GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip Three killed in fourth day of cross-border fighting Cross-border fighting between Gaza and Israel, touched off by Israel’s killing of a top militant leader, showed no signs of letting up on its fourth day. Gaza militants fired dozens of rockets at Israeli towns, and Israeli airstrikes killed three Gazans, including a […]
March 2012
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Is job market comeback for real this time?
For reasons ranging from progress on Europe’s debt crisis to a slowly improving housing market to slightly less gridlock in Congress, the economy and the job market appear better able to withstand setbacks than they were in 2011.
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Seizure blamed for crash
TOPSHAM — Maine State Police believe a seizure triggered a crash Saturday along Interstate 295 that left a 26-year-old man pinned in a car stuck on its side between two trees. The crash, reported by another motorist at 11:50 a.m., occurred on I-295 northbound near mile marker 33, according to Maine State Trooper James Leonard. The […]
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Residents vote to add daytime paramedic
HARPSWELL — Harpswell will begin receiving dedicated daytime paramedic coverage this year from Mid Coast Hospital after voters at Saturday’s annual town meeting approved paying for the service. That decision was part of voters’ review of 67 warrant items that resulted in a $4,332,818 budget, a 7 percent increase over last year’s $4,047,497 spending plan. That […]
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Ellsworth resident killed in shooting
LAMOINE ( AP) — State police are attempting to determine who pulled the trigger in a shooting that left one man dead and three others wounded in a small coastal town in Maine. Gunfire erupted outside a home in Lamoine at about 4:30 a.m. Sunday. Maine Department of Public Safety spokesman Steve McCausland said Lawrence […]
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Multer, Rogers re-elected; Ponziani wins
HARPSWELL — Incumbent Selectwoman Elinor Multer successfully defended her seat Saturday against challenger C. Matthew Rich and write-in candidate Richard A. Daniel. In the contest for road commissioner, candidate Ronald Ponziani beat Paul Standridge by a margin of 391 votes. Ponziani received 559 votes and Standridge received 168 votes. Joanne Rogers, an uncontested incumbent representative of […]
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Tuesday DIY tax help offered
BRUNSWICK — The Midcoast Creating Assets, Savings and Hope (CA$H) Coalition and MyFreeTaxes, a program of One Economy, will offer “Do-It-Yourself Free Tax Preparation Nights” from 4:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. every Tuesday through April 10 in Room 117 at Bowdoin College’s McClellan Building, which is on the corner of Union and Station streets. “Anyone […]
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Bowdoin voters nix town office project
BOWDOIN — Voters at Saturday’s annual town meeting approved the $ 966,186 municipal budget proposed by selectmen. The new spending plan represents a 1 percent decrease from the 2011 budget and an approximately $ 7,000 increase in money raised through taxation for a total of $266,304. A total of 97 registered voters attended Saturday’s meeting at […]
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Cars collide, one driver hospitalized
BRUNSWICK — A two-vehicle crash Friday afternoon on Bath Road sent one of the drivers to Mid Coast Hospital. Brunswick police and rescue workers responded just before 4: 30 p. m. Friday to the intersection of Bath Road and Pine Street, where a 2000 Volvo traveling west on Bath Road had just struck a 2007 Chevrolet […]