Linn Wells pulled no punches. It’s Saturday, May 30, 1970. The long-time Bowdoin coach, eight-year Navy veteran and television sportscaster was outraged. Now station manager and “roving reporter” for Farmington’s WKTJ, Wells…
By Paul Mills My last column featured the early life of Johnny Lee, who had many ties to Maine and died just a few weeks ago just shy of his 93rd birthday.…
By Paul Mills The man who has had more close calls and dodged more bullets than just about any person I have ever known died at the end of March. The wonder…
At age 20, too young to vote for himself, he won a contested primary election for state representative. The next year he would be the youngest member of the Maine legislature. And…
Justice Alexander’s Latest Book: Don Alexander has most recently been celebrated as having brought the two major political parties to the table as chair of the state’s Reapportionment Commission. His adroit and…
written by Paul Mills The record breaking wildfires that have been ravaging California in recent weeks has brought new attention to parachutists, those that leap from aircraft into the cauldrons of such…
By Paul Mills News that the legislature by bipartisan majorities has taken a step towards an open primary system in Maine has shed new light on the way our state chooses its…
By Paul Mills Citizens of Franco-American descent comprise fully one fourth of Maine’s population, the largest share of any state in the country. They have achieved prominence in public life that now…
Daylight Saving Time is now here and with it an occasion to take a glimpse at how we arrived at it. The concept of Daylight Saving was first notably hinted at in…
By Paul Mills We love our anniversaries. Newspapers typically feature them as in century and half century retrospectives. So, let’s now turn the clock back a bit, not 100 or even 50…