Archive for ‘Opinion’

  • Wonderland

    On the Downeast coast of Maine is Wonderland, a lovely little peninsula that juts out into the ocean. It is well named. The shore is lined with pink granite bedrock, broken up by the power of tides and wave and strewn about in a jumble of blocks the size of sofas. In the interior of […]

  • Seeing through my grandmother’s hands

    It’s a cold October. Crouching in the dim and dusty attic, stretching out my hands, feeling deep under the eaves blindly through the cobwebs, my fingers alight on the edge of a long-forgotten cardboard box; and into the box they creep, and there, so far from me, my fingertips touch something hard and smooth and […]

  • Good for the economy/Bad for the economy

    By Scott Finlayson Guest Columnist Bridgton is coming under siege from all quarters and therefore it is vitally important to understand that not all development is economically healthy. Since McDonald’s has made overtures to come to town others have started looking seriously at Bridgton. Because we have no ordinances on the books to regulate this […]

  • The News wins MPA awards

    It is always to sit back, take a deep breath and bask in the glory of a victory. A year ago, The Bridgton News reached the pinnacle of the journalism world when it was named the Maine Press Association Better Newspaper Contest’s “Newspaper of the Year” in the Weekly II division. Upon returning for the […]

  • Foliage Cruise

    The day was crisp and cool, and the deep blue surface of the lake mirrored the color of the sky. High overhead, thin mare’s tail clouds spun their wispy webs, the leading edge of a storm working its way up the Atlantic coast. With several days of cold rain in the forecast we decided it […]

  • Why don’t we live now?

    While in my early 20s, I inherited a gorgeous antique bedroom set from my grandmother. Purchased just after the Great War, the five walnut pieces were brown and heavy and ornate, adorned with flutes and scrolls and marquetry, laced with cubbies and hidden drawers. As a child, when we visited, I slept in that high […]

  • Food production

    By Ronald J. Fryer I can accept that I am one of almost seven billion humans descended from someone in Tanzania’s Great Rift Valley in East Africa. Some millions of years ago after our species diverged from the other great apes we were able to evolve a bigger, more effective brain, walk on two feet, […]

  • Three crows

    After breakfast this morning, I was putting a load of laundry into the washing machine when my husband called to me to drop everything and look out the window. I rushed over to the window in time to see a crow standing on the lawn, and I couldn’t figure out what was exciting about that. […]