Alex Lear

Peter B. Johnson of Rangeley has joined the Maine Sustainable Forestry Initiative as program coordinator, the initiative’s State Implementation Committee has announced. As coordinator, Johnson will facilitate the implementation of the initiative’s standard through projects and programs administered by the Maine State Implementation Committee. He will work with the State Implementation Committee steering committee, member […]

NORWAY — Norway Savings Bank has promoted Carter Loring-Lessard to assistant vice president, market manager for Windham and Gray. The Auburn resident arrived at the bank in 2018 as a personal banker and was promoted to supervisor of the Bridgton branch in 2021. In 2022, he was appointed branch manager in Windham. Loring-Lessard has served […]

LISBON — Lisbon Community Federal Credit Union has promoted Kristi Foss to Lisbon branch manager and Tracy Collins to risk mitigation manager. Foss, who recently served as teller supervisor in the Lisbon office, has spent 18 years with the organization. In her new role she will manage branch operations and mentor her team. Collins has […]

The Auburn Better Homes and Gardens/Masiello Real Estate Group recently donated about 30 snowsuits for children ages 3 to 5 at the Promise Early Education Center.

AUBURN — Jaime Brochu has joined Fontaine Family — The Real Estate Leader’s Auburn team. Brochu, grew up in Greene and attended Leavitt High School. She had an 11-year career with Norway Savings Bank as the loan operations assistant manager and assistant vice president for mortgage originations. A resident of Auburn, she holds a sales […]

This isn't to slight the contribution of female Los Angeles Fire Department personnel who are out there giving it their all in dangerous conditions, but to note that of all the phenomena that don't care about race and gender, a rampaging inferno must top the list.

If we don’t tell our own stories of greatness, who will?

There should be an absolute ban on cutting old growth and mature forest on all public lands, effective immediately. All forestry operations should be based on maximizing carbon intake.

The appalling Los Angeles fires illustrate a climate, terrain, vegetation and governmental vulnerability a clever enemy could exploit, especially enemies like Russia and China who practice hybrid warfare.

JFK’s speech turns 64 years old on Monday. Yet despite its age, and the radically different times in which we live, it reads with youthful vitality.