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  • The Universal Notebook: Is there hope for Obama?

    Republicans tend to think that all Democrats love President Barack Obama and follow him blindly into the hopeful future. Not so. Especially not now. When then-Sen. Obama first announced that he was running for the presidency, my initial reaction was that he lacked the essential expe...

    Edgar Allen Beem • Opinion •
    Monday, June 17, 2013 at 11:10 am

  • Abby's Road: The challenges of gift giving

    I like to give gifts that can be measured calorically. In my book, you haven’t really said thank you, or Happy Birthday, or sorry about your appendix, if you haven’t handed over a bottle of wine, or a cake made of cookies, or the gluten-free brownies you doubt are at all enjoyable.

    Abby Diaz • Opinion •
    Monday, June 17, 2013 at 11:00 am
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  • Global Matters: From Raymond to Rwanda

    What do you call a non-profit organization that educates and empowers women in a strife-torn country, sells their crafts and artisanal works using Amazon.com's bar coding, warehousing and distribution systems, pays the women 50 percent up front, and then shares 100 percent of the profits with them? ...

    Perry B. Newman • Opinion •
    Monday, July 27, 2009 at 10:00 am

  • Letter: Cundys Harbor Library success

    Through the generosity of local businesses, our patrons and the public, who donated and bought books, the Cundys Harbor Library had a very successful book sale on July 17 and 18. Thanks also go to the donors of goods and services which were raffled off at the sale. A meal at the ever-popular B...

    Opinion •
    Monday, July 27, 2009 at 9:50 am

  • Letter: Pownal, Durham lose in RSU 5

    Freeport has controlling votes over RSU 5. Having resolved ourselves to that fact, Pownal is trying to work within this consolidation to give our children the best education. In a neighborly gesture towards Pownal and Durham, Mr. Regier, a Freeport voter, made a motion to leave the curriculu...

    Opinion •
    Monday, July 27, 2009 at 9:40 am

  • Letter: Scarborough decision a 'travesty'

    On July 15 at the Scarborough Town Council meeting there was an outpouring of residents, taxpayers and interested parties concerning the proposed town "land swap" of Depot Street with the owners of the Lighthouse Motel. When almost 30 people spoke against the "land swap," 377 si...

    Opinion •
    Monday, July 27, 2009 at 8:00 am

  • Letter: Inconsistency in Scarborough

    We want to thank Scarborough Councilors Sullivan and Roy for the interest, concerns and reservations they expressed at the council meeting July 15. The concerns and reservations that you stated, that are now part of public record, are inconsistent with the way you eventually chose to vote. We were q...

    Opinion •
    Monday, July 27, 2009

  • Letter: Reconsider Pine Point vote

    A "tired" chairman of Scarborough's Town Council and an eager new town manager campaigned successfully to shut down a historic roadway to our ocean beach here in Pine Point forever, gifting it to an abutting ocean business, under the guise of a fair exchange for a narrow parking strip of l...

    Opinion •
    Monday, July 27, 2009

  • Letter: Scarborough's Depot Street stunner

    I was stunned by the 4-3 vote in favor of Scarborough's Depot Street proposal following the comments by Councilors Rancourt, Sullivan, Roy, and D'Andrea during deliberation. We are giving up more land then we are getting in the land swap. No two-way traffic or a turnaround for adequate access...

    Opinion •
    Monday, July 27, 2009

  • Letter: Scarborough issue is access

    This is a request to Scarborough Town Councilors Roy and Sullivan to ask for reconsideration of the July 15 vote by the Town Council to give Depot Street to a seasonal business in exchange for a 22-foot corridor access to the beach. Depot Street has belonged to the town and has provided year-ro...

    Opinion •
    Monday, July 27, 2009
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