Blue Devils win meeting between two of state’s top teams.
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Indoor track and field results: Edward Little’s Jillian Richardson wins twice at KVAC meet
Red Eddies senior wins 2-mile and 800-meter races at Bowdoin College.
Boys’ basketball: Lisbon starts fast, cruises past Wiscasset
Greyhounds score first 23 points of game.
Outdoors in Maine: Checking the backtrack of 2018
The New Year is almost always a welcome event, even if we are all a year older. The slate is clean. As we look ahead, it’s a lot like a field of virgin snow. As we move on, the tracks we leave will take us to unseen ground. This is especially sweet for outdoors people […]
On Skiing: The good old days? Not so fast
The most recent message from Jackson Hogen at Realskiers.com brought back some memories. Jackson wrote about his early years on skis and his first real skis, Rossignol Stratos with Look Bindings. I thought about my first real skis, Paris (what else would a kid growing up in South Paris have?) ridge top hickories, 6 feet […]
Talks to resume after Trump says shutdown could last ‘years’
The standoff has prompted economic jitters and anxiety among some in Trump’s own party. But he appeared Friday in the Rose Garden to frame the weekend talks as progress.
The reason I don't trust CMP
In 1979, my wife and I started to renovate her family cottage in Poland. We striped the inside to the outside walls. We had new wiring done. As summer changed to winter, our electric bill went up each month. The January bill was more than double. I called Central Maine Power and asked for someone […]
Let's take our city back
Another brawl in Downtown Lewiston. When is it going to end? As a Lewiston taxpayer for more than 30 years, I find it absolutely insulting to those who pay for a Police Department that refuses to do what it is paid to do. There are many undesirables in Lewiston that need to go away. I think […]
Taking issue with Cal Thomas
In a recent column (Dec. 27), Cal Thomas suggested we may well be living on the threshold of the end times, considering the many media reports of “wars and rumors of wars.” But history teems with records of such. In fact, in 2003 The New York Times published an article on war which stated: “Of […]
Biotech advances bring tough choices
A new medical device may change almost everything we think about making babies. It may also sweep away the current controversy over abortion while creating new ethical dilemmas. We speak of the artificial womb. Also called a biobag, an artificial womb is a big plastic sack filled with synthetic amniotic fluid. A tube going into […]