Columnist Rich Lowry’s dismissal of the climate crisis, which recently ran in the Sun Journal, directly contradicts the positions of our armed services, the U.S. insurance industry and financial sector. Consider the following statements: The Department of Defense: “As greenhouse gas emissions increase, sea levels are rising, average global temperatures are increasing, and severe weather […]
Alex Lear
A Maine native and Colby College graduate, Alex has been covering coastal communities since 2001. He lives in the Portland area with his wife Lauren, 4-year-old daughter Alaina, and 7-year-old bulldog Walter. He has released four CDs of original music and does occasional research work for Marvel Comics' collected editions.
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Auburn library to offer online nature meditation class
AUBURN — The Auburn Public Library will host “Meditating on the Wisdom of Nature,” led by certified meditation and mindfulness instructor Martin Gagnon, from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 13, online via Zoom. With a nature-based meditation practice, participants can train their minds to become less reactive and more at peace. From the plant […]
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Rich Lowry: Behold, the delivery revolution
What Amazon, and e-commerce more broadly, is doing is selling goods to consumers at low prices, while giving them more convenience than ever before (rapid delivery to their doorsteps, with the possibility of easy returns) and creating new jobs in the process.
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Austin Bay: 2020’s bio-economic world war: Communist China lied; millions of human beings died
As 2021 begins, the Chinese Communist Party cover-up will continue. A CCP court just sentenced citizen-journalist Zhang Zhan to prison for questioning the CCP’s early 2020 falsehoods.
Zhan will spend four years in jail for telling the truth about communist China’s Big Lie.
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Bob Neal: The Countryman: Susan Collins – radical?
Few U.S. senators have had more political power in recent years than Susan Collins, Republican of Maine. Arguably, no one has made less use of her power than Collins. She often calls herself a moderate and has identified herself with Sen. Margaret Chase Smith, also a Republican from Maine. Smith, though, used her power to […]
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Jesse Jackson: Georgia’s long history of voter suppression
Now that Donald Trump’s baseless lies about voter fraud have been summarily dismissed by the courts, perhaps some attention can be paid to the true threat to free and fair elections: not voter fraud but systemic and massive voter suppression.
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Dirigo MS students receive president’s education awards
DIXFIELD — T.W. Kelly Dirigo Middle School is participating in the President’s Education Awards Program for academic recognition. Recipients of the Academic Excellence Award have received an 85 or higher in all subjects and scored in the top 10% of their cohort on the NWEA reading or math assessment. Recipients of the Academic Achievement Award […]
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YWCA Central Maine offers ‘Galentine’s Day’ celebration
LEWISTON — YWCA Central Maine will celebrate the importance of friendship among womxn on “Galentine’s Day” – Friday, Feb. 12. The YWCA invites members of the community to send a “Galentine” to a special friend. On Feb. 12, YWCA staff will deliver baskets of treats and well wishes to womxn and girls in the Lewiston […]
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West Paris church lists January service speakers
WEST PARIS — The First Universalist Church of West Paris has announced its January speakers. The church is observing the safety practices of wearing masks and social distancing. Members are not singing during the hymns, but Tom Coolidge is providing music. The schedule is as follows: Jan. 3: Led by guest speaker, Maryli Tiemann, speaking […]