LOVELL — The Greater Lovell Land Trust has appointed Erika Rowland of Bridgton its executive director, effective June 1. She will succeed Rhyan Paquereau, who was appointed interim executive director in 2023, and who will remain at the trust as stewardship and conservation director. Rowland served as executive director of the trust from 2019-23, where […]
Alex Lear
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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.
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Maine Franco-American Genealogical Society appoints treasurer
The Maine Franco-American Genealogical Society has appointed Normand Lamie its treasurer. Lamie, a Lewiston resident, brings a wealth of knowledge and diverse experiences to help the board meet its goals, according to a news release from the society. Lamie is an independent contractor and licensed professional engineer who also holds degrees in business and public […]
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Lewiston’s Central Maine Heart and Vascular Institute hires cardiologist
LEWISTON — The Central Maine Heart and Vascular Institute, part of Central Maine Healthcare, has hired Dr. Jared Tobolski. Tobolski, a general cardiologist who specializes in noninvasive cardiology, has been named director of the institute’s preventative cardiology and subspecialty clinic and director of cardiac rehabilitation. Tobolski studied at the Drexel University College of Medicine in […]
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Lewiston’s Central Maine Heart and Vascular Institute hires cardiologist
LEWISTON — The Central Maine Heart and Vascular Institute, part of Central Maine Healthcare, has hired Dr. Jared Tobolski. Tobolski, a general cardiologist who specializes in noninvasive cardiology, has been named director of the institute’s preventative cardiology and subspecialty clinic and director of cardiac rehabilitation. Tobolski studied at the Drexel University College of Medicine in […]
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Rich Lowry: No, Columbia isn’t complicit in ‘genocide’
People who won’t condemn a terror group or the horrific pogrom it carried out on Oct. 7, who never demand that Hamas release its hostages, who single out for condemnation a democratic society beset by profoundly illiberal forces all around it, are presuming to lecture everyone else about “complicity.”
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Cal Thomas: Demeaning, diminishing, destroying
The Jewish people have a slogan, “Never Again,” in reference to the Holocaust. With the incendiary language and threatening behavior rolling across many college campuses, we may be approaching “again.”
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Clarence Page: Campus protests carry echoes of five decades ago
Unfortunately, we’re seeing much of the same anger and outrage over the relentless bombing of Gaza and the cruel hostage dramas of Hamas that led to mass arrests and graduation cancellations that some of us old-timers easily and unhappily recall from the Vietnam era.
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Froma Harrop: Banning menthol cigarettes was always a bad idea
There needs to be a certain radical acceptance of the right to make bad choices.
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Austin Bay: Iran’s Marxy-Nazi proxy army invades U.S. universities
Marxy-Nazi progressives play word games to confuse, delude and condemn their opponents, but more importantly to camouflage their authoritarian programs, totalitarian personalities and genocidal tools of mass murder and starvation.