In August, fans will get to see the Blue Angels again and Brunswick will be able to showcase its former Navy base to potential tenants.
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Steve Solloway: A lineman that time won’t forget
The phone call inviting Gerry Raymond to Maine took the big man by surprise. So many years have passed. Hadn’t football people back home forgotten who he was? “I tried explaining to my kids I used to be someone,” said Raymond, laughing. The boy from Lewiston is now a 51-year-old furniture store executive living in […]
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Bill Nemitz: A community unites to make ‘Music for Maddie’
We take a break from the never-ending political drama in Augusta for something infinitely more inspiring. Call it, in the truest sense of the word, “community” theater. Our lead character is an always gracious, always smiling woman by the name of Maddie Simpson. For the past 30 years, Maddie and her husband, Tom, have owned […]
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In Vermont, McDonald’s now has real maple syrup
MONTPELIER, Vt. – In maple country of Vermont, consumers know the real thing. So starting Feb. 1, customers at Vermont McDonald’s stores can request 100 percent maple syrup or sugar to be added to the restaurant chain’s new Fruit and Maple Oatmeal to settle complaints that the company improperly labeled the product as maple flavored […]
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UMaine goalie took the initial step, now he’s ready to climb
Shawn Sirman struggled as a freshman goalie at UMaine, but he’s worked hard to earn playing time.
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Feature Obituary: Eleanor Downes, 92, lived a creative and spiritual life
PORTLAND – We all could learn something from Eleanor Downes, a loving homemaker and artist who used her creativity to overcome hardships in life. Mrs. Downes, who died Thursday at age 92, was the wife of the late John Downes Jr. and an active member of Christ Church in Portland. She was remembered by her […]
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The Chad Gurney trial:Closing arguments
PORTLAND – Over the course of Chad Gurney’s two-week murder trial, lawyers for the state and the defense used every tool available in the justice system to get inside the defendant’s mind.
Interviews with police. Journal entries. E-mails. Reports from friends, past girlfriends and family members. Medical records. Evaluations by psychologists and psychiatrists.
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Rare, complex surgery restores voice after 10 years
An 18-hour operation, just the second ever in the U.S., replaces a woman’s voice box and windpipe.
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Photo: Tony and Maria on the West Side
Portland High School students Oliver Hagelin, playing Tony, and Rachel Garneau, playing Maria, rehearse a scene from “West Side Story,” which Portland High drama students will present at 7 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday in the school’s auditorium. The musical is set in 1950s New York City and features music by Leonard Bernstein and […]
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Doctors prepare Giffords for move to Houston rehabilitation center
TUCSON, Ariz. – Gabrielle Giffords on Thursday felt the sunshine on her face for the first time since the shooting, as doctors prepared her to leave behind the Arizona hospital where she dazzled them with her rapid recovery. Her next stop will be a Houston rehab center, where she will face an even more arduous […]