This year's standouts include top scholars and athletes, several musicians, artists and social activists, a few immigrants, a ...

This gap — more of a gulf — endured by the people who labor in the state’s fields and barns, is what stands to be closed by a ...

Instead of public humiliation, Norris should have been applauded for her dedication to helping patients rejected by her peers ...

The proposal to allow state candidates to use Clean Election funding on care of dependents needs to be sharpened up.

Thank you for the the June 1 Maine Sunday Telegram article about Margaret Chase Smith’s legacy: her “Declaration of Conscience.” I’ve read that Sen. Susan Collins looked up to Smith. I’m asking ...

The author of a recent op-ed in these pages is struggling to teach her students about our country’s ideals (Opinion, June 1). The framework of our government is being challenged and, Tracy Fragale ...

I was appalled to read about the death of Baxter, the Maine Department of Public Safety’s “official comfort dog” after he was left in a closed-up vehicle. The news announcement made it sound like the ...

In the pages of this newspaper, I read with dismay of school budgets rejected and of schools closed — budget after budget, school after school. What is this madness, that sweeps our state with the ...

Mental health. Two words that have been brushed aside in the athletic community. Two words with which almost every athlete struggles. Two words that need to be acknowledged in a community that’s ...

Rachel Ohm’s June 1 article, “Legacy of Margaret Chase Smith’s ‘Declaration of Conscience’ speech lives on 75 years later,” offered such an on-point message in today’s political world. Would that ...

The best available antidote to feeling disenfranchised is to vote — particularly on what's happening in your hometown.

I am a fourth-generation Mainer. My parents are from the heavily forested regions of Maine: Rumford and East Millinocket. As a nurse practitioner, I’ve spent decades caring for human beings with ...