The Maine Legislature is, for the second time in three years, considering a bill that would change the state flag to the increasingly popular pine tree and North Star version.
The bill left the State and Local Government committee Feb. 10 with a divided vote, and now goes to the House chamber. A date on when the House will take it up hasn t been set. I think it s unifying, said Rep. Sean Paulhus, D-Bath, the bill s sponsor. I ve seen that flag on houses much more than the official Maine flag.
That was the message, too, from testimony at the committee s public hearing Feb. 3, including from businesses that said it will boost their sales while also focusing on Maine s special brand.
Former Bath councilor turns trash into treasure during pandemic
“When I’m sewing or creating something, it feels good knowing what I’m diverting it away from the landfill,” said Mari Eosco.
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Former Bath City Council Chair Mari Eosco started making whatever she could out of what would otherwise be trash during the COVID-19 pandemic. She has made many tote bags out of old pet food bags.
Photo courtesy of Mari Eosco
BATH When the COVID-19 pandemic reached Maine in March, former Bath City Council Chair Mari Eosco adopted the adage “One man’s trash is another man’s treasure.” She began making whatever she could out of what would otherwise end up in the city’s landfill.
Johnny Rotten with his young fans in Huddersfield
Credit: Huddersfield Examiner
On Christmas Day 1977, the Sex Pistols played their final UK concerts for 19-years. A festive gift for the families of striking firefighters, and for the region’s lone-parent households, the venue for this historic occasion was Ivanhoe’s, a deeply unglamorous club in the West Yorkshire town of Huddersfield. As if this weren’t quite enough, the first of the band’s two sets was performed to an audience of children as young as six.
“A place like Huddersfield was pure hell,” John Lydon [Johnny Rotten], the group’s singer, told the filmmaker Julien Temple in his documentary Never Mind The Baubles. “If you were working class you just felt doomed and trapped and disenfranchised. Those were all the emotions that were running through me and my own culture from London. Having to endure an arsehole government in an arsehole country in an arsehole situation.”