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Horst Wessel

By David Grima - Aug 17
“The real problem is the idiots who work for me,” Lord Prez Trumpleton told me the other day while washing his orange wig after the end of the ...
Heroin, Fentanyl, OxyContin - Where do we go from here?

By Jan Dolcater - Aug 17
The nation overall and our state of Maine are experiencing a scourge that is destroying individuals and families at an alarming rate. Unfortunately...
Camden Herald letters to the editor, Aug. 17

Aug 17
Applause for Eagle Scout project I want to applaud Zachary Dorr and his Little Free Pantry Project... I first became acquainted with this type of ...
Courier-Gazette letters to the Editor, Aug. 17

Aug 17
Editorial missed PETA's point Your editorial of Thursday, August 3, titled “What PETA Wants,” is sarcastically dismissive of the organization’s ...
Thomaston celebrates new police chief

By The Courier-Gazette ... - Aug 16
Congratulations to Tim Hoppe, who has been named the new police chief for the town of Thomaston. Some of us at the Courier have worked with Hoppe ...
Standing up for the First Amendment

By The Camden Herald ... - Aug 16
Two local women, including one from Camden, are standing up to Gov. Paul LePage after they were blocked from making comments on his Facebook ...
Prevention recap

By Paula Jackson Jones - Aug 12
As summer stretches into August, our battle with ticks remain strong and so must our attention to prevention practices. It may seem like repetitive...
Identifying and rooting out invasive plants

By Lynette L. Walther - Aug 11
There’s nothing like an official list to get a procrastinator like me into gear. After years of indecision, I finally took out the big old ...
Slowing down

By Marina Schauffler - Aug 11
“I have struggled all my life with a constitutional impatience with anything that threatens to waste what’s left of my minutes here on earth. I ...
Speaking of old rascals

By David Grima - Aug 11
As I listened to it all from the concrete towers at the foot of Mechanic Street, where I am forced to live, the band playing the Saturday night ...
The curious case of Mr. Imran Awan and friends

By Paul Ackerman - Aug 10
Once upon a time, the Democratic Party had a chairwoman named Debbie Wasserman-Schultz. A congresswoman from Florida, Wasserman-Schultz was ...
Letters to the Editor, Aug. 10

Aug 10
Time to talk about spending priorities An important fact has been largely overlooked in the heated debate over Republican efforts to repeal and ...
August is National Immunization Awareness Month

By The Courier-Gazette ... - Aug 10
While we still have a few precious weeks of summer left to enjoy, it is also a good time to start thinking and planning for the coming school year ...
Angela Duckworth and true grit

By Reade Brower - Aug 10
“I am slow to learn and slow to forget that which I have learned.” --- Abraham Lincoln, 16th president of the United States of America (1809-1865)...
Help! I've been bitten by a tick — now what?

Aug 05
This is the number one question that I get on a regular basis, via phone call, email and in person. People who have had a tick encounter struggle ...
Low-maintenance pea setup ideal for small properties

By Tom Seymour - Aug 04
I admit to being a fool for garden peas. Peas, fresh-picked and fresh-shelled, stand as one of my favorite foods. But peas take a lot of room in ...
Sharing is caring

By Kris Ferrazza - Aug 04
A friend and I had just settled into our beach chairs and put our toes in the sand when it happened. Out of habit, I searched for our kids and saw ...
Queen of denial

By Sarah E. Reynolds - Aug 04
Getting older is definitely better than the alternative, but it can certainly be a pain — literally. I have an increasing number of creaky parts ...

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Re: Under repair from earlier fire, house burns in South ...

By Gerald A Weinand - Aug 17
Lesson to be learned from this unfortunate series of events:Insure your house for what it will cost to rebuild it, not its market value. Home ...
Re: Megunticook Race Festival with triathlon, Horch Roofing 5K ...

By Laurie Smith - Aug 17
Your sponsors list mentions a 70.3 distance, but I don't see any mention of this distance anywhere else. A 70.3 is a Half Ironman.
Re: Police capture prisoner in Rockland who fled Warren ...

By Jim Gamage - Aug 17
I would like to see that article as well.
Re: Police capture prisoner in Rockland who fled Warren ...

By Richard McKusic, Sr. - Aug 17
Good capture. The Bolduc Center is making a real difference in the recidivism rate. Looking forward to seeing an article on that in the future.
Re: Under repair from earlier fire, house burns in South ...

By Lorrie Callaway - Aug 17
I think what is more important than what the insurance coverage was or wasn't, is that everyone is okay!

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