Alna BOARD OF SELECTMEN, Monday, 6:30 p.m., town hall. Arrowsic CONSERVATION COMMISSION, Monday, 7 p.m. town hall. Bath CITY COUNCIL SPECIAL MEETING AND WORKSHOP, Monday, 6 p.m., City Hall. PLANNING BOARD, Tuesday, 6 p.m., City Hall. Bowdoin BOARD OF SELECTMEN, Monday, 6:30 p.m., town office. Bowdoinham COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ADVISORY COMMITTEE, Tuesday, 6:30 p.m., Coombs Municipal […]
2011
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House GOP out to reshape Senate’s payroll tax cut
WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress is edging closer to yet another down-to-the wire showdown as House Republicans shun a bipartisan payroll tax cut bill approved by the Senate and prepare to write a package to please rank-andfile GOP lawmakers clamoring for a more conservative version. The House was returning to work today, two days after the […]
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MAINE BRIEFS
Bank robber flees on bicycle in China CHINA (AP) — Police say a man who robbed a central Maine bank made his getaway on a bicycle before jumping into a pickup truck driven by an accomplice. The Kennebec County Sheriff ’s Department says a man armed with a handgun and wearing a ski mask pulled […]
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CALENDAR
Mon/19 BLOOD DRIVE AMERICAN RED CROSS DONOR CENTER, noon-7 p.m., 524 Forest Ave., Portland; www.RedCross- Blood.org or 1-800-RED-CROSS. MISCELLANEOUS VICTORIAN CHRISTMAS AT DONNELL HOUSE, 3-7 p.m., Maine Maritime Museum, Washington St., Bath; $5, MMM free, 12 and under $3, family $15; 443-1316 or www.MaineMaritimeMuseum.org. GALLERY OPENING, 6:30 p.m., Back Street Bistro, Brunswick; featuring works from […]
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Dear Abby
DEAR ABBY: My boyfriend and I have been living together for nine months. We have decided to host Christmas dinner at our house and invited 20 people — 10 from each of our families. His mother, unfortunately, is having a hard time accepting that her 27-year-old son is growing up. She says she feels “awkward” […]
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Environmental apartheid
“You’ve been negotiating all my life,” Anjali Appadurai told the plenary session of the United Nations’ 17th “Conference of Parties,” or COP 17, the official title of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Durban, South Africa. Appadurai, a student at the ecologically focused College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine, addressed the plenary […]
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MONDAY METER
Good for goodness sake They did it again. Aided by donors big and small, the intrepid Santa Claus Fund volunteers for the 44th consecutive year will make it possible for more than 625 local children to experience joy on Christmas morning. It wasn’t easy in 2011. The volunteers, working under the auspices of the Bath […]
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QUOTE OF THE WEEK
“I was mostly worried he wouldn’t like me. Now, I’m not worried at all. I boss him around already.” — Doris Petre, 84, of Brunswick, on seeing her brother, Richard Watrous, 87, for the first time in 80 years.