DEAR ABBY: I’m 30 years old and have a close relationship with my mother, but something is bothering me. When I was a little girl, my grandmother gave me a U.S. savings bond for my birthday. It has matured to its full value. My mother refuses to give it to me. She said that my […]
February 2012
Super Bowl ads battle for championship
NEW YORK — The pressure was on. The tension was thick. And then, there were yawns in between. The Super Bowl may have been a nail biter, but the ads were a snooze. Actor Clint Eastwood waxed for two minutes about Detroit and Chrysler. An M&M candy stripped “naked” at a party. And stars from the […]
Patriots’ loss is Super disappointment for fans
BOSTON (AP) — Hundreds of officers who lined the streets of Boston had little to do as fans quietly mourned their team’s Super Bowl loss Sunday night, but 14 people were arrested across the state at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst when police in riot gear dispersed a rambunctious crowd. “We’re really sad right now,” said […]
Ernest F. Cotton
STARKS — Ernest F. Cotton, 77 died January 13, 2012 at Eastern Maine Medical Center with his son and daughter by his side. He was born July 5, 1934 in Topsham the son of George and Bertha Prebble Cotton. He served as Military Police in the United States Army, worked at many shoe companies and […]
Barbara Mann Bauer
BRUNSWICK — Four days after celebrating her 97th birthday, Barbara Mann Bauer of Sunnybrook Village in Brunswick died peacefully in her sleep at Bodwell Rehabilitation Center in Brunswick on January 26, 2012. Babs was born in Santa Barbara, CA on January 22, 1915, the daughter of Barbara Stevens Mann of Santa Barbara and Matthew Darbyshire […]
Carol J. Plourde
TOPSHAM — Carol J. Plourde, died on Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012. Services will be on Tuesday, Feb. 7, at 1 p.m. at Tabernacle Baptist Church in Topsham. [email protected]
Rev. Harold S. Header
MALVERN, Pa. — The Rev. Harold S. Header, 75, passed away Friday, Feb. 3, 2012, at the Neighborhood Hospice in West Chester. Funeral services will be held at the Barry Salem United Methodist Church, Weishample, on Tuesday, Feb. 7, at 11 a.m., with a viewing to be held from 10 to 11 a.m. at the […]