Kyle Haley, 24, of Rangeley, started off taking photos using disposable cameras when he was younger, then graduated to a point-and-shoot digital camera and the rest is history. The 2012 graduate of Rangeley Lakes Regional School fell in love with taking landscape photos when he was on a trip to Alaska. The Rangeley native works […]
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Leading the way with RCV
I want to congratulate the volunteers and voters of Maine who make the state’s motto, “Dirigo,” a reality. Maine truly leads the way in helping people realize the true meaning of the word democracy — a representative government for all people. Ranked-choice voting is far from a liberal “conspiracy” or “a secret agreement to carry […]
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Virginia "Ginny" Cole
SOUTH PARIS — Graveside services for Virginia “Ginny” Cole, of South Paris and formerly of Bethel for many years, were conducted 11 a.m. Saturday, June 23, at the Riverside Cemetery, South Paris, with the Rev. Donald Mayberry officiating. Arrangements were under the care of the Meader & Son Funeral Home, Cremation and Monument Services, 3 Franklin […]
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Melissa M. Stevens
WAREHAN, Mass. — On Monday, June 18, Melissa May Stevens was suddenly taken away from her family, friends and community from an unknown acute cardiac event. She had just turned 36 years of age. “Missie” was born in Lewiston, May 16, 1982. Missie spent the first nine years and the last seven years of her life […]
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Faye M. Tobie
HEBRON — Faye Marie Tobie left this world Thursday, June 21, with peace and grace surrounded by the love of her family and her loving Beacon Hospice caregiver, Crystal. Faye was born in Hartland on March 2, 1932. She graduated from Hartland Academy in 1950 an honor student and an accomplished basketball player for her school. […]
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Getting space ready for business
We often think of space as a big, empty void, except for the occasional planet, moon or star. But in reality, it’s getting dangerously crowded up there. More than 20,000 pieces of space debris larger than four inches fly around the planet at blistering speeds of 15,000 to 20,000 mph. Perhaps more concerning are the […]
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Immigration has become the litmus test of U.S. nationalism
NEW YORK — Democrats are exultant that Donald Trump had to reverse his policy of separating immigrant families at the border. And there is good reason to celebrate: The policy was mean-spirited and unnecessary. But I do wonder whether this episode will prove to be as damaging to the president as liberals think. With this […]
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Don't fantasize about a benign U.S. before Trump
By Pankaj Mishra Bloomberg opinion President Donald Trump, it is clear, presides over a regime of untruth and personally inhabits a realm of fantasy. But some of his critics have fallen prey to illusions of their own about the U.S. and the world before Trump. Take, for instance, Trump’s cruel disregard for the suffering of […]
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Democrats riding on the immigration controversy
Need proof that the current controversy over children of undocumented immigrants is more political than humanitarian? Hillary Clinton said she was “adamantly against illegal immigrants” and supported a border wall until she ran for president in 2016. In his 1995 State of the Union address, President Bill Clinton said: “All Americans, not only in the […]
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The Southern Poverty Law Center has lost all credibility
WASHINGTON — After years of smearing good people with false charges of bigotry, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has finally been held to account. A former Islamic radical named Maajid Nawaz sued the center for including him in its bogus “Field Guide to Anti-Muslim Extremists,” and this week the SPLC agreed to pay him […]