an editorial by Joshua Bodwell decrying Governor LePage's decision to not include poetry in the ...
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I ♥ Maine poetry
By Joshua Bodwell - Jan 04I must admit that I was quite surprised when governor-elect Paul LePage’s camp announced that no poetry would be read at his gubernatorial ...
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Reviving the West
By Gordon Brown - Dec 27In 2008, at a time of financial peril, the world united to restructure the global banking system. In 2009, as trade collapsed and unemployment ...
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Letters to the editor
Dec 26The older generationMy dear Santa,I am probably too old to be writing to you, but I am writing on behalf of many old and forgotten relatives, who ...
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Democracy defeated
By Dennis Lopez - Dec 21Obama’s capitulation to the Republicans (in order for the unemployed to get $18 billion, the rich get $780 billion) is a stunning example of just ...
Christmas as mythology
By The Rev. Kevin Pleas - Dec 21At the risk of giving it more attention than it has already gotten, and certainly more than it deserves, I can’t help responding to the billboard ...
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Our wet planet
By Joe Brown - Dec 20An astronaut peering down on our planet from space might wonder why we call it “Earth” instead of “Ocean,” since that large blue dominating watery ...
Where was this?
Dec 13In the great scheme of things, this photo is not all that old, except the fixtures within it are now practically obsolete. Do you know where this ...
Fog
By Joe Brown - Dec 12My wife Bobby and I were aboard our sloop Snow Goose about halfway between North Haven Island and Rockport, the latter being our home port for ...
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Dear Santa
By Ellie Busby - Dec 12Dear Santa:We are pretty worn out down here right now, so could you please bring back our jobs? A lot of us are older and have worked really hard ...
Water and Power: People from 'away'
By Eva Murray - Dec 12We’re guilty of a mighty double standard. Mainers take enormous pride in the literal place of their birth, and don’t hesitate to point out the ...
Gateway 1: Bad for Maine, bad for Rockland
By Ted Cowan - Dec 12Most people do not know it, but there is a scandal brewing over an organization being formed to draw the towns along Route 1 into a scheme to, in ...
Readers' Response
Dec 11Last week, the Herald Gazette (Dec. 1) published a photo of a village church, taken sometime around the turn of the 20th-Century. Hope citizens ...
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Warren, time to start over
By Bill Packard - Dec 09When something like what is going on right now in Warren happens, it’s just a terrible, terrible thing. There is a very real possibility and ...
Dispatches
Do you believe?
By Irene Maxcy - Dec 07Editor's Note: Irene Maxcy and her husband, Richard, of Warren, recently returned from a photographic tour to the northern tundra of Canada. The ...
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Taxpayers: Dialing 911 costs money
By Michael M. Monck - Dec 04First I would like to thank your newspaper for starting the education of the public of the behind the scenes struggles public safety departments ...
Furry friends
By Joseph Brown - Nov 29Mark Twain was once quoted as saying, “If a man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.” Albert Schweitzer ...
Readers' Response
Nov 27Terry Economy's column, Rail Kids, has evoked memories of former Rockland residents, including those of William Pease, who grew up in Rockland and ...
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Now is not the time to sell out our fishermen
By U.S. Senator Olympia ... - Nov 26On Nov. 18, during a meeting of the International Commission on Conservation of Atlantic Tunas in Paris, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administr...
Dispatches
Greetings from South Africa
By Jane Lafleur - Nov 20Three hours on the tarmac in Portland and it began to sink in that this was going to be a long trip. But soon I was off to JFK, then Johannesburg ...
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Gateway 1 a tool to preserve resources and promote healthy growth
By Don White - Nov 20In response to the editorial in last Wednesday's Herald Gazette titled "Uncertain times for towns", Gateway1 continues on course to form a ...
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Oil tank safety in the backyard
By David McCaskill - Nov 17You’ve heard it from us before, but ‘tis the season to hear it again. It’s time to pay attention to your lonely and faithful oil tank hidden away ...
Ode to Maine
By Joe Brown - Nov 13It was just about this time of year in 1990 when a new neighbor approached my wife and myself not long after we had moved to Rockport from ...
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Budget common sense
By Garrett Martin - Nov 13When a family faces economic hardship, not only do they sit at the kitchen table and figure out how to cut their spending, they also try to find ...
