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Elections bring contested school board race

But no one stepped up for planning board

Blue Hill café asks neighbors to help neighbors

BLUE HILL—At Harbor House Café, owner Kathy Eaton has transformed her workday from scrambling eggs, grilling paninis and brewing coffee to preparing casseroles, quiches and soups for pick-up, and delivery in the immediate Blue Hill area.

Isle au Haut to everyone else: Stay away!

STONINGTON—The town of Isle au Haut is asking nonresidents to stay off the island, which has an aging community and no medical facilities.

Isolation the new weapon against COVID-19

Social distancing not always easy

Stonington approves sheriff patrols, town budget

Sets aside funds for internet, waterfront, recreation

Schools close over COVID-19

Work, meals available for students

Northern Light Maine Coast, Blue Hill Hospitals expand orthopedic team

ELLSWORTH AND BLUE HILL—Northern Light Maine Coast Hospital and Northern Light Blue Hill Hospital recently welcomed Kurt Judson, PA-C, to the Northern Light Orthopedic team.

DISHS senior Penfold wins MPA Award

DISHS senior Benjamin Penfold won the MPA Principals award.

IS THE AMERICAN DREAM DEAD?

HERE ARE TWO stories about modern Americans’ economic lives.

Student Loans Aren't Working

BUT FREE COLLEGE WON’T FIX THIS SLOW-MOVING CATASTROPHE

Star Wars' Identity Crisis AND OUR OWN

“IT IS A period of civil war,” begins the opening scroll of the very first film in the Star Wars series, which just goes to show that these movies have always been more than space chases and lightsaber fights.

IS THE CRACKDOWN ON PAIN PILLS FINALLY WORKING?

Probably not

INDIA'S MODI IMPORTS AMERICAN DISCRIMINATION

AMERICA’S SUCCESS IN delivering enviable living standards while protecting human rights has made it the moral gold standard of the world, inspiring global movements for social justice, freedom, and democracy.

How the American Dream Became Unaffordable

THERE’S NO DENYING that a big chunk of the economy feels pretty screwed up right now for millions of working-class and middle-class Americans.

How Doctors Broke Health Care AND POLITICIANS MADE THINGS EVEN WORSE

IF THERE’S ONE thing that almost everyone in America can agree on, it’s that the health care system is broken.

EARTH DAY TURNS 50

HALF A CENTURY LATER, A LOOK BACK AT THE FORECASTERS WHO GOT THE FUTURE WRONG—AND ONE WHO GOT IT RIGHT

Can't Afford Your Rent? - Blame Herbert Hoover.

THE FEDS PUSHED CITIES TO IMPLEMENT ZONING RESTRICTIONS. HIGH PRICES AND SOCIAL INEQUALITY WERE THE INEVITABLE RESULTS.

A Cruel Paradox: Beating Virus Means Causing US Recession

The coronavirus is dealing a death blow to the longest U.S. economic expansion on record, triggering layoffs and putting intense strain on the nation’s financial system.

Sedgwick voters approve $3.1 million budget

GSA tuition vote later

Odd Fellows, cribbage and honing math skills

Governor Brooks Lodge #142 mixes fun and learning for students

This Will Get Worse

The grim math of a coronavirus future.

Stonington ballfield project handed over to town

Now it’s up to Town Meeting

School board election voided

Deer Isle approves warrant articles, funding requests

Elvis rekindles memories in Stonington

STONINGTON—When Elvis impersonator Don Boudreau began to croon “Love Me Tender” at the March 5 Salt Air Seniors lunch at the Community of Christ Church, Edie Courville smiled and said, “That was one of my favorites.”

DISES students take aim at packaging waste

STONINGTON—Four students from Deer Isle-Stonington Elementary School stood up in front of the local select boards and asked them to support state legislation that would push companies such as Amazon to cut down on wasteful packaging.

Cheer contest draws hundreds to DISHS

DEER ISLE—An estimated 800 cheerleaders, families, friends, judges and a DJ filled the Deer Isle-Stonington High School gym on Saturday, March 7, for the fourth annual DI-S cheering competition.

SOMETHING IN THE WATER

Opposition to water fluoridation, while often vocal, has been largely a fringe crusade. But solid evidence for fluoridation’s value is surprisingly hard to find.

Reiki Can't Possibly Work. So Why Does It?

The 20th-century Japanese healing therapy is now available in many hospitals. What its ascendance says about shifts in how American patients and doctors think about health care.

WHAT HAPPENED TO JAKE MILLISON?

WHEN A YOUNG RANCHER WENT MISSING, HIS FAMILY SAID HE’D SKIPPED TOWN. BUT HIS FRIENDS KNEW HIM BETTER THAN THAT, AND THEY REFUSED TO LET HIM SIMPLY DISAPPEAR.

IT'S ALL SO… PREMIOCRE

A guide to the new age of Potemkin luxury