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Appointments Susan Adams and Michael Fallona recently joined the Northeast Hearing and Speech Board of Directors. Adams, a nutritionist and lactation counselor for the Women, Infants and Children Food Program at the Opport...

Mid-Coast United Way $40K short of $2M goal

BATH — United Way of Mid Coast Maine has reached 98 percent of its $1.96 million fundraising goal, the organization announced. The annual campaign raised nearly $1.93 million. "Let’s celebrate all the great results that have been achieved to date, and commit ourselves to...

Out & About: Oratorio Chorale opens its season

By mid-November, nearly every performing arts organization in southern Maine has opened its fall-winter-spring season. One of the last to start is the Mid-Coast-based Oratorio Chorale, which has a pair of concerts coming up Saturday and Sunday in Topsham and Yarmouth. Music director Peter Frewen ...

The Universal Notebook: The biggest loser

When I went to bed on Election Day I was bummed out because, despite the fact that President Obama and marriage equality had prevailed, I was under the impression that state Sen. Dick Woodbury had been unseated by a former Navy SEAL with the backing of tens of thousands of dollars of out of state...

The View From Away: Election 2012 produced some unexpected results

This was my son Bobby’s first presidential election. The first time I voted for president, Richard Nixon soundly trounced the recently deceased George McGovern. By that I mean McGovern passed away recently, not shortly before running for president, although he could hardly have done worse i...

Letter: Obama has 'radicalized' the nation

In Maine, Nov. 6 was a good day for blue and identity politics, but said nothing about our big national issues of war versus peace, Wall Street versus Main Street, constitutional rights versus restrictions, democracy versus oligarchy. It said nothing because nothing was said by either candidate f...

Letter: Beem ignores 'nincompoops' who toe the party line

As I read Edgar Allen Beem's column of Nov. 7, I found myself both irritated and disappointed. While I was bothered by the "where ...

Letter: Lawmakers must ignore party ideology

Now that the elections are over, it is my hope that our newly elected and re-elected state and federal representatives will waste no time in focusing on the issues of concern to older Mainers and their families. Issues such as financial and health security are of paramount importance to many of o...

Letter: Frank misses the point about Citizens United

Most people have enough common sense to reject the ideas that corporations are people, and that money is speech, through deductive reasoning. Yet these concepts have been codified into law by our Supreme Court in the oligarchical “Citizens United” ruling. Halsey Frank’s recent

Letter: Brunswick hospital helps educate nurses

I support approval of the pending Certificate of Need application for Parkview Adventist Medical Center to join Central Maine Healthcare.