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Remembering our nation's veterans
By Senator Susan Collins - Nov 11“Veterans Day was established to commemorate that precise moment – the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month in 1918 – when the guns of the ...
Painting the world for Camden-Rockport Middle School
By Alice Podolsky - Nov 06Recently, I caught up with Edie Caldwell, a resident of Rockport, and asked her a few questions about the renovation of the Camden-Rockport Middle ...
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Controlling our corners
Nov 06Is a new four-way stop sign at Hope Center really the solution to a speed limit issue? On Nov. 4, the Maine Department of Transportation was at ...
Wind turbine noise: noise complaints predictable
By Stephen Ambrose and ... - Oct 30Applicants and regulators should have foreseen the negative noise response from neighbors living near wind turbine sites. By their not adequately ...
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The progressive viewpoint
By Dennis Lopez - Oct 30You don’t hear the political term “progressive” much, a descriptive fitting many more Americans than you’d guess, because our beliefs contradict ...
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Why do I want to be a Rockland City Councilor
By Frank Isganitis - Oct 30Many people have asked me this question over the last four weeks. Some have prefaced the question with the statement, “You must be crazy.” Nothing ...
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'Tea Party, I think, is you and me'
By Bill Packard - Oct 30The Tea Party appears to be getting more and more attention around the country and as we always have, Maine seems to be at the forefront. There’s ...
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Wrong feels just like right
By Shlomit Auciello - Oct 28"What does it feel like when you know you're wrong?"When this question was posed to the PopTech audience last week at the Camden Opera House, ...
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Larry Pritchett: Why I am running for Rockland City Council
By Larry Pritchett - Oct 26I am running for Rockland City Council because Rockland people want government that gives us value for our tax dollars, builds on the strengths of ...
The Maine economy should be No. 1 priority
By Dana Dow - Oct 25For those of you who don’t know me, I’m Dana Dow, owner of Dow Furniture in Waldoboro and former senator for District 20 of Lincoln County. My ...
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The economic significance of the Snow Bowl
By Dan Bookham - Oct 25Although it’s still October I have to admit to having a hankering for snow. Maybe it’s the appearance of ski equipment magazines in the stores ...
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Wesley Richardson: Why I am running for Maine Legislature
By Wesley Richardson - Oct 22As the State Representative for District 49 (Cushing, Friendship, Union and Warren) my name is Wes Richardson and I am running for reelection. I ...
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Carol Emery, Why I want to be Knox County Judge of Probate
By Carol Emery - Oct 20The Probate Judge is the only elected Judge in Maine, as set forth in the Maine Constitution. Despite the fact we are elected officials, we must ...
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Helen Shaw: Make Maine business-friendly, stop dependency
By Helen Shaw - Oct 19My name is Helen Shaw and I am running for the state house to represent the citizens of Camden and Rockport. I want to go to Augusta and pass ...
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Knox County Sheriff Candidate Donna Dennison: I ask for your vote
By Donna Dennison - Oct 19As I thought about writing this editorial, I considered briefly responding to the accusations that have come my way during the last month of the ...
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Vote Mike Phillips for Sheriff
By Mike Phillips - Oct 19When I started this journey 16 months ago with the Fourth of July Parade in Thomaston I had a small group of people who believed in me. As time ...
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Jeff Gallagher: Open personnel files and let voters decide
By Jeff Gallagher - Oct 19I want to take this opportunity to thank Patricia Colling Egan of Rockport for her recent Herald Gazette Letter to the Editor (“Sheriff's Office ...
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Walter Kumiega: Maine lobstermen need great representation
By Walter Kumiega - Oct 19If elected to House Seat 36 I will work hard to represent the interests of Maine's lobster industry. Fishing is the economic heart and cultural ...
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Jacqueline Spofford: Growing up in Maine
By Jacqueline Spofford - Oct 18While growing up I never realized how special it was to live on the coast of Maine. When I was 13, I had the opportunity to go to Greece. I ...
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What the Tea Party is
By Cynthia Rosen - Oct 17"Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others?" — ...
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Shelby Chadwick: Connected to the people of the Midcoast
By Shelby Chadwick - Oct 16People often ask why I have decided to run for public office. I can honestly say it is because I care deeply about our rural towns and how they ...
