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The pharmaceutical industry has made it clear that it will sue Maine if the state approves the measure, which now goes to the full Legislature.

Osman explores all sides of an issue I am writing to express my strong support for the election of Franny Osman to the town of Acton Select Board. I have had the pleasure of working with Franny on a variety of local issues and have always been impressed with her desire to explore all sides of an issue so as to come to sensible and balanced solution to the issue at hand. As a person who believes strongly in the protection of our local open spaces, woodlands and farms, I particularly appreciate F...

Legislative committee votes down bill to penalize drug companies for price gouging The pharmaceutical industry has made it clear that it will sue Maine if the state approves the measure, which now goes to the full Legislature. Share A legislative committee on Thursday voted against a bill to assess hefty fines on generic drug manufacturers that jack up prices, rejecting the proposal after the industry made clear it would sue Maine if it became law. Democrats on the committee were deeply divide...

Anti-Fascism Is Not Simply a Moral Objection — It Is a Practical One Counterprotesters approach Trump supporters, including Proud Boys, during a rally on December 12, 2020, in Olympia, Washington. David Ryder/Getty Images Recent years have been scarred by an incipient fascism, plague and pestilence, and the violence that marked the end of the Trump administration. A renewed cycle of autonomous working-class organizing, Black Lives Matter and Indigenous struggles, and multitudinous anti-fas...

At the start of the year, Colleen Tendall spent days begging businesses to give her special needs students a chance to learn job skills. She wasnt even requesting her students be paid, the Van Meter high school special education teacher said. All she wanted was a place where her students could gain practical work experience for a few hours two days a week. For the last few years, the students in her Special Education Functional Program had been working at their schools concession stand servin...

Gaston County Star Students, Teachers announced Sponsored by  The Gaston Gazette each year, the school district selects an exceptional student from each high school as the school’s Star Student.   Each student then named their respective Star Teacher, who had the greatest influence on the student during their Gaston County Schools education, and wrote an essay about how the teacher motivated and inspired them.  Each student honoree will receive a framed Star Student certificate and ...

Photo by Bruce Rushton Flanked by Vanessa Knox of the Faith Coalition For The Common Good and Nick Dodson of the Sierra Club and Sangamon County Democratic Socialists of America, Susan Allen, a member of the Faith Coalition, tells the press that the sheriffs office shouldnt get an armored vehicle. A coalition of groups ranging from Black Lives Matte...

  Article Contributed by Jake Cudek | Published on Thursday, April 29, 2021 Spring is associated with new beginnings and for the year 2021, the wind of change is being widely embraced. From vaccinations to the shaking off of the long winter, people everywhere are actively looking forward to getting out, getting normal, and for music lovers, getting down. To satisfy the musical desire, one of the main staples of live music throughout Colorado has answered the call to get people back into th...

Sturgis Journal Sturgis might be considered a quiet, small Michigan city, but throughout history, residents have made a splash in the news. A few nearly splashed into one of The Great Lakes, according to Wayne Lusardi, maritime archaeologist at Michigan Department of Natural Resources. Earlier this year, Allen Kasdorf of Sturgis saw a tribute to Tuskegee Airmen presented and created by Lusardi and DNR. In it, Lusardi mentioned the Hapner brothers of Sturgis, balloonists who crashed a hot- air b...

This week is a re-run of an article that ran Jan. 5, 1977. So now Ill update as several changes have occurred since.  In the sketch, you see an addition at the back is now removed. The Dogwood Festival headquarters office has been in several places over the years. For several years, the office was in the old county jail. Now (at least in 2019) it was in the old county courthouse on Main Street.  Helen Van Meter has since passed away. Later Mrs. Stella Howe was the force for the festival a...