Dancers from the Maine State Ballet posed for visitors and sketch artists Thursday at the Portland Museum of Art to help the museum celebrate the life and work of Edgar Degas. The museum has opened a new exhibit on the French artist with more than 100 of his drawings, prints and pastels. Degas (1834-1917) is […]
February 2012
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Same-sex marriage vote looms
AUGUSTA — The Maine Secretary of State’s Office on Thursday confirmed that enough signatures have been verified to allow voters in November to decide whether same-sex couples should be allowed to marry in Maine. “After a thorough review, we have determined that 85,216 signatures on the petition are valid,” Secretary of State Charlies Summers said in […]
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‘A New LIfe, A New Normal’
BRUNSWICK — Cool breezy nights and sunny days with temperatures in the 80s. No humidity. No bugs. A beach with tropical waters just a few steps away. Sounds like a dream come true for anyone. But as the entire Hinckley family’s first real vacation together since teen Caroline Hinckley was diagnosed in 2010 with a rare […]
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Primary likely in Freeport
FREEPORT — Freeport Democrats are lining up for a three-way primary race, with eyes on termlimited Rep. David Webster’s District 106 seat. Town Councilor Sara Gideon, former State House staffer Patrick Norton, and social worker Melanie Sachs have all thrown their hats in the ring, and each said Thursday that they plan to stay in the […]
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Depot impact talk to resume
BRUNSWICK — On Monday night, the Brunswick Town Council will revisit a proposal to ask that the Northern New England Passenger Rail Authority (NNEPRA) use state environmental standards in building a train maintenance garage to serve the Amtrak Downeaster’s extension to Brunswick. Neighbors of the planned 60,000- square- foot garage between Union Street and Church Road […]
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Collins tours Bean boot plant
BRUNSWICK — Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, celebrated the emergence of the traditional L.L. Bean hunting boot as a hot fashion item Thursday morning during a tour of the company’s manufacturing facility in Brunswick. The visit wrapped up a busy 24 hours in southern Maine for the senator, who on Wednesday toured a Biddeford mill repurposed as […]
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Search results in pill sales bust
RICHMOND — The Maine Drug Enforcement Agency, aided by local law enforcement agencies, arrested a Richmond man Tuesday for drug trafficking in oxycodone. Roy E. McKinney, director of the MDEA, and James Pease, special agent supervisor of the MDEA’s Mid-Coast Regional Task Force Office, said in a news release that the agency arrested David Beckwith, […]
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Art conservation talk set for Sunday
BATH — Sagadahoc Preservation Inc. (SPI) will present “ Painting Conservation: A Conversation with Nina Roth- Wells” at 4 p.m. Sunday in the Winter Street Center, 880 Washington St. “The talk will introduce the concepts of art conservation, covering both practical and ethical issues, and will include case studies of paintings that Ms. Roth-Wells has […]
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Sagadanoc Superior Court
BATH — The following cases were closed in Sagadahoc County Superior Court from July 1 to Dec. 21, 2011. Justin Carman, 23, of Bath, July 11, 2011, violating condition of release, jail six days; disorderly conduct, offensive words, gestures, $300; domestic violence reckless conduct, dismissed, pleaded to another charge; criminal mischief, dismissed, pleaded to another […]
