Stranger Than Fiction
Daniel Dunkle is editor of The Courier-Gazette and has written his column, "Stranger Than Fiction" for local newspapers for a number of years. He lives in Rockland with his wife, Christine, his son, Wesley, and his daughter, Samantha.
Email him at ddunkle@villagesoup.com and follow him on twitter @DanDunkle. Snail mail letters to 91 Camden St., Suite 403, Rockland, ME 04841.
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Driver's ed, the musical
By Daniel Dunkle - May 19Christine does not yell. She sings. As Wesley, age 16, with his learner's permit, bombs the Rockland rotary for the first time, she starts in from ...
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Town meeting season: Something we can depend on
By Daniel Dunkle - Mar 10March, like November, always looms large on my calendar. I look forward to it and dread it every year. March is town meeting season. I often think ...
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Jurik, Zdenek Jurik
By Daniel Dunkle - Feb 16You may have met Zdenek Jurik. He lived in Camden for years, working as an engineer, tinkering in his spare time building guitars and taking care ...
Bonanza: gone, but not forgotten
By Daniel Dunkle - Jan 26I ran into Pete Lammert the other day over by the rubble pile at the former Bonanza Restaurant site. Pete was standing there holding one of the ...
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Yes, Cheryl, your vote still counts
By Daniel Dunkle - Jan 12We recently received the following letter from Randall S. Hocking of Rockland: "I am writing to you in hopes you can answer a touchy question in ...
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Revolt or just revolting?
By Daniel Dunkle - Nov 10I had two strange, mystical feelings Tuesday night as I realized that beyond all possible imagination, Donald Trump was being elected president. Fi...
Days of cider and corn stalks
By Daniel Dunkle - Sep 30Saturday was too nice to stay indoors all day, even for me. It was sunny and dry, with just enough chill in the air for me to pull on a sweatshirt....
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Hitting the sky's limit
By Daniel Dunkle - Sep 09My 15-year-old son, Wesley, could not wait for the new video game, "No Man's Sky." This started months in advance. He had saved up his money, and ...
Chasing the pig
By Daniel Dunkle - Aug 25When I was a cub reporter, my first beat was the SAD 40 school district towns including, of course, Union, so early on I ended up covering the ...
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Satisfying that hunger at the lobster festival
By Daniel Dunkle - Aug 11In almost every job I've ever had, there was something to take pride in or some little satisfying moment. I used to pride myself on my ability to ...
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Mother's Day dilemma
By Daniel Dunkle - May 14How do you appreciate a mother? When I was a kid, I would wake up on Mother's Day and ride my bike up to the little shopping center next to ...
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Unstable
By Daniel Dunkle - Feb 24In one of the first little snowstorms, where we didn't get enough to even bother, I decided to start the snowblower and make sure it was working. ...
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Mall of the future
By Daniel Dunkle - Feb 02There was something a little different this past Christmas season. I noticed that almost every present under the tree came in the mail in an ...
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Your vote still counts
By Daniel Dunkle - Jan 19Last week I wrote about the Electoral College in response to a letter from Randall S. Hocking, who wanted us to convince his wife, Cheryl, that ...
Primary target
By Daniel Dunkle - Jan 05I grew up in a paradoxical time in U.S. history, the 1970s and 1980s. Ostensibly, throughout most of my childhood, we were at peace. I grew up in ...
Vermin
By Daniel Dunkle - Oct 06Samantha "needed" a pet. She's a 10-year-old girl and this is pretty standard. A lot of ideas were floated, often on the spur of the moment, such ...
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Better rude than boring in politics
By Daniel Dunkle - Sep 15One day recently we were talking in the newsroom about the antics of Gov. Paul LePage. How could he leave that message on a state rep's phone and ...
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Keep the faith in religious freedom
By Daniel Dunkle - Sep 02Never talk about politics and religion. Of course in the newspaper business, we consistently disobey this rule. I had the interesting experience ...
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A salute to Walter
By Daniel Dunkle - Aug 18As we were going over the final proofs for the Aug. 4 issue, I noticed an obituary that stopped me for a few minutes. Walter Rich, 92, of Union, ...
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Lost on a mountain in New Hampshire
By Daniel Dunkle - Aug 04Generally, I believe it is pointless to talk about what should have been done. All that matters is what can be done to move forward. Unless the ...
