Auburn college to offer free workforce training

AUBURN — The Center for Workforce and Professional Development at Central Maine Community College is partnering with area employers and service providers to recruit candidates interested in completing their heat pump installer training. This 40-hour course meets the Efficiency Maine heat pump installer training requirements needed to qualify for rebates, financing and sales leads. Using […]

Rich Lowry: Alvin Bragg makes history — preposterously

Lesser prosecutors would have been daunted by the prospect of creating a national melodrama and a norm-breaking prosecution of a former president over what is, in essence, a misdemeanor business-records charge.

Froma Harrop: Creeps hunt kids on social media

We have entered a new social media hell, where online creeps run sadistic schemes targeting high school kids. Since late 2021, their ruses have driven at least 20 young people, mostly boys, to take their lives.

Editorial cartoon for Friday, April 26, 2024

Judy Green: Theriault offers background, values to U.S. Congress

I’m writing to express my support for state Rep. Austin Theriault, who is running for U.S. Congress in Maine’s 2nd Congressional District. Austin is a former NASCAR driver who has already represented Maine well on the national stage. He comes from a Franco-American Aroostook County logging and trucking family, and he has his own racing […]

In rebuttal: Glenn Chateauvert: In Biden vs. Trump, these numbers matter

This is in response to Ellen Field’s letter (“Republicans vs. Democrats on handling the economy,” April 17). Her letter talks about economic growth and gross domestic product numbers under Republican vs Democrat administrations. I offer some numbers that really matter. Under former President Trump I was paying $1.79 a gallon for gasoline. Under President Biden, […]

Editorial cartoon for Thursday, April 25, 2024

Lewiston’s Safe Voices names new director

LEWISTON — Safe Voices Executive Director Elise Johansen will be succeeded by Rebecca Austin, the agency’s director of programs, when Johansen steps down in June. Austin has been with the agency for 15 years, beginning first as an advocate based in Franklin County and most recently leading the programmatic teams that run the agency’s advocacy, […]

Michael T. Peters: Jewish people deserve to be celebrated: Judeo-Christian teachings built America

The Jewish people are part of our America and deserve our respect and our protection. We should not tolerate what is taking place on American campuses, and we should demand that the influencers who are teaching this new Marxist garbage be terminated.

Cal Thomas: The empires begin to strike back

Let’s hope that others follow the lead of Columbia’s president and Google management, and we stop wet nursing kids who for too long have demonstrated their ignorance and in some cases denounced America while reaping its benefits.