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  • Letter: Elect Sanchez to SAD 51 board

    I am writing to encourage School Administrative District 51 residents to vote for Gigi Sanchez for School Board in the upcoming elections. I know Gigi through youth athletics, specifically girls lacrosse. She is a “roll-your-sleeves-up” person who is generous with her time and talents...

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    Monday, May 20, 2013 at 11:20 am

  • The Universal Notebook: Pictures of childhood

    One of the prize artifacts of childhood in our family is a photograph of my mother, age 4, standing on the wheel of Charles Lindbergh’s Spirit of St. Louis as it sat on the sands of Old Orchard Beach in July of 1927. Two months before, Lindbergh had made history by making the first n...

    Edgar Allen Beem • Opinion •
    Monday, May 20, 2013 at 11:00 am
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  • Letter: Paid sick days help everyone

    I am a small business owner and I am writing to support LD 1665, the paid sick days bill. I run a child-care business out of my home and have one employee. I charge by the hour, specifically to encourage parents to keep their sick children home. All the other child-care homes and centers I know ...

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    Tuesday, February 16, 2010 at 8:10 am

  • The Universal Notebook: A nose for news

    Whenever the mean-spiritedness that stinks up American public life these days gets to be too much for me, I go outside for a breath of fresh air. Paying more attention to nature than to culture is a wonderful antidote to anger and despair. Last week during the full moon, I stepped out onto... 1

    Edgar Allen Beem • Opinion •
    Monday, February 15, 2010 at 3:00 pm

  • Probing Politics: Looking for government we can afford

    Whether you hate it or love it, government is something we can’t live without. It’s what makes a civil society possible. We’re fortunate to have a democratic form of government but it obligates us to continually define its purpose, its scope and its cost. But it can&rsquo...

    Tony Payne • Opinion •
    Monday, February 15, 2010 at 2:50 pm

  • Letter: Praise for Beem on national park

    Kudos to Edgar Allen Beem in last week's Universal Notebook when he states, "Now is the time for wholesale conservation ... The future of the North Woods does not lie in wood chips and toilet paper, it lies in keeping the largest expanse of unbroken woodlands east of the Mississippi intact." ...

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    Monday, February 15, 2010 at 2:10 pm

  • Letter: Public agrees with Beem on park

    Kudos to Edgar Allen Beem for his endorsement of a Maine Woods National Park. The only arguable inaccuracy was the statement that a new national park is unpopular among Mainers. Last November Portland-based Critical Insights, an independent public opinion firm, conducted a statewide survey...

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    Monday, February 15, 2010 at 2:10 pm

  • Letter: Seek proper disposal of meds

    Maine is becoming increasingly aware of the dangers involved both in keeping unused medications in our medicine cabinets and in flushing them or putting them in the trash. What to do? Call your legislators and ask them to adopt LD 821, "An Act to Support Collection and Proper Disposal of U...

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    Monday, February 8, 2010 at 12:40 pm

  • The Universal Notebook: It's time for a Maine Woods National Park

    Daughter Nora tells people she lives in Narnia, C.S. Lewis’s fantasy-land where the White Witch decreed that it always be winter, though never Christmas. Actually, she lives in the White Mountains, where she and her fiance work for conservation groups. Our whole family was up ... 3

    Edgar Allen Beem • Opinion •
    Monday, February 8, 2010 at 10:20 am

  • Editor's Notebook: Make us part of your Sunday-morning routine

    The late President Lyndon B. Johnson once said "the fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character." Johnson's comment – from an era when newspapers were still the primary source of news and information – probably offered more insight into hi...

    Mo Mehlsak • Opinion •
    Monday, February 8, 2010 at 10:10 am
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