DIXFIELD — Susan R. Holmes, a retired small business co-owner and homemaker from Dixfield, died unexpectedly on Jan. 6, 2020 at …
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Obituary: Edwin Elliot Cummings
QUAKERTOWN, Pa. – Edwin Elliot Cummings, 76, died Tuesday, Dec. 24, 2019, at his home in Quakertown, Pa.
Born Feb. 19, 1943, …
Obituary: Dwight Russell
OXFORD – Dwight D. Russell, passed away on Jan. 6, 2020. He was born on May 18, 1966 to Sharon L. …
Thursday’s college roundup: UConn suffers rare home loss
The top-ranked team in women’s basketball has a 98-game home winning streak stopped by No. 6 Baylor.
Girls basketball: Edward Little cuts Leavitt loose
Hannah Chaput scores a game-high 21 points and Chantel Ouellette drops in 12 to lead the Red Eddies to a 42-35 victory.
Boeing documents show employees discussed ways to manipulate regulators
The company released the documents to congressional investigators probing how Boeing 737 Max jets were certified by the Federal Aviation Administration before two crashes killed 346 people.
Austin Bay: Soleimani’s arrogance reveals contempt for enemies
Understand these facts first and foremost: Qassem Soleimani was a career state-sponsored terrorist whose financial, ideological and strategic sponsor was the Iranian theocratic dictatorship the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, founded in 1979. Another fact: In 1984, the U.S. State Department placed Iran on its list of state sponsors of terrorism. If 1984 sounds like an Orwellian […]
John Parsons: I am thankful for Rep. Golden
Mainers should be proud and thankful for Congressman Jared Golden. Rep. Golden’s response to the question of impeachment has been calm and measured. Though I might not have voted the way he did, it is clear that he carefully considered the available evidence prior to making his decision, as the Constitution requires him to do. […]
Michael Boom: Credible threat to national security
When Islamic terrorists brought down the World Trade Center towers, the threat to national security interests was credible enough to go to war. We constructed military bases so we could execute special operations to the maximum benefit. We now have a credible threat to our national security interests, posed by Mexican drug cartels. Since Mexico […]
James Richter: Change America’s political course
In this era of uncertainty, I wanted to share this quote from George Orwell, the author of “1984” and an indomitable defender of liberty against threats from both the left and the right: “The point is that we are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are […]