PHILLIPS – The High Peaks Creative Council (HPCC) has completed the Phillips part of a barn quilt series placed throughout the High Peaks Region. Ian Reinholt recently hung this “feathered star” on the Phillips Area Community Center (PACC) joining the Phillips Public Library Studio, the Phillips Historical Society barn, the North Franklin Agricultural Building, Morgen […]
2019
Posted inThe Franklin Journal
Mt. Blue Area Garden Club celebrates its 50th birthday
Mt. Blue Area Garden Club celebrates its 50th birthday
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Posted inMaine, Maine Crime, News
Attempted traffic stop turns into a rescue after crash and vehicle fire
With luck and quick thinking by Deputy Kevin Collins, a 17-year-old boy survived the fiery crash after apparently fleeing from the officer Tuesday night in Waterboro.
Posted inConnections
Auburn Adult and Community Education announces September courses
Call 207-333-6661 or visit www.auburn.maineadulted.org for the complete course descriptions and to register.
Posted inLetters, Opinion
Robert Hamm: Choices for Nancy Pelosi
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is a genius. She does not want to try for impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump right now because she knows that, if she were successful, most senators would be too afraid to vote against him, and he would be exonerated. That would allow him to gain strength for […]
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Austin Bay: America must protect its combat technology
The desire to ensure technological reliability and, ultimately, combat superiority, guided the Trump administration’s mid-July decision to terminate U.S. plans to sell the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter to Turkey. Give Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan his due. On the global diplomatic stage, Erdogan can display power-player skills diplomats can admire, no matter what they tell […]
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Marc Thiessen: Lack of discipline hurts Trump administration
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration’s inability to defend the defensible is simply mind-numbing. Even when the president is doing the right thing, he and his team can’t seem to get out of their own way. Take the administration’s perfectly reasonable decision to implement a new rule to ensure that immigrants seeking permanent residency in the […]
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Leonard Pitts: Trump’s anti-journalism hit squad getting underway
“The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.” So says Dick the Butcher in Shakespeare’s “Henry VI, Part 2.” Though often regarded as a Renaissance-era lawyer joke, the line is actually a backhanded compliment to the legal profession. Dick, a follower of the rebel Jack Cade, knows that before their insurrection can succeed, […]
Posted inLetters, Opinion
Jim Benson: I am opposed to Gov. Mills
Gov. Janet Mills is ignoring the voters of Maine who are opposed to the proposed transmission line from Canada to Massachusetts. She supports killing babies in mothers’ wombs and ending the lives of people with health issues. Where in God’s name is any sanctity of life in any of her proposals? Maine voters should take […]
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Washington Post: Brazil and the world need to strike a balance to save the Amazon
The following editorial appears in The Washington Post: President Donald Trump was not the only populist conservative leader who drew criticism at the Group of Seven meetings last weekend in France. In between discussions of Trump’s trade wars and historically bad idea to readmit Russia to the G-7 was concern that Brazil’s new president, Jair […]