FARMINGTON — CarePartners Plus, a new access-to-care program at Franklin Memorial Hospital, offers health insurance with a CoverME.gov Marketplace provider (Community Health Options or Harvard Pilgrim) and MaineHealth Free Care working together to provide free or low-cost health care and prescriptions. Patients get to choose a Silver-level Marketplace plan that works best for them, plus […]
2022
In a word: Unwrapping the origins of Christmas names
Christmas will soon be here, so what better time to take a look at some of the words associated with the holiday beginning with the big day itself?
Photo Album: Nor’easter whips through Lewiston and Auburn
By the middle of the day Friday, there had already been water rescues, massive flooding, trees down, roads closed and power outages in the six figures around the state.
Cal Thomas: The false god of politics
The Christmas season offers an annual opportunity to push the reset button and consider a better way, a way that will demonstrably produce results that politics cannot.
Bob Neal: The Countryman: No heroes in this saga
Immigration is both our triumph and, of late, our tragedy.
Froma Harrop: TikTok needs to leave these shores
TikTok’s role in torching so many American brain cells would seem reason enough to get rid of it. But that’s not why national security experts and politicians of both parties want it banned in the United States.
Austin Bay: Putin’s latest bad bet: Strategic bombing
Vladimir Putin bets cold, hungry and bombing-terrorized Ukrainians will surrender, even if the British, Germans, Japanese, Ethiopians, et al. did not.
Tom Putnam: Hearing my father’s voice in the carols of Christmas past
Our family singalongs are not the same without my dad’s presence, and our holiday traditions have changed over time. But in the privacy of our homes and the recesses of our minds, those familiar Yuletide carols continue to evoke his spirit.
Is Santa’s sleigh zero carbon? The answer lies in reindeer poo
A tale of gassy reindeer and psychedelic mushrooms.