Cartoon for Thursday, Feb. 25

Norway Progress Center to reopen meal service, distribution

NORWAY — The Progress Center has returned to its free Community Kitchen’s Thursday night meals. The reopening and meal distribution will be held at 35 Cottage St. from 3 to 4 p.m. Thursday, March 4. The Community Kitchen’s many years of planning reached fruition in 2020. With the help of grants and donations, the kitchen […]

Austin Bay: Internal divisions are America’s greatest vulnerability

Domestic political and cultural divisiveness has become the United States’ greatest strategic weakness. This grim vulnerability, exploited by international rivals and authentic domestic enemies who despise the U.S. Constitution, puts the U.S. republic in peril.

Area musicians invited to apply for scholarships

ELLSWORTH — Musicians between the ages of 12 and 30 – who reside in Franklin or Somerset county and wish to pursue instruction or musical development on their chosen instrument(s) — are invited to apply to the Uncle Al Fund at the Maine Community Foundation. The scholarship supports further instruction or musical development of musicians […]

Richard Fochtmann: Texas Republicans failed amid disaster

People are hearing the word Antifa, meaning anti-fascists, many times as the right-wing tries to blame the Jan. 6 riots on someone besides Trump and his poor deceived followers. Our grandparents were antifas, fighting against fascists in World War II. The dictionary defines fascism: “A system of government marked by centralization of authority under a […]

Alex Titcomb: NECEC won’t tarnish Maine’s woods

There has been endless debate about the New England Clean Energy Connect for the past two years. While I support the project, I understand the concerns opponents have, except for one. This new section of the corridor will not run through a pristine forest, and claims that it is are either misinformed or flat out […]

YWCA Central Maine to launch Racial Equity and Social Justice Challenge

LEWISTON — YWCA Central Maine will join YWCAs nationwide in launching the 21-Day Racial Equity and Social Justice Challenge on Monday, March 1, as part of a national movement to engage communities in anti-racist work. Participants will receive a daily email directing them to three or four curated activities such as reading an article, listening […]

Richard Whiting: Republican Party needs to come to its senses

When Barry Goldwater said “Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in pursuit of justice is no virtue,” he could not have imagined that 56 years later that Republicans would be led by a man who places his own interests ahead of his party and his country. In Goldwater’s home state of Arizona, […]

Cartoon for Wednesday, Feb. 24

Cal Thomas: Rush explained

Instead of reaching out to understand, employ conservatives in the media and comment fairly on their beliefs, the secular progressives in and out of the media doubled down on their rejection of them. This made the rejected even more loyal to Limbaugh and those who followed him.