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
David Oshansky: No ‘tanks’ to another military vehicle in park
I am writing about the well-meaning L&A Veterans Council’s suggestion to add yet another surplus vehicle (a tank) to the Veterans Memorial Park (“Veterans Council wants to add tank to Lewiston park,” March 15). As a 32-year Army veteran who rose up the ranks from private to retire as a major, I am 100% pro-military. […]
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Posted inBusiness, Noteworthy
Great Falls and Monmouth credit unions complete merger
AUBURN — Monmouth Credit Union members voted March 15 to merge with Great Falls Regional Federal Credit Union. Both have been staples in their respective communities since the early 1950s with their dedicated group of members, according to a Great Falls news release. The merger will combine Great Falls’ 3,300 members with Monmouth’s 2,200 members, […]
Posted inBusiness, Noteworthy
Lewiston adds 4 to municipal team
The city of Lewiston recently hired four new employees. Shelley Norton has been hired as a city planner by the Code & Planning Department. She had worked as a land use planner for the Androscoggin Valley Council of Governments since 2017 and as a planner for the town of Malta, New York, for four years […]
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Lewiston ambulance service earns accreditations
LEWISTON — United Ambulance Service has received accreditation from the Commission on Accreditation of Ambulance Services. It has been Maine’s only nationally accredited ambulance service since 2006, maintaining compliance with national standards of excellence for over 15 years, according to a news release from United. Every three years United undergoes a voluntary review process that […]
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Auburn rec department names new leadership
AUBURN — Auburn’s Recreation Department last December named Jeremy Gatcomb as director and Dawna Daigle as deputy Director of the Recreation Department. “I am proud to have Jeremy and Dawna leading our recreation efforts,” said City Manager Phil Crowell in a city news release. “We have built some great momentum — and a strong reputation […]
Posted inLetters, Opinion
Carole Richards: ‘Let’s be one America’
I worry about the big divide in our country. If this situation in Ukraine becomes a war, I wonder if we have any patriots who will roll up their sleeves and say, “What can I do to help my beloved country?” Or do we have a bunch of whiners who will cry over the price […]
Posted inLetters, Opinion
Tom Hart: Biden is ‘a puppet,’ ‘not a leader’
Thomas Shields of Auburn wrote a very good letter (“Questions for Democrat-controlled government,” Feb. 24) and truth about what’s happening in this country with this useless President Biden. The gas price is going way up. People shouldn’t blame it on the war; Biden could make the Russians with Vladimir Putin suffer by opening the Keystone […]
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Neria Douglass: Lake Auburn drinking water must be protected
A five-story gravel pit, the Asbestos Dump, Old Burning Dump, Pionite/Sawdust Dump, Interim Landfill and Demolition Dump have been approved for commercial development next to Lake Auburn, our drinking water. When I was an Auburn counselor, hazardous waste from the dumps was leaking. The gravel pit was a quarter of its current area and depth. […]
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Cal Thomas: Deeper and deeper in debt
Like so much of the Constitution, the left and too many on the right have ignored history and sage advice when it comes to the economy. We are doomed to repeat that history unless we get our economic house in order. That will require more Americans taking a pledge to care for themselves and rely less on government, and it will mean electing people who will heed the warnings and advice of the people quoted above.