“If you’re in a bad situation,” someone once said, “don’t worry, it’ll change. If you’re in a good situation, don’t worry, it’ll change.” That sense of constant change sums up the past year at The Forecaster, where we’ve welcomed several new staffers – William Hall, Will Graff, Marena Blanchard and Dylan Martin – to replace […]
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Windham Weaponry ‘sickened’ by Conn. murders
Windham Weaponry is the rifle company started after Bushmasters Firearms International LLC was sold to a private equity firm in 2006.
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Rep. Tim Scott picked to replace DeMint in Senate
The decision makes Smith the South’s first black Republican senator since Reconstruction and only the fourth black Republican ever in the U.S. Senate.
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Obama offers ‘fiscal cliff’ compromise to Republicans
The president says he will give less cost-of-living increases to Social Security recipients in hopes of striking a deal.
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Out & About: ‘Phyzgig,' ‘Beauty and the Beast’ top choices
As the Christmas-New Year holiday period approaches, most performing artists do what everyone else does: Head home and take a break with the family. There’s a marked slowdown in the performing arts between Christmas and late January. So “Out & About” takes its annual four-week break, too, returning on Jan. 23. Before heading off to […]
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Unsung Hero: Nancy Marshall of Cape Elizabeth, giving lasting gifts
CAPE ELIZABETH — Shortly after Nancy Marshall was diagnosed with stage 3 lung cancer in 1997, her oncologist told her, “There will come a time when you will serve as an example to other people who are struggling with cancer.” His words proved most prophetic. But first a little background on Marshall, who will more […]
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Maine Sports Hall of Fame to induct nine
In addition, five scholar athletes will be honored as recipients of $5,000 scholarships.
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The Universal Notebook: Have yourself a cool Christmas
The Christmas gifts of my childhood in the 1950s are lost memories, but I vividly recall the Christmas gifts of my adolescence in the early 1960s because they were invariably the things every teen and pre-teen needed to be cool. Just how coolness managed to be communicated to the youth of mill-town Westbrook remains a […]
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Superintendent's Notebook: Portland High School students make a difference
Ten students from Portland High School’s Key Club spent a recent afternoon at the Good Shepherd Food Bank. They filled boxes with granola, soup, soy milk and other items to stock the high school’s new food pantry. The first of its kind in Maine, the pantry serves students who otherwise might go hungry. The pantry […]
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Classes resume in Newtown, except Sandy Hook
Funerals were held for two more of the tiny fallen – a 6-year-old boy and a 6-year-old girl – as the long and almost unbearable procession of funerals continues.