RANGELEY — Rangeley Lakes Region Historical Society has hired Michelle Landry as executive director. She is due to start her duties March 7. Landry has more than 20 years of experience with museums and cultural institutions, most notably as superintendent and CEO of Roosevelt Campobello International Park in New Brunswick, Canada, and deputy director at Castle […]
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 inBusiness, Noteworthy
Rangeley Lakes chamber names 2022 board of directors
RANGELEY — The Rangeley Lakes Chamber of Commerce announced the results of its latest board of directors election at its Jan. 26 annual meeting. Joanne Dunlap, who served on the Executive Board as president in 2021, was elected to another one-year term as chamber president. Margie Jamison, Linda Dexter and Sue Damm, who all served […]
advertisement
Posted inBusiness, Noteworthy
Horrigan joins Bar Harbor Bank & Trust in Brunswick
BRUNSWICK — Hannah Horrigan has joined Bar Harbor Bank & Trust as branch relationship manager for the bank’s Brunswick location. In this role, she leads a team of banking professionals to provide solutions and guidance to help individuals, families and businesses in Midcoast Maine meet their financial goals, according to a press release from the […]
Posted inBusiness, Noteworthy
Geiger promotes Samantha Stewart
Geiger, a promotional products distributor, recently promoted Samantha Stewart to the role of key account manager in Corporate Programs. The Auburn woman began her career at Geiger in 2013 as a mail/sample room clerk, and in 2016 was promoted to customer relations specialist, and in 2019 to key customer service specialist. She was promoted to […]
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Jay Nutting: How harvesting the sun can save family farms
In order to stay in business, many farms are diversifying through different products, opportunities, and revenue streams. A solar farm should almost always be one of those tools for a farmer to consider — if they and a developer so choose.
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Cal Thomas: Dirty tricks: The sequel
Dirty tricks are not to be confused with negative campaigning, which at least has some component of truth, but a filing by special counsel John Durham that alleges the 2016 presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton paid a technology company to “infiltrate” or “spy” — the word Donald Trump uses — on his presidential campaign and later while he was president, goes beyond dirty tricks into the illegal.
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Dana Connors: Keeping commitments is as important for government as it is for business
Solid waste policy is extremely dynamic, regional, and essential for Maine people and municipalities. The Lewiston facility has been an essential part of the region’s complex solid waste management system, assisting the state of Maine and the larger New England region in their ambitious efforts to meet recycling goals. That work must continue.
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Leonard Pitts Jr.: Does being a land of plenty make us a land of good?
America remains a land of plenty, of course, but the present shortages are a poke in the eye to any sense of sacred national entitlement. It turns out this ability to have whatever, whenever, is fragile enough to be undone by idling trucks or an unruly virus.
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Froma Harrop: Deaths from not moving
It’s not always easy defining “the American way.” Is it a life of hiking and yoga and kale salads for lunch? Or is it sitting all day at a desk, in a vehicle or in front of the TV, all the while downing nuggets and fries?