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Joan Welsh: Jobs in the Creative Economy for the Midcoast and Maine
By Joan Welsh - Oct 16As I have been going door to door talking with my neighbors and constituents the overarching theme is concern about jobs and the economy. The ...
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Chuck Kruger: Why I want to serve in the Maine Legislature
By Chuck Kruger - Oct 16VillageSoup and the Herald Gazette have been kind enough to make space available for candidates. I thought I would cover some of the basic ...
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Andrew O'Brien: The reality of bipartisanship
By Andrew O'Brien - Oct 16In 2008, when I was first running for the legislature, I attended a Belfast debate that stuck in my mind over the past two years. Two legislative ...
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Steven D. Powell: Why I am running for Maine State Legislature
By Steven D. Powell - Oct 15As the Republican candidate in District 48 for the House of Representatives, I've learned a lot about the political process. If you think the ...
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Harold G. Perry: Why I am running for Rockland City Council
By Harold G. Perry - Oct 15The reason I am running for Rockland City Council are: Provide public service with integrity, humility, family values; where freedom and ...
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Sarah Ruef-Lindquist: I pledge to serve faithfully, intelligently and fairly
Oct 15In any election, having a choice is fundamental to the validity and integrity of the process. This November, you have a choice that voters in Knox ...
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Why I am running for Maine House District 44
By Wendy Pelletier - Oct 15I am a conservative Republican candidate for Maine House District 44 serving Appleton, Hope, Searsmont, Liberty, Morrill, Linconville and Islesboro...
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Visualize Wal-Mart with a green roof garden
By John Chandler - Oct 09Word is circulating that a group of concerned Thomaston citizens is opposed to Wal-Mart, but I do not think such is the case. A couple of years ...
Remembering Margaret
By Joseph Brown - Oct 09With the midterm elections closing in on us like a January nor'easter, it seems appropriate that we remember one of the most dynamic figures in ...
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An open letter to Congress:
By Wes Keep - Oct 03Dear Members of Congress: Most of you, maybe all, will not like this note. Probably all will disagree in your individual political stammering, ...
Sheena
By Karen L. Cadbury - Sep 27Sheena and Glen are unemployed. They live in a small third-floor walk-up apartment on a slightly hidden side street, near factories and railroad ...
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Selling land to advance conservation
By Scott Dickerson - Sep 25During the past few months, Coastal Mountains Land Trust has sold two properties, and expects to soon sell a third. This is an unusual convergence ...
Lead poisoned Megunticook loon dies
By Kate Harris - Sep 23The Avian Haven Wild Bird Rehabilitation Center in Freedom, who's annual caseload runs typically about 1000 birds from 100 or more species, was ...
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Thomaston big-box a bigger discussion
By Steve Ryan - Sep 23As public debate ensues about the possibility of a Wal-Mart coming to Route 1 in Thomaston, there is a chance that the long view may be lost in ...
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Rectifying egregious inequalities for Maine’s paper producers
By U.S. Senator Olympia ... - Sep 21On Sept. 16, I had the opportunity join with mill workers from Maine at a U.S. International Trade Commission hearing in Washington, where I ...
Mammoth pumpkin grows on Pearl Street
By Lori Van Dusen - Sep 21We have a friend named Phil Fowler, who lives in Camden during the summer and is an executive of a big company in North Carolina. In his spare ...
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Wind turbine noise: an independent assessment of sound quality
By Stephen Ambrose and ... - Sep 19Stephen Ambrose and Robert Rand are members of the Institute of Noise Control Engineering. In 2009, they became concerned about the negative ...
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The new economy
By Philip C. Groce - Sep 19After the Herald Gazette published my article (7/14/10) on the new economy, I have been asked questions concerning the political environment in ...
Swan Song
By Ron Horvath - Sep 17Things change. That’s a constant, probably the only one. People change. That should go without saying but it needs stating anyway as humans are ...
Wind turbine noise, an independent assessment
By Stephen Ambrose and ... - Sep 10Stephen Ambrose and Robert Rand are members of the Institute of Noise Control Engineering. In 2009, they became concerned about the negative ...
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Perry mails a letter
By David Hill - Aug 27I have a friend whose name and location I cannot mention. He lives in a group home situation, somewhere on planet Earth. I'll call him Perry. I ...
