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Why Is Nobody Replying To My Emails?

People are less gullible than you think

How The War On Sex Work Crushes Underprivileged Women

That prohibitionist laws are always, always, enforced more heavily upon the poor, the disadvantaged, and minorities is not, I think, controversial.

The Grueling Class

Why Silicon Valley loves Stoicism

Immaculate deception

Religiously driven, anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers are filling the Planned Parenthood void—at taxpayers’ expense.

In It to Win It

We need a massive climate war effort –now.

US, China Deal Aims To Simmer Long-Running Trade Tensions

President Donald Trump signed a trade agreement Wednesday with China that is expected to boost exports from U.S. farmers and manufacturers and is aimed at lowering tensions in a long-running dispute between the economic powers.

EU Chief Warns UK Must Compromise To Get Brexit Trade Deal

The president of the European Commission warned Britain on Wednesday that it won’t get the “highest quality access” to the European Union’s market after Brexit unless it makes major concessions.

How Iran Wages Cyberwar?

Trump says he struck hard to prevent a war with Iran, but he may still get trouble

The amazing people we meet through the year

As reporters, writing for deadlines sometimes makes us lose sight of all the stories we have written over the course of the year. So, when your boss asks you to recap the highlights of your year, you lean on the archives to remember what you have written.

Mariners locked in halfway through season

DEER ISLE—The boys basketball team beat Bucksport 73-56 on December 19. We led 20-12 after the first quarter and built the lead more after that. Bucksport had a couple players suspended, so they were no match for us.

Junior class leads GSA track team in Orono

ORONO—A small portion of the George Stevens Academy indoor track team competed in the second meet of the season at the University of Maine in Orono on December 28.

Eagles notch win over Searsport

Undefeated streak continues

‘People' Stories Made This A Year To Remember

While every town saw its share of municipal and school issues, and keeping the public informed is a hugely important part of my work as a reporter, it was the stories of local folks doing cool, often civic-minded things that stood out for me in 2019.

Glamping outfit meets with Surry Planning Board

SURRY—Glamping, or glamorous camping, may come to Surry with Under Canvas, a company that offers “glamping adventure packages” near national state parks.

HERE & ABOUT

Blue Hill Bach presents a Downeast “Messiah”

Facing budget crisis, George Stevens Academy requests tuition hike

BLUE HILL—An announcement sent to parents of George Stevens Academy students November 21 alerted them to what amounts to a financial crisis for the independent high school, which is requesting a tuition hike to $14,200 per student.

The Rise of New Spain

Within a couple of years of arriving in Mexico, Hernán Cortés conquered the Aztec Empire.

GSA Girls Show Promise In Early Losses

BLUE HILL—In their opening games of the 2019-20 varsity season, the Eagles came out on the losing side but with one big reason to celebrate: the promise of better scores to come.

Weight Room Promotes Fitness At DISHS

DEER ISLE—For the past year, Deer Isle-Stonington High School athletic director Betsy Woodward, the DISHS Booster Club and other volunteers have been working to complete a weight room project that will allow the entire student body access to workouts and fitness activities on a regular basis.

Golden Sun Childcare Opens In Blue Hill, Sedgwick

BLUE HILL—While the unexpected closure of the Blue Hill YMCA Daycare stunned parents and left them scrambling to find child care in September, one former staff member stepped right up and fast-tracked a new one.

‘More confident' DISHS boys basketball team begins season

DEER ISLE—The boys basketball team has good numbers with many of the last year’s team that did make the tournament returning. I noticed in the scrimmage with Narraguagus that we have gotten taller and more confident.

Proposed Blue Hill ordinances to require petitions, votes

Healthy Ecosystem Ordinance, Unencapsulated Polystyrene Ordinance

GSA boys basketball team feeds off culture of success

BLUE HILL—Success on the basketball court has become a culture for the George Stevens Academy boys basketball program, and with the season start only a few days away, the team has been busy preparing for what coach Dwayne Carter hopes will be another strong showing for the Eagles.

Garden Club establishes Blue Hill Community Garden

BLUE HILL—This summer, the Blue Hill Garden Club partnered with Healthy Acadia’s Downeast Gleaning Initiative to plant public pick-your-own grow boxes in downtown Blue Hill.

Experience, depth key as Mariners enter season

DEER ISLE—The girls basketball team returns most of last year’s team that went to the Eastern Maine finals. Though our expectations will be high, Coach Randy Shepard is working to get the best combinations with each position.

Castine gallery owners go “green-er” this Thanksgiving

Art for conservation

Buck's Harbor Market will keep the lights on this winter

Open year-round

Blue Hill YMCA opens senior center

BLUE HILL—The Blue Hill YMCA has found a way to utilize the space left vacant when the Blue Hill Childcare Center closed in September. That space has now been converted into a senior center for senior YMCA members and the general senior population to gather for coffee, puzzles, board games and socializing five days a week.

Cool It, Krugman

The self-sabotaging rage of the New York Times columnist

The Woman Who Made Modern Journalism

Ida Tarbell helped pioneer reportorial methods and investigative ambitions that are as potent today as ever.