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  • Letter: Angels in Falmouth, and above

    The horrific events in Newtown, Conn., have haunted people everywhere. On Tuesday evening, Dec. 18, at the annual Winter Concert of the Falmouth Elementary School, I felt the spirits of 20 children, ages 6 and 7, from the Sandy Hook Elementary School. Parents with siblings and grandparents...

    • Opinion •
    Monday, December 24, 2012

  • Global Matters: New Mayan prophecies discovered! (Don't say we didn't warn you)

    A team of archaeologists has revealed the discovery of an artifact of unquestioned historical significance: a confidential memo, apparently from a trusted royal soothsayer and prognosticator to one of the last kings of the Mayan empire. The memo refers to the Mayan calendar’s now dis...

    Perry B. Newman • Opinion •
    Monday, December 24, 2012

  • The Universal Notebook: The (almost) silent treatment

    After a brief flirtation with Facebook, I decided last week that the social media site was not useful to me. I deactivated my Facebook page. It was just more aggravation than it was worth, it was wasting my time, and, frankly, I didn’t care for some of the people who popped up on &ld...

    Edgar Allen Beem • Opinion •
    Monday, December 24, 2012

  • Forecaster Forum: For the love of guns: A mother's, and legislator's, pledge

    I was supposed to participate in, or at least listen to, a conference call with fellow Maine state representatives and the speaker of the House Monday night at 8. Instead, I was in bed, asleep, escaping from the cold, dark night, unable to cope any more that day with the sadness that has envelope...

    Rep. Janice Cooper • Opinion •
    Tuesday, December 18, 2012 at 10:50 am

  • Editor's Notebook: '... Don't worry, it'll change'

    "If you're in a bad situation," someone once said, "don't worry, it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry, it'll change." That sense of constant change sums up the past year at The Forecaster, where we've welcomed several new staffers – William Hall, Will Graff, Maren...

    Mo Mehlsak • Opinion •
    Monday, December 17, 2012 at 12:10 pm

  • The Universal Notebook: Have yourself a cool Christmas

    The Christmas gifts of my childhood in the 1950s are lost memories, but I vividly recall the Christmas gifts of my adolescence in the early 1960s because they were invariably the things every teen and pre-teen needed to be cool. Just how coolness managed to be communicated to the youth of ...

    Edgar Allen Beem • Opinion •
    Monday, December 17, 2012 at 10:10 am

  • Superintendent's Notebook: Portland High School students make a difference

    Ten students from Portland High School’s Key Club spent a recent afternoon at the Good Shepherd Food Bank. They filled boxes with granola, soup, soy milk and other items to stock the high school’s new food pantry. The first of its kind in Maine, the pantry serves students who o...

    Emmanuel Caulk • Opinion •
    Monday, December 17, 2012 at 10:00 am

  • Letter: Newtown another reflection of who we are

    Years ago there was a picture in a magazine that showed a piece of moving art. The medium was a large truck that had sheets of polished metal on its sides that acted as mirrors, so that as it drove down city streets, people could see themselves in the reflection. The art was not the truck, but th...

    • Opinion •
    Monday, December 17, 2012 at 9:20 am
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