4 years ago
Halves and steps
Sometime or other the kinship feature in your genealogical software will indicate that someone is a half-cousin or half-sibling. If you’re new to genealogy this may puzzle you.
Opinion
4 years ago
New guys on the block
To the editor:
Back in January, during the city council’s organizational meeting, council failed to take action on charter items 2.01/2.06.
4 years ago
Signs of our times
To the editor:
As I drive around our city of Presque Isle I see so many signs both large and small on some of our councilpersons’ property. I am wondering if all of our councilpersons are only representing the party they have posted on their properties.
4 years ago
Senator Collins has changed
To the editor:
In 1996, Susan Collins vowed she’d serve no more than two terms, then return to Maine and let someone else take her place. She is now running for her fifth term.
4 years ago
Experience and integrity matter
To the editor:
We are writing in support of Mike Carpenter for the Maine Senate. A man of experience and insight, integrity and empathy, wisdom and bipartisanship, Carpenter stands in contrast to his opponent, Harold Stewart, a young man well on his way preparing to be a career politician and demonstrating a commitment to Trump party-line policies and practices that favor the elite, and do the bidding of monied interests, regardless of potentially harmful effects on ordinary Mainers.
4 years ago
Content with content this winter?
Our last two winters have featured tons of snow, as I outlined in my last column. The question is, will this one follow suit? Time to dig into the details in my 2020-2021 winter forecast.
4 years ago
Cooking with Susie Q – Week of October 12, 2020
It is cool today. I like fall weather. I love the smells, the crisp air, the colorful leaves. So, get outside, clean out the garden, pick up the yard, roll up the hose, shut off the outside faucet. Winter is coming whether we are ready or not.
4 years ago
Bolstering critical health services in rural Maine
All Mainers deserve the same access to health care regardless of where you live. However, those of us who live in rural Maine know that this isn’t always the reality, which is why the rural hospitals, health clinics and emergency services we do have are so important.