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A mountain of opportunity
By John M. Christie - Aug 20I've been involved with skiing and the ski industry for most of my 73 years. In fact, it has been 68 years since my mother put me on skis at the ...
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Why can't I breathe in our back yard?
By Doug Saball - Aug 20You might remember the 1963 hit song by Nat King Cole: “Roll out those lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer, those days of soda and pretzels and ...
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Ragged Mountain wind power development
Aug 19It has come to the attention of several property owners and concerned citizens in the Camden/Rockport/ Hope and other neighborhoods on or near the ...
How soon we forget
By Fred Hirsch - Aug 13Four years ago, two individuals, one a child, were killed when a train approached them and others while they were fishing on a railroad bridge in ...
The family reunion
By Jory Squibb - Aug 06Six siblings, ages 55 to 70, surround our 95-year-old mother on a porch overlooking Lake Michigan. Late July! This must be the Squibb clan's ...
Dragon Cement remains an economic mainstay
By Dragon Cement ... - Aug 05It is important to recognize the economic, environmental and community contributions made by local businesses such as Dragon Cement, located on ...
Sitting among friends
By Jory Squibb - Jul 22If you examined the above picture as a stranger, you would simply see a circle of 20-somethings chatting together. But the fellow in the tie-dyed ...
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The new economy
By Philip C. Groce - Jul 17We have been locked into what I will call the Old Economy (OE) for as long as the United States has existed. The OE went well, but recently it has ...
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Rockland more than entertainment side show
By David Wylie - Jul 12We need to consider the potential impact of mega-ships in Rockland. We need to get behind the promotional rhetoric of the cruise industry and the ...
Lincolnville's welcome mat
By Diane O'Brien - Jul 09The house at Youngtown Corner has traditionally been one of the grandest in Lincolnville. For generations of Youngs, including many of their ...
The business of berries
By Jed Beach - Jul 01About this series: This is the second of a series of articles highlighting agriculture in the Midcoast. Each month, the article will highlight one ...
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Jobless recoveries and manic policies
By Raghuram Rajan - Jun 27Monetary and fiscal policies in the United States, both in this recession and the recession of 2001, have been among the most accommodating in the ...
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A few last words on tax reform (for now)
By Rep. John Piotti - Jun 19With a yes vote prevailing on Question 1 in the June 8 election, the tax overhaul passed by the Legislature a year ago (LD 1495) is now repealed. ...
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Words as weapons
By Marilyn Moss Rockefeller - Jun 11It was 8:30 a.m. on May 20. I was sitting on the first row of bleachers in the Bucksport High School gymnasium, filled with students at tables. A ...
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A letter from Geoffrey Parker
By Geoffrey Parker - Jun 09To Rockport citizens: First of all, let me congratulate Gretchen Richards in winning this election. Her desire to serve the community is a ...
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Profiling — going to Grandma's goes global
By Pat Crosby - Jun 06MADRID, Spain -- Oct. 30, 2000: ETA Basque terrorist group sets off bomb killing four people. MADRID, Spain -- March 11, 2000: Terrorist train ...
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Rockport voters: save the ball field, save the community
By Robert Nichols - Jun 04On their June 8 printed ballot, Rockport voters will see a question (Article 9) that reads: "Shall the Town (i) adopt the Development Program ...
Memorial Day and lilacs
By Lynda Clancy - May 31Maine's rugged and lovely lilac is in full bloom, a week or two early this year, but still in sync with Memorial Day. The evening air is scented ...
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Get informed for SAD 40's regional budget meeting
By Bob Butler - May 30I'm writing this to express my views concerning the Maine School Administrative District 40 fiscal year 2011 budget. I usually attend school ...
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Sheriff's office needs to focus on community
By Tim Hoppe - May 28There’s an outdated approach to running a sheriff’s office, and a leading-edge approach that reflects modern best-practice policing.The outdated ...
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I ask for your vote on June 8
By Donna Dennison - May 28It is sometimes hard to believe that almost four years have passed since I was elected to my first term as Knox County sheriff. I appreciate the ...
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Vote no on Question 1 for Maine's future
By John Piotti - May 28Note: This is a continuation of a column published last week. Question 1 on the June 8 ballot reads: "Do you want to reject the new law that ...
Come Boating! and Station Maine report from Cornwall
By Muriel Curtis - May 22It was Malcolm's fault. He's the cox of Come Boating!'s rowing program. Malcolm is deeply steeped in the tradition of the Cornish Pilot gigs used ...
