Mark LaFlamme reflects on facial hair, feather dusters and, gulp, the extraordinary size of Maine’s woodland creatures.
2025
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After devastating flood, Jay leads the way on climate change preparation
Jay is part of a state program that is helping hundreds of communities build resilience to rising water levels and more powerful storms.
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Support the Medicare for All Act | Letter
Thank you to Drs. Jeffrey Barkin and Daniel Bryant for their excellent opinion pieces about our health care system in recent Sunday editions. Support for Medicare for All is strong among patients as well as health care professionals. A recent Data for Progress poll finds that 65% of all Americans support a Medicare for All […]
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Portland’s warming shelter should allow for later departures | Letter
We can all agree that it’s unfortunate, but evidently unavoidable at the moment, I guess, that the warming shelter for the homeless is located way out on Riverside Street, far from where the heaviest concentration of homeless are. But why is it that people are turned out of the shelter at 6:30 a.m.? Early morning […]
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Support the work of service animals — leave your pets at home | Letter
For people with disabilities, navigating shared public spaces is difficult enough as it is.
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Merry Christmas, (months-old) Baby | Victoria Hugo-Vidal
I give you my baby-focused holiday gift guide.
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Oversight of congressional stock trading is tricky — and necessary | Jim Fossel
Banning members of Congress and their spouses or dependents from owning stocks isn’t a solution, but it’s a decent start.
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Exemplary investigative reporting on Maine school boards | Letter
Kudos to Emily Duggan, the Maine Sunday Telegram and the Kennebec Journal for their exemplary investigative report (Nov. 23) on the parents’ rights movement and the intrusion of outside voices and money into the very fabric of life in Maine. That forces from outside Maine can try to influence local school board elections, encourage disruption […]
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Obituary: Dr. Manuel G. Sangalang
LEWISTON – Dr. Manuel G. Sangalang, 90, affectionately known as “Manny,” of Lewiston, beloved husband, father, grandfather, and devoted physician, passed away peacefully in December 2025. Born in 1935, in Manila, Philippines, Manuel was the son of Martin and Paz Sangalang. He graduated with his Medical Doctor degree in 1962 from Manila Central University, a […]
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Obituary: Irene Diane (Fortin) Poulin
LEWISTON – Irene Diane (Fortin) Poulin of Lewiston, 73, passed peacefully to be with her Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, on …