News
Portland constable hopes to avoid confrontations over mask mandate
As part of Portland's new, renewable 30-day mask mandate, the city appointed an existing employee to serve as a constable to help enforce the...
Arts & Living
Leftovers: Yoda, Arya, Amy, and other heroes
A Yoda-like mentor once told me lists are the lazy way out for a columnist. That they take up space without saying much and...
Riverside trails and warming huts: Cross-country ski at Penobscot River Trails...
I drove three hours one way last February to go cross-country skiing. After I had happily skied the day away, I drove three hours...
Viewpoint
A View from the Hill: We gotta get outta this place
My brother told me I seemed a little down lately.
What a surprise.
At least I’m not Kevin Costner’s character John Dutton in “Yellowstone,” I joked....
Politics & Other Mistakes: Solving the pot problem
In Maine, it ought to be as easy to open a shop selling recreational marijuana as it is to open a store selling beer....
The Universal Notebook: My New Year’s resolution
Ordinarily, I do not make New Year’s resolutions. I’m just not that goal-oriented or all that methodical. But for 2022 I decided I had...
Your Viewpoint: Advice from a ‘Mainer in exile’
For a native Mainer in exile, there is something unnerving about living in a single county that contains all of northern New England's population...