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J.P. Devine: Pass the macaroni salad Watching the darkness spread on TV while eating dinner, J.P. Devine ponders the calamities in store for Maine and the world. Share For years, we watched NBC 6:30 news before dinner. Those were the good old days, the George H.W. Bush days, the Barack Obama days. We’d have nuts and cheese, a sip of wine, and then sit down to dinner at seven or eight, like those fashionable people in L.A. who would invite us outliers to dinner because I had just started writing for the Los Angeles Times. Long ago and far away. ....
King: Senators are ‘on the 5-yard line’ in getting infrastructure bill finalized A bipartisan group of senators is working to finish their negotiations this week and have the bill on the floor by Wednesday Author: Pat Callaghan, Gabrielle Mannino (NEWS CENTER Maine) Published: 6:43 PM EDT July 16, 2021 Updated: 6:48 PM EDT July 16, 2021 WASHINGTON, D.C., USA Senators working on a bipartisan infrastructure bill hope to finish their work this weekend and have the bill on the floor next week. Independent Sen. Angus King is one of the senators involved in the talks, and as he puts it, they’re “on the five-yard line.” ....
THERE S an element of optimism that a rail halt may finally arrive at the Halbeath park and ride. Fife Council has been arguing the case for trains stopping at the transport hub since 2013 but a lack of funding has shunted the idea into the sidings. The Fife Circle runs right by the site and last week, during a discussion on multi-million pound transport improvements for Dunfermline, there was a glimmer of light. At the policy and co-ordination committee, service manager John Mitchell told councillors: We ve been asked by Transport Scotland, in terms of the review of the national transport strategy and the associated strategic transport projects review that s ongoing at the moment, to supply the details for that project. ....
“Whether that was making sure that the Starbucks didn t appear on Primrose Hill village to destroy the heart of the local cafes, or whether it was maintaining any of those local stores, the community centre, the childcare provision in the village. She really got people people to think locally.” Born and raised in Kensington, Myra later lived in the USA, Australia and Israel, where she met her future husband. The family moved to Primrose Hill in 1978. Opera, spending time with her grandchildren, and relaxing in the rose gardens of Regent’s Park were among Myra’s favourite hobbies – but she will always be remembered for her lasting impact on Camden’s libraries. ....
On one of the darkest days in NASA history, NEWS CENTER Maine’s Pat Callaghan was there A look back at the saga of the Space Shuttle, forty years after it first blasted into orbit Author: Rob Caldwell Updated: 6:01 PM EDT May 17, 2021 PORTLAND, Maine When NEWS CENTER Maine’s Pat Callaghan traveled to the Kennedy Space Center in January of 1986 to report on the launch of the space shuttle Challenger, he did not pack winter clothes. Who takes a parka and mittens when leaving Maine for Florida? The overnight temperatures at Cape Canaveral were freezing literally below 32 degrees and so was Pat in the days leading up to the launch as he stood in the outdoor press stands, where gusty winds made the cold even more biting. Shivering in a light raincoat, Pat needed warm clothes, so he and photographer Josh Bradford headed to Sears, where the selection was so poor that he ended up buying the only product he could find for his hand ....