Questions haunt a state college scholarship program for people whose schooling was disrupted.
2011
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On Baseball: Anthony Rizzoin Fenway, as a Padre
After he hugged former teammates, he granted a round of interviews in front of the Padres’ dugout. Then major league baseball player Anthony Rizzo was finally free to step onto the Fenway Park grass in foul territory, watching Boston take batting practice.
Rizzo, his arms folded, kept a satisfied grin on his still-boyish face.
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‘Bachelorette’: Bentley is driving Ashleyto distraction this week
If things keep going this way, ABC may have to rename the show “Ashley loves Bentley.”
For the third consecutive episode of ABC’s reality romance “The Bachelorette,” Maine’s Ashley Hebert was haunted by thoughts of a contestant who jilted her.
Bentley (last names aren’t used on the show) had been seen on several episodes . . .
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Health care gets closer to Portland veterans
A new VA clinic in Portland is praised by patients for its convenient location.
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Old Orchard Beach considers public restroom fees
OLD ORCHARD BEACH — Town officials are considering a pay-as-you-go plan for Old Orchard Beach’s three public restrooms. The Town Council is scheduled to vote tonight on a proposed 25- or 50-cent fee to use the loo at facilities on Milliken Street and West Grand Avenue and in Memorial Park. In the past two years, […]
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Maine governor signs $6 billion state budget into law
The budget seeks to address debt in the pension system partly by freezing cost-of-living increases for retirees.
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Two environmental activists defend actions in protest at Kibby Mountain
Two others who also were arrested last July in Chain of Ponds Township take plea deals.
Posted inNation & World
World Dispatches, June 21, 2011
TIMERGARAH, Pakistan Police claim girl, 9, escapes after donning suicide vest Police said Monday that militants kidnapped a girl on her way to school and forced her to wear a suicide bomb vest. The girl and police said she escaped her captors as they directed her to attack a paramilitary checkpoint in northwest Pakistan. Sohana […]
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Feature Obituary: Ramon ‘Kelly’ Farrin, 64, fulfilled dream of being lobsterman
GRAY — Ramon Farrin Jr., a well-known lobsterman who fished out of Yarmouth, died unexpectedly on Sunday. He was 64. Mr. Farrin, known by most people as “Kelly,” learned how to row a boat around the same time he learned to walk. As a boy, he went lobstering with his father off South Bristol, where […]
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Photos: World Refugee Day in Portland
Coming to America as a refugee is about learning new things and starting a new life. It’s also about remembering the past. On Monday, there was a bit of both at a celebration of World Refugee Day. Honoring their homeland, dancers in native dress performed in Monument Square as “passports” were given out to 15 […]