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Camden voters undecided about the Article 7 dam removal vote in June have a golden opportunity to learn more this weekend, which will also be a chance for passionately decided voters to rally for their cause and become volunteers.
On Friday, the Megunticook River Keepers (MRK) are holding an informal Free The River Happy Hour from 5 to 7 p.m. in the Community Room on the Public Landing level of the 16 Bay View hotel.
On Sunday, the Save the Dam Falls Committee will hold their second Community Conversation at 2 p.m. in a rented room at the Camden Public Library. Both events are free and open






Approximately one dozen or so Islesboro residents joined millions of U.S. citizens and others around the globe Saturday to express their deep concern about President Trump and his chief advisor Elon Musk’s dictatorial attempt to demolish democracy.
The Islesboro protest was part of the global “Hands Off” rejection of Trump’s authoritarian power grab coordinated by a national group called Indivisible and that supports several local teams in Maine.
Locally organized by Shar Piper and Sally Mitchell, the group walked from the Islesboro Town Office to the Boardman Cottage, past the Post Office


I was introduced to the Holocaust as a middle schooler. As any child would, I had a hard time fathoming the mass murder of so many people. I am not sure I was taught of the slippage of democratic norms, the years of capitulation and fear. I remember asking my mother why no one tried to stop it. She had vague answers, about it being far away, with it being hard to tell what was going on. Needless to say, the question lingered.
I kept that question with me while touring our nation’s Holocaust Memorial Museum in D.C. more than two decades ago. I stood for many minutes in the room dedicated to