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A reminder that March 18 will be the last Tuesday print edition of The Times Record. Friday's papers will be larger and filled with more local stories about your communities. Our team of reporters will continue pumping out the news, which we'll still be adding daily to our website. In addition, I'll continue rolling out this weekly newsletter, as well as Saturday's Midcoast for the Record. We may even have some more to add in the future, so keep an eye out!
On a completely unrelated note, it's sheep-shearing time at my homestead. This task includes lifting three hefty, fluffy, uncooperative sheep into the back of a Honda HRV. I'll have some amusing photos to share next week.
Find more news, events and information online.
- Nick McCrea |
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MORE NEWS |
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This week, we brought you a story about story that could be a peak into the future of the Midcoast's working waterfronts. Island Institute has launched an electric boat toolkit aimed at guiding aquaculture businesses and fishermen through the process of switching their vessels from combustion engines to electric, which can be charged at dock.
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Island Institute’s Phoebe Walsh visits Hylan & Brown in Brooklin as the company works to electrify its boatyard with a grant-supported ePropulsion outboard. Courtesy of Island Institute |
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Over the weekend, demonstrators gathered in Bath to protest DOGE cuts to the federal workforce, billionaire Elon Musk's role in the government, and feared cuts to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. Reporter Paul Bagnall spoke with protesters about their concerns.
In other news, Bowdoin College has announced that it will not change its investment strategies following a student referendum calling for a halt to investing in companies that manufacture weapons for Israel. The decision was made by an ad hoc committee and approved by trustees, and comes less than a month after a five-day student encampment protesting the college’s lack of action on a student referendum that called for the college to divest all assets it holds in businesses tied to Israel as a form of protest against the war.
And our friends at the Harpswell Anchor covered the town's recent election, where voters selected new officials and approved a contribution to Brunswick's Curtis Memorial Library. |
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PHOTO OF THE WEEK |
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Reader Karen Egee shared this photo of a dog exploring in the snow as high tide comes up over the frozen streams of Maquoit Bay in late February. Have a photo you'd like to contribute to Midcoast Now? Send it to editor@timesrecord.com. |
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THE WAY IT WAS IN THE MIDCOAST |
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Around this time in 1977, Maine's legal drinking age was about to jump from 18 to 20. There was a lot of coverage at the time focused on the impact to Bowdoin College and surrounding bars and pubs.
A decade later, lawmakers moved the drinking age to 21.
Click here to read more on this story from 1977 from our archives on Newspapers.com. |
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Nick McCrea is editor of The Times Record. Prior to his move to the Midcoast, Nick worked for a decade as a reporter at the Bangor Daily News, including a stint covering the northern portion of the Midcoast based in Belfast. He's a graduate of the University of Maine and Syracuse University's Newhouse School of Public Communications. In his "free time" he and his partner, Nyssa, run a doggy daycare and try to keep track of their own two dogs, two cats and small herd of sheep. |
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