September 2013 – Page 102 – The Portland Press Herald

Topsham elementary school nets national 'Blue Ribbon' award

by Alex Lear September 25, 2013

TOPSHAM — Williams-Cone School is one of 236 public schools in the country, and the only in Maine, to be named a 2013 National Blue Ribbon School. The U.S. Department of Education Blue Ribbon School program honors public and private schools whose students achieve at significantly high levels or have made major progress and closed […]

American Journal

Explorer believes ‘yellow brick road’ leads to Mass. pirate booty

by Tom Minervino September 25, 2013

Barry Clifford believes he’s ‘very, very close’ to finding undiscovered treasure from the wreck of the pirate ship Whydah.

Nation & World, News

Explorer believes ‘yellow brick road’ leads to Mass. pirate booty

by Jay Lindsay and Rodrique Ngowi / The Associated Press September 25, 2013

Barry Clifford believes he’s ‘very, very close’ to finding undiscovered treasure from the wreck of the pirate ship Whydah.

News

Wintry conditions atop Mount Washington

by The Associated Press September 25, 2013

The peak wind gust in the past 24 hours was 84 mph.

Nation & World, News

Al-Shabab: Military’s ‘demolition’ of mall buried 137 hostages

by David Rising and Rodney Muhumuza / The Associated Press September 25, 2013

A government spokesman says the collapse of floors in the mall was caused by a fire set by the terrorists and that the official civilian death toll remains 61.

The Maine Forecast

How long can this weather last?

by David Epstein September 25, 2013

When winter does set in, and it will, we will need to remember September when the weather was nothing short of perfection. Stellar, excellent, wonderful, perfect, ideal, amazing, super, delightful or marvelous. No matter what superlative I use, you get the idea. It’s not easy to blog about the weather when there isn’t much […]

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