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  Collins’ statement on funding package being signed into law

  By Sen. Susan Collins - Dec 31
  U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, a senior member of the Appropriations Committee, released this statement following President Trump's signing the ...
  

• Charting a new path forward

  By Sen. Dave Miramant - Dec 17
  On Wednesday, Dec. 2, when I pulled into the Augusta Civic Center for our swearing-in ceremony, I was heartened to see the signs and hear the ...
  
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  Thoughts on Hope’s Kerfuffle

  By W.W. Matteson - Dec 17
  A recent timeline in these pages reflects a year's worth of turbulence in the Hope Town Office. With a pandemic on and no shortage of dysfunction ...
  

• As COVID-19 surges, we must renew vigilance

  By Dr. Mark Fourre - Nov 12
  As we enter the eighth month of this pandemic, fears that cool weather would accompany a surge in the pandemic have proven well-placed. Cases of ...
  

• The business of canvassing for Trump

  By George Miaoulis Jr. - Nov 05
  I never expected to be canvassing this fall, let alone for Donald Trump. In my search for a job at the end of my unemployment, however, I came ...
  
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  Page congratulates Miramant, thanks supporters

  Nov 04
  To the Editor: I write this letter to congratulate Senator David Miramant on his reelection on Tuesday. It has been my sincere honor to run for ...
  
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  Running my race — solo

  By Rep. Vicki Doudera - Oct 01
  I was a sprinter in high school and college, even setting some records back when track distances were administrated in yards. I remember one of my ...
  

• Mourning a teen’s death; calling for gun safety measures

  By Rep. Vicki Doudera - Aug 27
  On Aug. 17, a 16-old-year boy accidentally shot and killed himself with a handgun at his home in New Sharon. The boy had been video-chatting with ...
  

• Response to the Rockport Select Board letter

  By Kathie Grealish - Aug 06
  [Ed. note: the following letter is a response to a letter from the Rockport Select Board, published in the Camden Herald, Aug. 6.] This Select ...
  
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  Trapped in Tropical Paradise: Part Six

  By Eleanor Motley Richardson - Jul 15
  I dreamed about my mother last night. Although I am old, I am still lucky enough to have her, a bulwark against mortality. Now 100, she lives in ...
  

• On the Water

  New Yorker enters rocky waters with the Coast Guard

  By Kay Neufeld - Dec 17
  It was an unusually-mild-tempered Monday morning when I followed through on a special invitation: a day on Rockland Harbor with the U.S. Coast ...
  
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  Opposing the Short Term Rental Ordinance

  By Rockport residents - Dec 17
  During the uncertainty of a challenging pandemic, members of the Rockport Select Board have launched an unjustified attack on residents' property ...
  

• Staying in Hope for the holidays

  By Will Matteson - Dec 03
  On Friday night, the day after Thanksgiving, as I drove into Camden to pick up a pizza at Megunticook Market, I saw a strange bright object in the ...
  

• Fitting in with Mainers as someone ‘from away’

  By Kay Neufeld - Nov 05
  If it wasn't apparent in my other stories, I am from away. I pretty much spent my whole life in New York. Inside the city and outside the Bronx. I ...
  
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  Valli thanks supporters, community

  Nov 05
  To the Community of Rockland and Owls Head: How do I ever thank a community for placing their trust in me? For all the people who voted for me, I ...
  

• Helping women overcome barriers to retirement security

  By Susan M. Collins - Oct 29
  As a senator representing the oldest state in the nation by median age, one of my highest priorities is to improve retirement security for older ...
  
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  Expanding primary care means healthier communities

  By Dr. Mark Fourre - Oct 01
  Years ago a Dartmouth College researcher named Jack Wennberg, using claims records from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Maine, discovered a difference ...
  

• Ask what your school can do for you - and what you can do for ...

  By Cheryl A. Liechty - Aug 12
  Today, there are few challenges greater than finding ways to safely offer children the clear educational, psychosocial, developmental and economic ...
  
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  Why don't they prosecute?

  By Patrisha McLean - Aug 06
  Thursday July 30, 2020: Knox County Closed Cases Arthur M. Andrews, 34, Camden, domestic violence assault, dismissed. Joey Hopkins, 43, domestic ...
  

• Five simple steps of tick prevention

  By Paula Jackson Jones - May 15
  As temperatures warm up and ticks become more active, how do we protect ourselves and our loved ones and reduce our fear of spending time outdoors?...