Archive for ‘Opinion’

  • Why you shouldn’t eat worms

    I remember it as if it were just 45 years ago. It’s a Saturday morning and my dad and I are in his blue ’64 Chevy pickup on the way to the dump. I am working a knuckle furiously in my right eye, trying to dislodge some painful chunk of grit that has been bothering […]

  • A brief occupation

    By Michael T. Corrigan Guest Columnist Since I recently attended an “Occupy” rally in Augusta, I read Tom McLaughlin’s column with interest last week. He’s right that local and national OWS protestors are “unfocused.” They are, deliberately so, because they don’t want to be co-opted by the two major parties. They are against business as […]

  • Showing the Spirit of the Season

    Thanksgiving marks the beginning of the holiday season. This is a time for giving and sharing and looking out for those less fortunate than one’s self. Unfortunately, with the continued problems in the economy, there are still too many people who need help.  Maine people have a long tradition of helping their neighbors, though. According […]

  • Brown Creeper

    In the dim light of early morning, fog hides the far shore of the lake, and all is still. The scene is muted and gray, until the sun breaks through a slit in the clouds, sending a bright spear of light across the water. The fog lifts and the far shore comes into view. In […]

  • Protecting Kids from Sex Offenders

    I am very pleased to let you know that the only bill that I submitted for the next session of the Maine Legislature was unanimously approved for consideration by the Legislative Council last week. For much of my legislative career, I have been working on improving the various laws over the years designed to protect […]

  • A tribute to Mrs. Shorey

    By Mike Corrigan Special to The News It was a little bit like working for one of Heaven’s more able but headstrong Angels. If you didn’t have a mission, you’d better find one, and you always had to watch out for that Flaming Sword. In the time I knew her, Eula Shorey was a classic […]

  • Helping Our Veterans

    Nov. 11 is Veterans Day, and while it was originally established to mark the end of World War I, it has since been expanded to honor all of our veterans and thank them for all they have done, and are still doing, for us. I have long felt that we don’t do enough for these […]

  • Falling back for a quiet hour

    Daylight Savings Time (DST), which we recently celebrated with an hour of quiet reverie, was first proposed in 1885 by George Vernon Hudson, a New Zealand entomologist who wanted more daylight after work so he could collect bugs. The idea crawled along slowly, gathering momentum like a spider scuttling down a drainpipe, and eventually garnered […]

  • Beverly J. MacLeod

    HARRISON — Beverly June Whitton MacLeod, 70, a 31-year resident of Harrison, suffered a heart attack Sunday morning in her home and was life-flighted to Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston where she died on Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2011, with her loving husband and family by her side. She was born in Portland on Oct. […]

  • Unintended consequences

    By Price Hutchins Nature will win. We will not, can not, destroy the earth. A specific niche may disappear, a species may not survive our misdeeds, but nature will persevere. The consequences of our actions will change our surroundings not make them disappear. Consequences are something that follows from a set of conditions. In my […]