What’s happening in the next two weeks? Selectmen meet Tuesday, February 27, at 6:30 p.m. in the multi-purpose room at the Town Office/Post Office complex. Weld Winter Wildcats are meeting at the Skoolhouse Variety on Wednesday February 28 at 6:30 p.m. — all are welcome. Thursday is the first day of the third month of […]
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Letters to the Editor
SCHOOL SHOOTINGS CAUSE AND EFFECT Ask yourself, ‘What has changed over years of student conflicts’? After the Second World War Junior and High school students in the late 40s and 50s would challenge each other with their fist. As time progressed the young individuals found more power by joining a local street or […]
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Lincoln again
Last week’s column contrasted President Lincoln’s eloquence with the thin gruel served up as political speech in these degenerate days. To paraphrase a German philosopher: “Nothing straight was ever made from the crooked timber of politics.” We must grant that his successes were not purely a product of eloquence; he knew how to play politics […]
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Silhouettes tell a story of prevention
AUGUSTA – On Tuesday, February 20, 2018, American Legion Post 22 will host a Suicide Prevention Information Session at the State House Hall of Flags, located on the corners of Capitol and State Streets in Augusta. The event will run from 11:30 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. Information as well as community providers will be available to […]
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Poet's Corner
All Weather Friends, Mid Winter Hello Woody, glad to see You surviving the winter. Where’s Woodine? Haven’t seen her around. How are those offspring of yours? Saw one of them, two days back. Proud to call you neighbors. Did you see the three deer On the lawn earlier? Three years now, we’ve enjoyed Having your […]
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Blanketing the World with Denmark’s Hygge
How to survive the rest of winter is today’s question. Mainers know that winter has a way of causing us to be snow schlepping around in fur-lined boots at a time when April showers are elsewhere. In the quest to find something interesting and innovating to take me through the remaining winter months, I came […]
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Calendar
Benefits Saturday, Feb. 17: Turner, Spaghetti dinner to benefit Pasquale Bifulco, 4 p.m., Boofy Quimby Hall, Route 219. Donations. 212-8960. Saturday, Feb. 24: Carrabassett Valley, Carrabassett Valley Academy Scholarship Fundraiser raffle auction, 6 p.m., Sugarloaf Inn, 5092 Access Road. 237-2250. Books Wednesday, Feb. 21: Jay, “The Danish Girl,” book and film discussion group, 6 p.m., […]
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Lincoln and eloquence
Oxford County’s GOP has its Lincoln Day Dinner on Friday February 9, Franklin County’s Republicans have theirs the following Saturday. It’s 209 years since his birth on February 12 in Hodgenville, Kentucky and a good time to look at the huge impact of his speeches. Ronald Reagan was not up to his standard, no president before or since […]
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Some tax facts
This column provides a set of facts which seem to be indisputable. They are presented in no particular order. Analysis and conclusions are up to the reader. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) divides ten of the largest “tax expenditures” in the individual income tax system into four categories: 1) Exclusions from taxable income for employer-sponsored […]
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Farmington team wins award at first meet
At right two members of Robo Cougars, a rookie team from Mt. Blue Middle School in Farmington, watch to see if their robot completes a mission during the Western Maine FLL Qualifier held recently in Jay. The team won the Robot Mechanical Design award.