BRUNSWICK — Grace T. Farjeon, age 92 of Brunswick, died peacefully on Saturday, December 24, 2011 at Horizons Living and Rehabilitation Center. Grace was born in New York on March 30, 1919, the youngest of five children to Harry and Grace Thorne Farjeon. Grace attended Brearly School in New York and graduated with a B.A. […]
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John S. Ackley
BOWDOINHAM — John S. Ackley, died on Monday, December 12, 2011. Family and friends are invited to a memorial service on Saturday, Jan. 7, 2012, from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Bowdoinham Fire Station, 57 Post Road, Bowdoinham. Arrangements are under the care of Kincer Funeral Home, 130 Pleasant St., Richmond, ME 04357. [email protected]
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Harriet Keith Furman Rice
A celebration of life remembrance, acknowledging our loss of Harriet Keith Furman Rice, will be held on January 7, 2011 from 1 – 3 p.m. at Maine Maritime Museum, 243 Washington Street, Bath, ME 04530. www.mainemaritimemuseum.org (207) 443-1316
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Romney’s rivals pile on the pejoratives
MANCHESTER, N.H. Mobilizing against Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney as too timid and too moderate, the rest of the GOP field is exhorting Republicans to do themselves a favor and nominate a more conservative standard-bearer who has a better chance of holding up against President Barack Obama. “The only way Republicans lose is if we […]
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Unemployment rate falls
WASHINGTON (AP) — A burst of hiring in December pushed the unemployment rate to its lowest level in nearly three years, giving the economy a boost at the end of 2011. The Labor Department said today that employers added a net 200,000 jobs last month and the unemployment rate fell to 8.5 percent, the lowest […]
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NASA questions Lovell’s right to sell checklist
MIAMI ( AP) — NASA is questioning whether Apollo 13 commander James Lovell has the right to sell a 70-page checklist from the flight that includes his handwritten calculations crucial in guiding the damaged spacecraft back to Earth. The document was sold by Heritage Auctions in November for more than $388,000, some 15 times its […]
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Damascus explosion kills at least 11
DAMASCUS ( AP) — An explosion ripped through a busy intersection in the Syrian capital today, hitting a police bus and killing at least 11 people and possibly many more in an attack that left pools of blood in the streets and marked the second deadly attack in the capital in as many weeks, Syrian […]
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Auschwitz has record number of visitors
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The memorial site of Auschwitz-Birkenau says it saw more than 1.4 million visitors in 2011, a record high for the former death camp. The figure released today underlines how the death and labor complex that Nazi Germany built in occupied southern Poland during World War II has become one of Europe’s […]
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Dog found alive 4 days after avalanche
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A dog that was feared dead after he was swept away in a weekend avalanche that killed his owner showed up four days later at the Montana motel where his owners had stayed the night before going backcountry skiing. Search and rescue team member Bill Whittle said he was “positive” that […]
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Pope Benedict names 22 new cardinals
VATICAN CITY ( AP) — Pope Benedict XVI named 22 new cardinals today, including prelates in such key posts as New York and Hong Kong and a large number of Italians holding major Vatican positions. Cardinals are the pope’s top advisers, the elite group of churchmen who will eventually elect Benedict’s successor. Of the 22, […]