WEST PARIS – Elizabeth Beth Wright, 92, of West Paris, died at her home with family by her side on Sunday …
June 2020
Posted inLetters, Opinion
Dave Griffiths: Trump is flailing, not leading
“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.” — Matthew 5:9 So we’ve got macho man (and four-time draft dodger) Donald J. Trump — embarrassed because the public found out that he had scurried down to the White House basement Friday night when protesters gathered loudly in Lafayette Square across Pennsylvania […]
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Posted inLetters, Opinion
Cynthia and Michael Norton: Proposed RSU 10 budget is unrealistic
The taxpayers of RSU 10 will have a chance to vote on the 2020-21 budget on July 14 at their town office. The 5.53% increase is unrealistic and irresponsible in a “normal” year. This is not a normal year; we may never return to normal. Thousands of Mainers are now unemployed and state revenues and […]
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Froma Harrop: Sweden backtracks on its low-pain pandemic cure
Sweden offered hope that the coronavirus could be reined in without great inconvenience or economic pain. Unlike its neighbors in Scandinavia and elsewhere, Sweden didn’t put its people in strict lockdown. Restaurants, bars and shops buzzed with their usual customers. Gyms stayed open, and kids under 16 went to school. Images of Swedes sunning themselves […]
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Rich Lowry: Meet rioters with overwhelming force
Restoring order to America’s cities isn’t a complicated proposition. All it requires is resources and determination, and a firm rejection of the longstanding progressive fallacy that an overwhelming police presence is “provocative” and “escalatory” and must be avoided. As has been established across decades of civil disturbances, it is police passivity that emboldens mobs. When […]
Posted inEncore
Looking Back on June 6
100 Years Ago: 1920 We read almost daily of the arrival of huge cargoes of raw sugar in the ports of New York and Boston: yet we go lo the grocers virtually on our knees and beg for a bit of sweetening at an exorbitant price—often in vain. Is it any wonder that the people […]
Posted inDear Abby
Mom fears history will repeat for daughter marrying young
DEAR ABBY: I have been divorced for 18 years. The main reason for my divorce was that I married too young and wasn’t ready to be a wife and mother. My daughter has just announced her engagement to a truly wonderful man, but she’s only 19. I want to support her, but I’m afraid she’s […]
Posted inNews
Wilton planning board continues revising marijuana ordinance
The Wilton Planning Board continues to review the marijuana and exploding target ordinances.
Posted inSports
Durant: My season is over
The Brooklyn Nets star, who has missed the entire season while recovering from an Achillies injury, says he will not attempt to play when the NBA returns.
Posted inRiver Valley, Rumford Falls Times
Dirigo Elementary School fifth-graders attend sidewalk graduation
Graduates hopped out of their parents’ vehicles on Thursday to return their laptops, pick up their diplomas and any items they may have left behind when schools closed in March due to the coronavirus.