LEWISTON — Central Maine Medical Center has been certified by the Joint Commission for quality of care in an array of orthopedic services, the hospital announced recently. The certification recognizes CMMC for providing the highest quality of patient care and safety. The areas of excellence highlighted in the certification are total hip replacement, total knee replacement, […]
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Grant received for dam project
The Poland Conservation Commission recently received a $2,000 grant from Norway Savings Bank to help fund improvements to Waterhouse Brook Park and build a bridge over the dam across the brook. The park is a roadside scenic area near the town center. The pedestrian bridge will link up with the 2-mile Waterhouse Brook Trail. […]
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What has Poliquin done for workers?
The cut in taxes that Rep. Bruce Poliquin’s recent television ad claims Jared Golden voted against benefited the people at the top of the earnings ladder. I don’t know anyone who received a $2,000 reduction in taxes, as Poliquin claimed. Gov. LePage’s budget resulted in underfunding state agencies such as Child Protective Services, which resulted […]
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Kavanaugh is a great judge
One of Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s heroes is his mom, a former public-school teacher at McKinley Tech (a predominately African-American high school in Kavanaugh’s hometown of Washington, D.C.). She taught during a difficult time in this nation’s history, filled with racial tension and segregated schools. When 3-year-old Brett Kavanaugh sat in the back of his mother’s […]
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Looking Back on Sept. 22
100 Years Ago: 1918 Six thousand cases of Spanish influenza are reported at Camp Devens and the Boston Red Cross Headquarters has summoned nurses from all New England hospitals to care for the soldiers suffering from the disease. An Auburn boy in the camp writes that the disease has spread through the entire encampment but that […]
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Why send another Democrat?
Democrat Jarrod Golden wants to work for the people of Maine’s 2nd District. I think it is reasonable to look at how hard the past two Democrat congressmen worked for Maine as a predictor of how hard another Democrat will work. During his 12 years in Congress, Mike Michaud, passed 11 bills, which includes two […]
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Capricorn: Be helpful to avoid failure
CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DAY: Tom Felton, 31; Bonnie Hunt, 57; Andrea Bocelli, 60; Joan Jett, 60. Happy Birthday: Travel about, learn all you can and be prepared to adapt to whatever comes your way. Being ready to tackle obstacles in order to reach your destination will prove you aren’t one to back down or […]
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Support for Question 1
I hope everyone will vote “yes” on Question 1 — universal home care. Help with home care would have made a huge difference for my family as we cared for my mother, Betty Williams. Three years ago, she died from multiple myeloma. We struggled to care for her at home for many years. I am […]
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Standing on the line for unions
Recently, I received a letter from McKayne Boedeker, executive director of New England Citizens for Right to Work. He is from New Hampshire. In his letter, he asked me to contact my elected officials to show my support for the Right to Work law. I replied to him as follows: “Had we workers not been […]
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Death notices for Saturday, Sept. 22
BIGONSKI — Dianne A., 68, of Bridgton passed away Thursday, Sept. 13, in Lewiston. A memorial visitation will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 21, at the Chandler Funeral Homes & Cremation Service, 8 Elm St., Bridgton. A memorial service will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 22, at the funeral […]