Our country needs significant preservation to provide safety and profitability to our people. Roads, mass transit, water systems and the electric grid are all in sad shape because it’s time for more than mere maintenance. The rest of the industrialized nations make America appear to be stuck in the ’60s with innovations in their rail […]
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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Posted inLetters, Opinion
In rebuttal: Bob Casimiro: U.S. needs border control, orderly immigration
University of Maine at Farmington student Milly Mpundu’s guest column about U.S Immigration and Customs enforcement and the Border Patrol is disturbing, in that the author seems totally unaware we are a sovereign nation, with a Constitution and laws, and we are defined by our borders (“Abusive practices by US ICE must stop,” Nov. 27). […]
Posted inLetters, Opinion
Roland Hachey: Rotundo’s return to Legislature would benefit Lewiston
I was extremely pleased with Peggy Rotundo’s announcement that she will be a candidate for our Lewiston State Senate seat. Her experience in the state Legislature — especially her years of service on the Appropriations Committee, including serving as chair — has helped our community and our state. I find Peggy extremely approachable. She listens […]
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Cal Thomas: Isn’t it rich?
The death of composer Stephen Sondheim at 91 is more than the end of an era. It is the end of a chain of great Broadway musicals dating back to the 1920s, when Jerome Kern’s “Showboat” first dazzled theater audiences.
Posted inLetters, Opinion
Earl St. Hilaire: Golden represents all constituents, not just party
I am a small business owner; people may have had a beer or drink at my bar, the Blue Goose. We’ve been serving the community for years, and I look forward to many more. Since the beginning of the pandemic the economy has taken hit after hit. However, Congressman Jared Golden has been doing everything […]
Posted inLetters, Opinion
Clem Bechard: Stop dividing America, work to unite it
I thought of a way the silent majority can show its disdain for Washington. On Dec. 8 I think we could do so on our porch flagpoles, stamps and car stickers. We could put the American flag upside down for that one day. I figured the day after the Pearl Harbor attack would be a […]
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Jamie Beaulieu: Recalling an Acadian Thanksgiving
As Thanksgiving approaches, I find myself thinking more of the Wabenaki and French who inhabited this region from 1605 to 1755 than I do of the Puritans who attacked them. I do this as a descendant of leaders from all three groups spurred to action in that time. My story begins with Sachem Membertou, a […]
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Violet Howe: Bethel needs a teen homeless shelter
Homelessness in Maine is increasing. LD 48, a bill to help create shelters, has been dead in the community for over a year. There are four shelters in the Oxford County area. The nearest shelter to Bethel is Rumford, and South Paris. There needs to be a shelter specifically for teenagers who are struggling to […]