SCARBOROUGH – If you’re at a store or restaurant this week, and you find a customer paying with a wad of $2 bills, there’s a good chance they may have been stolen. On Friday, 300 $2 bills were taken from a home on Maple Avenue in Scarborough, along with jewelry and an extensive coin collection. […]
2011
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South Portland police log – 12/15
Arrests Saturday, Nov. 26 Sarah E. Moin, 23, of South Portland, on Veterans Memorial Bridge at 2:09 a.m., on a charge of operating a motor vehicle while under the influence. Sunday, Nov. 27 Jared Palmiter, 30, on Western Avenue at 6:14 p.m., on charges of operating a motor vehicle while under the influence and unlawful […]
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People & Business
Awards Chelsea Locke of Upscale Real Estate Brokerage Group in Portland was recently awarded the REALTOR spirit award. The award is given annually to an active, enthusiastic, and supportive member of the Portland Board of REALTORS who exudes great leadership, and displays a positive attitude toward the REALTOR organization. The Consumer Electronics Association recently announced […]
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Some in Freeport find little amusement in anonymous parody; AG's office calls Crow's Nest 'offensive,' but legal
FREEPORT — An anonymous publication called the Crow’s Nest has resurfaced, upsetting some residents and business owners, and prompting town officials to investigate whether they have the right to prevent its distribution. According to several residents, the publication has been distributed periodically in town for about 25 years. It parodies town business, politics and public […]
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Juliana L’Heureux: One family’s St. John Valley heritage scrapbook collection for archives
Marcella Belanger Violette left a legacy of love for her French Acadian culture by creating scrapbooks about her active family’s life in Maine’s St. John Valley. “Every January, my mother assembled articles, pictures and information she collected from newspapers and other periodicals the previous year, to create a scrapbook. It was an annual tradition,” says […]
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Juliana L’Heureux: Museum programs adding to Lewiston’s Franco-American Heritage Center
A new exhibit about the Canadian religious order that helped new Franco-American immigrants get settled in Maine in the early 20th century will be unveiled this spring at the Franco-American Heritage Center in Lewiston. The exhibit – “Elles Sont Venues, Elles Ont Servi” (They Came, They Served) – will have a particular focus on […]
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Charlotte Berry’s holly, jolly Christmas
BRUNSWICK Charlotte Berry is a people person. She laughs. She laughs a lot. Nearly all the time, in fact. She sells Christmas trees and wreaths in the Brooks Feed and Farm parking lot on Union Street in Brunswick. She’s been doing it for years. Here’s her take on the job: This is not my first year […]
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Black widows found at BIW
BATH A shipment of equipment from the West Coast to Bath Iron Works contained something a little unexpected recently: about two dozen black widow spiders. BIW spokesman Jim DeMartini said the spiders were eradicated by a professional pest service and that none have been seen in the past week or so. The spiders arrived in […]
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Wiscasset voters OK fireworks permits
WISCASSET In a special election Tuesday, Wiscasset voters approved a fireworks ordinance allowing the use and sale of consumer fireworks by a tally of 78 to 46. Now, Wiscasset businesses along Route 1 zoned for commercial and rural uses — and outside the town center — will be able to apply for state and local […]
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Inside jobs: Employees’ theft costs towns
Last summer, a former deputy clerk and treasurer of the town of Newburgh was sent to jail after pleading guilty to taking the town’s money, nearly $200,000 of it. Last spring, the Pleasant Point police chief pleaded guilty to taking $33,000 from the Passamaquoddy Tribe. Last year, the former Frenchboro treasurer pleaded guilty to a […]