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Maine leads the nation offshore
By Ron Huber - May 21Maine will lead the nation in the race to build truly offshore floating wind power stations. The May 11 signing ceremony of LD 1810 "An Act To ...
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Vote no on Question 1 for Maine's future
By John Piotti - May 21On June 8, you will have a chance to help both yourself and Maine by voting no on Question 1. In 2009, after the Legislature passed the first ...
Come to the table; talk, listen, then act
By Patrick Wright - May 20This column is the second in a series of three articles submitted by the town of Waldoboro planning and development director regarding the ...
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Getting the growing going earlier
By Jed Beach - May 15This is the first of a series of articles highlighting agriculture in the Midcoast. Each month, the article will highlight one of the products ...
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Weatherization loans available for homeowners
By Anita Brosius-Scott - May 14On April 1 Maine passed PACE-enabling legislation, the first step toward making it possible for all property owners to be able to afford the high ...
Why Waldoboro needs a vision
By Patrick Wright - May 13This column is the first in a series of three articles submitted by the town of Waldoboro planning and development director regarding the ReThink, ...
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As I see it
By Maynard Tolman - Apr 30In Rockport, approximately three years ago, Bob Duke was re-elected to the Select Board. He served previously on the Charter Commission when the ...
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Rockport charter
By Bill Packard - Apr 29Of course everyone has their pantyhose knotted up about this Rockport Select Board member/charter amendment deal. It's the talk of people all ...
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Rising red tide concerns
By Sen. Susan Collins - Apr 29The first red tide closure of the season hit the Maine Coast in late March, halting the harvest of some species of shellfish from Harpswell to the ...
The demise of a credit card offer collection
By Tom Sadowski - Apr 28Hey! My credit card offers are missing! Ten years of collecting credit card offers down the drain, apparently swiped from my office. I had them ...
Beheaded. A metaphor?
By Maggie Trout - Apr 20When Rockland received its most recent destination designation from the National Trust for Historic Preservation, accompanying the news announcemen...
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The Preface
By Kendall Merriam - Apr 17For Shubhra Chand We have only had a glimpse of your work it lies here in the sun of the bay still enclosed in linen I saw black and ...
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Devastating examples
By Rebecca Anderson - Apr 10For any parent or taxpayer affected by the Rockland and Thomaston area proposal for immediate school consolidation: If we are to be concerned ...
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Programs for exceptional children
By Judy Gove - Mar 26The Five Town Community School District and Maine School Administrative District 28 provide special education and related services to more than ...
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Level the playing field
By Michael Weatherwax - Mar 12One of the most basic tenets of sound educational funding is that a state should work to level the playing field of educational opportunity for ...
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Listen to the citizens
By Geoffrey Parker - Mar 11While it is very responsible and laudable for Rockport's Select Board to instruct the town manager to present a budget that shows a zero increase, ...
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Important economic development legislation advances in Legislature
By Christopher Rector - Mar 06The Legislature's Business, Research and Economic Development Committee, of which I am a member, recently approved important economic development ...
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Mental health cuts devastating to community, economic health
By Roy Hitchings and ... - Mar 05We write today to share concerns about proposed mental health cuts now being considered by the Legislature and the devastating impact we believe ...
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Coming up empty
By Aimee Dolloff - Feb 26In the Gulf of Maine waters, the contrast couldn't be more striking. Crustaceans are plentiful and the lobstering industry is thriving, while ...
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Many Flags: good for the entire region
By Many Flags Application... - Feb 19As many of you know, the Many Flags, One Campus model has been researched, discussed and refined over the past seven years. We, the Many Flags ...
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Camden tax increment financing districts
By Martin Cates and ... - Feb 19The creation of two tax increment financing districts is the question being put before the voters of Camden at a special town meeting on Tuesday, ...
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A curious sort of person
By Bill Packard - Feb 13I saw Lawrence Nash the other day. Remember Lawrence? He was a county commissioner for quite a while until Roger Moody beat him out. Kind of funny ...
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Reflections on Hope
By Florance Merrifield - Feb 06In 1978, I was asked if I would be the deputy town clerk and tax collector for the town of Hope. I took the position and worked from my home. I ...
