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  • The endurance of Beatlemania: How the Beatles keep fresh (and profitable) after 40 years

    Jul 29, 2009 12:50 pm

    Forty years ago this September, John Lennon told his bandmates he'd had enough, and the Beatles split.

    The world didn't know this until the following April, when Paul McCartney issued media copies of his eponymous first album with an interview with himself, announcing that the party had ended. Let It Be, released in May 1970, was the band's final studio album, although it primarily contained material recorded the previous year. In December 1970, John Lennon's song "God" spoke the final words on the matter: "The dream is over."

  • Some words on the passing of R.H. Reny (1926-2009)

    Jul 25, 2009 12:00 pm
     Robert H. Reny, a giant in the Maine business community who founded Renys 60 years ago in Damariscotta, died on Friday, July 24 after a long illness. My mother, Cynthia Lear, had known "R.H." as a father figure since she began working in the Renys main office in 1983. Now the corporate manager of internal audit and collections for the company, she wrote the following for the man who was loved and respected by many. -Alex Lear

    Today a truly great man has passed, and there are many grieving hearts of those who loved him. There will never be another man like Robert H.

  • A driver's attempt at avoiding the rear-view blue light

    Jun 19, 2009 2:00 pm

    I was driving along I-95 north of Augusta two weeks ago when I saw a dot far up the road that resembled a state trooper.

    My Interstate instincts, if you will, caused me to let off the gas immediately and coast to a nice 65ish speed as I neared the cruiser. All seemed well as I passed by, even when he did slowly pull out behind me. After all, I was totally legal, right?

    And then the blue lights went on.

    Turns out it wasn't the trooper who caught me driving 81 in a 65; actually, it was the police helicopter aiming his radar gun down at me.

  • Lost and found: A 'Lost' fanatic's view on where the show is heading

    Jun 09, 2009 4:30 pm
     I'm not a huge fan of watching TV. In fact, I canceled my cable because I was spending nearly $40 a month to watch a show that would be released on DVD a few months later. DVD is how I pretty much watch TV these days, and when I first watched "Lost" on DVD, I was hooked.

  • m-learicslost

    Jun 09, 2009 2:05 pm
     A 'Lost' fanatic's view on where the show is heading

    I'm not a huge fan of watching TV. In fact, I canceled my cable because I was spending nearly $40 a month to watch a show that would be released on DVD a few months later. DVD is how I pretty much watch TV these days, and when I first watched "Lost" on DVD, I was hooked.

  • m-learicslost

    Jun 08, 2009 10:30 am
     A 'Lost' fanatic's view on where the show is heading

    I'm not a huge fan of watching TV. In fact, I canceled my cable because I was spending nearly $40 a month to watch a show that would be released on DVD a few months later. DVD is how I pretty much watch TV these days, and when I first watched "Lost" on DVD, I was hooked.

  • Why should you be reading this?

    May 20, 2009 1:20 pm

    The title says it all. There's no one holding a gun to your head to read this blog, but I appreciate you doing so all the same. Through the advent of blogs I and other members of the crew of The Forecaster have the opportunity to type our minds about a variety of subjects as often as we'd like; far more often than we can in the print edition.

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