As temperatures rise, plants produce more pollen over a longer period of time. But locally collected pollen counts are on the way to help Mainers with seasonal allergies navigate the worst of the sneeze season.
2025
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Opinion: When it comes to the National Park Service, there is no deep state
Its only concern is for the future of America’s best idea, one facing serious challenges.
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Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Opinion: Postal Service privatization is no remedy for budget bloat
The focus should instead be on how to build on the existing agency’s strengths.
Posted inBusiness, Lewiston-Auburn, Maine, News, Schools & Education
Cuts to federal food program put local farms, schools in a bind
The Trump administration is ending a program that helped districts and producers bring local food to Maine students.
Posted inLetters
Letter: Maine gets more than enough sun for solar energy
Recently, in Portland, we see the landscape and skyline growing with shiny, spendy buildings like The Roux Institute, WEX’s new corporate headquarters and the new buildings at USM on Bedford Street. But one might take a moment, while passing by, and consider what’s missing from these massive, modern projects: any significant integration of solar photovoltaic […]
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Jim Fossel: The long slog toward the Blaine House is officially underway
Twenty months out, Secretary of State Shenna Bellows gets the ball rolling on the ridiculously long campaign to replace Gov. Janet Mills.
Posted inLetters
Letter: Suggestions for a Mills apology to the president
Some suggestions for a stately response from Gov. Mills. How about a quarter-throated apology? Or a third-throated? No way should Mills give Donald Trump a full-throated apology. For what? “See you in court”? The dreaded “court” where he’s been declared a felon? I got a quarter-throated possibility: “Sorry — didn’t realize the C word would […]
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Fryeburg Academy play debuts April 11
FRYEBURG — Fryeburg Academy presents The 39 Steps! Mix a Hitchcock masterpiece with a juicy spy novel, add a dash of Monty Python, and you have The 39 Steps. A fast-paced whodunit for anyone who loves the magic of theatre! This two-time Tony and Drama Desk Award-winning treat is packed with nonstop laughs, over 150 […]
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: Cuts to libraries, library services cannot be downplayed
The second Trump administration would have us believe that we’ll be just as well without. We won’t.
Posted in175th anniversary
Looking Back for April 6, 2025
100 years ago: 1925 An editorial in the Lewiston Evening Journal declared that “one thing necessary” for Maine’s future “is to have a great, handsome highway from Kittery to Portland.” It said the visitors will gain an impression of the state from what they see when they enter Maine, one reason that Arthur Race of […]