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Fields of vision
By Ronald M. Horvath - Feb 05“Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world,” wrote William Sloane Coffin, scholar, religious leader and ...
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Maintaining modest estate tax promotes shared prosperity
By Dan Coyne - Feb 05Amid all the end of year legislative frenzy to wrap up by Christmas, an important piece of legislation was left behind -- the federal estate tax. ...
From Thomaston to Camden: the Tolman Bus
By Paul Putnam - Feb 01My son-in-law's father, Tom Fletcher, was born in 1900 and told me one time about seeing the first automobile to come to his town of Ravenscrag, ...
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When only a letter will do
By Jeff Howland - Jan 30"The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone." - Harriet Beecher Stowe I recently wrote a letter to a ...
Woodworker uses pallets as his palette
By Bob Holtzman - Jan 30Consider the lowly used shipping pallet. Where others see junk or firewood, woodworker Hugh Lane sees a handsome, functional piece of furniture. ...
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Toussaint L'ouverture for Haiti
By Kendall Merriam - Jan 30Struck and struck again no God knows why small comfortable people living in an impecunious style taking so little of earth's provender li...
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Looking for name unknown
By Sidney Caler - Jan 29The following arrived via the U.S. Postal Service Jan. 25, addressed to The Herald Gazette. Sydney Caler, 93, of Skowhegan would like to make ...
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President Obama's remarks on the State of the Union
By President Barack Obama - Jan 28Madame Speaker, Vice President Biden, Members of Congress, distinguished guests, and fellow Americans: Our Constitution declares that from time ...
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Pingree applauds Obama's call for railroad investments
By Rep. Chellie Pingree - Jan 28I was glad to hear the President focus on creating jobs and improving the economy, including a commitment to making it easier for small businesses ...
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Michaud calls for bipartisan effort to help small businesses after president's speech
By Rep. Mike Michaud - Jan 28Many Mainers are as frustrated as I am with Washington right now. The environment is extremely partisan at precisely the time we can least afford ...
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Collins responds to Obama with call for green energy jobs
By Sen. Susan Collins - Jan 28Tonight, the president delivered a strong message to the American people and discussed many of the challenges that are important to our country. I ...
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Snowe praises Obama's spending freeze proposal, call for jobs as main focus
By Sen. Olympia Snowe - Jan 28Tonight's State of the Union address comes at a consequential time in our nation's history, with jobs and the economy at the forefront of concerns ...
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Children in the courtroom
By Este Underdown - Jan 27The years for older children and young adolescents between the ages of 6 and 15 have been called the most important time in their development. Why ...
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Presenting a unified regional front
By Dan Bookham - Jan 25One of my favorite things about chamber work is watching the wisdom of crowds and the power of groups at work. A modest dues investment by one ...
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Help your neighbors
By Candice Richards - Jan 25It's post-holidays and I'm sure everyone is tired of hearing "would you like to donate ..." or "we are collecting ..." I can't say I blame anyone ...
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Fire grants for safer operations
By Chellie Pingree - Jan 25When nine firefighters were recently laid off in Portland due to budget cuts, members of the local union dug into their own pockets to support ...
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Tipping points 1: passing out in my plate
By Louisa Enright - Jan 24In May 2006, I passed out at our neighbors' dinner table from an allergic reaction to something I had eaten. The attack strengthened so quickly ...
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Valuable community service
By James M. Thomas - Jan 23Having taught a class for the new guards at Maine State Prison for more than 10 years, I make a point of telling them that their work at the ...
The nature of relationships: Why relationships exist
By Kathrin Seitz and ... - Jan 22Writer, producer and coach Kathrin Seitz and Marc Felix, a Camden psychotherapist and student of shamanism, are exploring this winter the phenomeno...
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Herald Gazette letters
Jan 16School budget cuts In my letter to the editor last week for Citizens for Value in Education, I suggested that the burden placed upon the ...
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Cold! You call this cold?
By Paul Putnam - Jan 10Years ago there was a popular radio program called “Can You Top This?” Three or four comedians would sit around telling stories, and I guess there ...
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Going to Mark McClellan's memorial service
By Jory Squibb - Jan 08The local ice-boating community -- about six of us -- had been second-guessing ourselves: We had measured the ice thickness on Chickawaukie on ...
