Ben Lampron, a Lewiston native and St. Dominic Regional High School graduate, has been named CEO of Gassen Company, a homeowner association management business based in Minnesota. Prior to joining Gassen in 2022 as chief operating officer, Lampron was president of Metro Mold & Design, a plastics injection molding company in Minnesota for four years. […]
Alex Lear
Staff Writer
Alex Lear is a lifelong Mainer who has spent 25 years in journalism -- the first 20 as a reporter for newspapers in Damariscotta and Falmouth, then as Opinions section editor for the Sun Journal and now a digital producer with the Maine Trust for Local News. His long-running “Learics” column won first place in the Maine Press Association’s 2023 Better Newspaper Contest. He and his wife Lauren are kept young by their 9-year-old daughter Alaina. Send feedback and suggestions to Alex.
Posted inLetters, Opinion
Marya Goettsche Spurling: Maine’s primary care funding needs a major boost
Your weekend cover story of the growing problem of a primary care shortage in Maine began to scratch the surface of what we are all facing. Thank you for shining a light on this crisis. I am a family physician who has practiced primary care in Central Maine for eight years, and I am increasingly […]
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Posted inLetters, Opinion
Cara Courchesne: Rep. Cloutier ‘the right choice to represent us in Augusta’
I’m excited to support Kristen Cloutier’s reelection to represent House District 94. As a small business owner who is also a single mom, I’m grateful for Kristen’s leadership on passing paid family and medical leave. Kristen’s commitment to this program means Mainers like me will have the financial security to manage life’s emergencies. This kind […]
Posted inLetters, Opinion
Carole Richards: The answer’s not blowing in the wind
We’ve all seen the tall, floppy balloon figures at car dealerships. They remind me of one of our presidential candidates, bending over to the right to please his rich donors, flipping back up in the air waving his small arms, bowing low to the left to his misguided followers, and back up flopping his tiny […]
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Cal Thomas: The Secret Service makes me nervous
The bureaucracy seems to be putting more effort into protecting agency management than it did Donald Trump.
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Rich Lowry: The teleprompter campaign
It’s extraordinary that the Democrats had one presidential candidate whom they didn’t trust with interviews and have replaced him with another, fresh and younger candidate whom they also don’t trust with interviews.
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Susan Estrich: ‘Donald being Donald’
A president who is not disciplined about what they say and do is not someone who is up to the job. Donald being Donald, I submit, is a very dangerous thing.
Posted inConnections
Auburn railroad club to host open house
AUBURN — The Great Falls Model Railroad Club is set to hold an open house during the Lewiston Auburn Balloon Festival. The clubhouse, located at 144 Mill St., will be open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday to Sunday, August 17 and 18. There will be activities for youth, all the club’s layouts will be […]