LEWISTON — Central Maine Healthcare has hired Gaurav Kakked, a gastroenterologist who will be seeing patients at Central Maine Medical Center. Dr. Kakked is very excited to join the team at CMMC, specifically because of the high number of interventional endoscopic ultrasound procedures performed at the hospital, according to a CMH news release. “Some of […]
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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Lewiston’s SeniorsPlus names new chief human resources officer
LEWISTON — SeniorsPlus, the designated area agency on aging serving Androscoggin, Franklin and Oxford counties — has hired Holly Greenleaf as its new chief human resources officer. Greenleaf has worked as a human resource professional for more than 20 years, mostly within the Maine public school system. She worked for the Maine Department of Transportation […]
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Turner insurance agency’s Shelley Jamison retires after 35 years
TURNER — Shelley Jamison of Bessey Insurance has retired after 35 years. She started working in the insurance industry in 1990 with her mother, Norma Bessey Colby, when Bessey Insurance Agency was run from her home, according to a news release. Colby had taken over the agency from her parents, Marion (Waterman) Bessey and Gerald […]
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Rich Lowry: Why we love rockets
The tests of Starship, the world’s largest and most powerful rocket, are the latest iteration of Musk’s approach of rapid innovation toward the goal of sending men to the moon again, and then Mars. It is an expression of a basic human instinct for exploration and adventure, with the rocket as its symbol and vehicle.
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Patricia Tibbetts: Thanks to LaFlamme for trip down Lewiston memory lane
I’m responding to Mark LaFlamme’s column “Long gone things we miss most,” Nov. 20. I enjoy his columns; this one sure took me down memory lane. Growing up in a rural area in the 1950s, getting to “The City” (Lewiston) was a rarity. On Saturdays, people could flag down a Greyhound Bus a quarter mile […]
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Carl Sheline: ‘From all of us here in Lewiston, thank you so much’
This Thanksgiving, what follows our grief is gratitude. Gratitude for these letters of concern and sympathy that let us know that we are far from alone.
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Rodney Abbott: West Paris school closure ‘a terribly disappointing development’
The closure of the Agnes Gray School in West Paris remains a terribly disappointing development. The school is the heart of the community. The administration of School Administrative District 17 has been far less than transparent about the process. To begin with, the school was allowed to go years without proper maintenance. Why? Then, on […]
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Fred Henderson: Harris and Trump
Kamala Harris is a good, decent, honest person. Mr. Trump got elected. Fred Henderson, Greenwood
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Joe Valecko: Entertainers threatening to leave Trump-led U.S.
Why should anyone care if an entertainer threatens to move out of the U.S. if Trump won the election? I would be happy to pack their bags and send them on their way. It is their choice and their opinion; big deal. These are mostly has-been entertainers who are no longer in the news or […]