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A balanced approach will balance the budget
By Dan Coyne - Jan 08With just about every state in the nation facing record-breaking budget shortfalls, no one really knows what the "new normal" will be in state ...
The ice is never safe
By Richard Saltonstall - Jan 08The ice is never safe. There is always thin ice somewhere. I have spent most of my adult life on the ice every winter, every day I could get on ...
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Cries of liberty
By Ronald M. Horvath - Jan 08One of the joys of reading Shakespeare is that he always has something to tell us about the human condition. Strangely enough for a man who lived ...
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Is sadness a disease?
By Allan V. Horwitz and ... - Jan 02Sadness is one of the small number of human emotions that have been recognized in all societies and in all time periods. Some of the earliest ...
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The work of the collective soul
By Ronald M. Horvath - Jan 01On the first day of winter all the cars arrived in the parking lot at work led by the glare from their headlights. Engines, idling for warmth, ...
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Working with lime
By Paul Putnam - Dec 27My dad had just opened his new candy shop, Putnam's Candy Kitchen, on the Rockport bypass in March 1955 when I came home from four years in the ...
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Everything is a crisis
By Bill Packard - Dec 26My father never got excited about anything bad. One time that I can remember he got upset with the farm team coach because the coach didn't let me ...
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Shipwrecks on the dark sea of humanity
By Kendall Merriam - Dec 26For Jonathan Frost The line of paintings in your gallery flash with life and danger police in helmets people in unbarred clothing rea...
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Clean a little greener
By Andrea Lani - Dec 20As interest in reducing the number of chemicals in our homes has grown, so has the availability of environmentally friendly cleaning products. Now ...
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Where have all the flowers gone?
By A. Charles Burgess - Dec 19With the recent passing of Mary Travers, I found myself digging into my now somewhat dusty memory and humming and later singing the words to this ...
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Season of light, and dark
By Ronald M. Horvath - Dec 18On the Friday after Thanksgiving we drove home from Quincy in the rain. We had spent the day with family, including our daughter, son-in-law and ...
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It is up to you, Rockport residents
By Cheryl Beveridge - Dec 16Rockport residents, you have an important choice to make. It is a decision that will affect your surroundings for years to come. I am speaking ...
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The pros and cons of single-stream recycling
By Victor Horton - Dec 14Over the last few years there have been many articles in the local and national media touting single stream, or no-sort, recycling. Under the ...
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The cycles of economic discontent
By Harold James - Dec 12The 19th Century was mesmerized by the cyclical behavior of business. The French economist Clement Juglar became famous for establishing that ...
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Random thoughts
By Paul Putnam - Dec 12I was sitting in my leather easy chair in the living room this morning, looking out the big picture window, just watching the clouds roll by in a ...
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History of the start of the Hope Volunteer Fire Department
By William P. Pearse Sr. - Dec 08The Hope Volunteer Fire Department was started in July 1951 after Everett Hobb's barn burned. My father, Ralph, my brother John and I were ...
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A holiday list for commercial fishermen
By Lt. Jason Smilie - Dec 06When's the last time your fisherman tried on a survival suit? Do you have any survival suits on board for the children when they pay a visit? A ...
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Fear itself …
By Ronald M. Horvath - Dec 04The picture is at once dark and menacing. Rain is falling outside. Colors and faces are half-hidden in shadow. The camera flashes from one worried ...
Where does this road go?
By Sandy Delano - Dec 04Where does this road go? This is the lead in question to the classic Maine joke that typically ends with, "it don't go no where. It stays right ...
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To Scott Overlock: May you be well
By Jory Squibb - Dec 02One of the blessings of parenting is the flow of friends our children bring into our homes. Scott Overlock -- a close friend of our older daughter ...
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Protecting low income households in climate change legislation
By Nicole Witherbee - Nov 26Maine’s economy relies heavily on our natural resources, making us particularly vulnerable to climate change. While geologists and computer ...
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What’s in a name?
By Tina Tucker - Nov 25What were the words of Shakespeare ... "a rose by any other name would smell as sweet?” In the context of "Romeo and Juliet," maybe. In the ...
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Reflections on extremism
By Ronald M. Horvath - Nov 20The news was all too familiar. Another mad gunman, another massacre in a public place -- this time of our best and brightest in uniform -- more ...





























