The real estate market in Androscoggin County is heading into 2021 on a high note.
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Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Jim Wellehan: LA Metro Chamber commits to helping businesses reduce carbon, costs
The Maine Climate Council released its plan to achieve an 80% reduction in carbon emissions by 2030. It may sound like an ambitious plan, but one that Maine – and the world – will have a very damaged and difficult future without; a world that you would not want to inflict on your children and […]
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Posted inLewiston-Auburn, News
Poland farmers say past year offered new challenges, newfound gratitude
POLAND — Just weeks after COVID-19 struck Maine in mid-March, Dr. Charles Foley was packing his bags to go serve his country. On March 31, the 57-year-old plastic surgeon who owns a farm with his wife was deployed by the U.S. Army Reserve to the epicenter of this country’s pandemic in New York City, where […]
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What Biden’s good climate plan is missing so far
A “green by default” option for consumers is working in California and Germany.
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Fatuma Hussein: Reflections while looking forward to 2021
Our system is unjust and broken. For many black and brown communities, we suffer a lot, and it is not right. Notably, it is not suitable for young people of color to feel helpless and hopeless. That harm must stop. Some may say that is not going to happen. I say, yes, we can. We can stop this injustice by eradicating racism, just like trying to eliminate the coronavirus. The pandemic has taught us valuable lessons.
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Froma Harrop: The movie you want versus the movie you have
It is the job of the film critic to sniff at new movies. And so, it was expected that reviewers would drag “Wonder Woman 1984” onto the operating table. With other movies at other times, I might welcome their take on cinematography, character development and narrative drive. But with the fun pretty much wrung out […]
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Can Joe Biden ‘heal’ the United States? Political experts disagree
Biden’s winning campaign message was one of unity. But even the people who study polarization can’t agree on whether it’s possible to unify the United States.
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Cal Thomas: Biden’s climate change litmus test
From the looks of President-elect Joe Biden’s selections for cabinet positions and other high offices it seems belief in “climate change” has become a litmus test. Biden appears to have raised climate change to the level of a religious doctrine.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Maine Crime
Androscoggin County police log: Jan. 2, 2021
Androscoggin County • Daniel Catlin, 45, of Durham, on charges of domestic violence aggravated assault, domestic violence criminal mischief, domestic violence criminal threatening and obstructing the report of a crime, 8:30 p.m. Friday on Hallowell Road in Durham. Auburn • Guy Landry, 61, of Auburn, on a charge of operating under the influence of intoxication, […]