Tue/24 BLOOD DRIVE AMERICAN RED CROSS DONOR CENTER, noon-7 p.m., 524 Forest Ave., Portland; www.RedCross- Blood.org or 1-800-RED-CROSS. MISCELLANEOUS BRUNSWICK FARMERS’ MARKET, 8 a.m.-2 p.m., Town Mall, www.brunswickfarmersmarket.com. WILDLIFE TALK, 6:30 p.m., “Raptors, Reptiles, and Mammals, Oh My!” Center for Wildlife of Cape Neddick presents introduction to Maine raptors, reptiles, and mammals. Live animals. Topsham […]
September 2013
Dear Abby
DEAR ABBY: I’m a 23- year-old woman who still lives at home. I have been working for the last five years and have saved enough to live comfortably on my own. Unfortunately, my parents have forbidden me to do it because they think I’m being manipulated into it by my boyfriend, that I just want […]
Militants: Hostages alive in Kenya mall
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Islamic militants who staged a deadly attack on a Kenya mall said today hostages are still alive and fighters are “still holding their ground,” as Nairobi’s city morgue braced for the arrival of a large number of bodies of people killed, an official said. The Kenyan Red Cross has confirmed at […]
Bruce David Marston
BRUNSWICK — Bruce David Marston, 89, of Brunswick, passed away on the 21st of September 2013 in Brunswick. He was born in Brunswick on April 17, 1924, to Gladys and Delbert Marston in the Brice Booker home on Potter Street. He attended the Goodwill School in Hinkley, Maine and Brunswick High School. Bruce was a […]
Bloomberg launches European city contest
NEW YORK (AP) — New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is offering European cities millions of dollars to be government groundbreakers, tapping his personal fortune to extend his citiesas civic-laboratories campaign overseas as the end of his own tenure nears. The billionaire businessman turned-politician invited about 600 sizable European cities today to compete for 9 million […]
N.Y. girl gets trapped inside sofa bed, dies
NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City man has been arrested in connection with the death of a 3-year-old girl who got caught inside a sofa bed. Fifty-year-old Mohamed Barry was charged with endangering the welfare of a child. Police say he was supposed to be watching Aissante Diallo and her 10-yearold sister when […]
SKorea rejects Boeing bid
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea today rejected Boeing Co.’s bid to supply 60 fighter jets in the country’s largest-ever weapons purchase even though it was the sole remaining bidder. Boeing had offered its F-15 Silent Eagle, but South Korean critics have said the warplane lacks state-of-the-art stealth capabilities and cannot effectively cope with […]