BRUNSWICK — First Parish Church, UCC, invites the community to its 2013-14 labyrinth season. Get your bearings in the midst of a hectic fall schedule with a meditative walk on the labyrinth on Tuesday, Sept. 24, from noon to 8 p.m., encourages a release from the church. “Walking the labyrinth helps quiet our busy thoughts […]
September 2013
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Strasburger to speak at Islands Community
HARPSWELL — The Rev. Frank Strasburger will be the guest minister during the 9:30 a.m. service Sunday at Islands Community Church, 2141 Harpswell Islands Road. Guest speakers for the rest of the month are the Revs. Carol and Richard Visser on Sept. 29. The Islands Community Church on Bailey Island is a nondenominational church based […]
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East Wind Gospel Singers at Wiscasset
WISCASSET — The Wiscasset Church of the Nazarene will host the East Wind Gospel Singers this Sunday, Sept. 22, at the 11 a.m. worship service. East Wind has traveled the East Coast of the U.S. and Canada presenting Southern gospel music in concerts. They have received two prestigious awards at the national music competitions in […]
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Hyssons to minister at Nazarene Church
BRUNSWICK — The Hyssongs will present a concert of gospel music at 6 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 29, at the Brunswick Church of the Nazarene, at 94 McKeen St. Dell, Susan and Richard Hyssong travel full-time as the award-winning Hyssongs. Their energetic family ministry combines family vocal harmony, humor and brass instruments (trumpet and trombone) […]
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The failure of Congress to toughen gun laws
After the murder of 20 first graders — and no federal action to curb ready access to firearms, even by the deranged — what’s another dozen victims cut down in cold blood a stone’s throw from the Capitol? That, apparently, is the attitude of Congress, which — despite overwhelming popular support for tightening background checks, […]
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Getting things done in D.C.
“This Town,” a new book about Washington by Mark Leibovich, the chief national correspondent for the New York Times Magazine, is a surprise best seller. But it’s no surprise that the book recounts anew the story of money’s dominant role in our political system. The book reveals the seamy story about the ways that money […]
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Losing the room
WASHINGTON On the most deadly day here since Sept. 11, 2001, with the capital reeling over the sadly familiar scene of a mass shooting by a madman, the chief executive stepped to the microphones and captured the heartbreak. It wasn’t the chief executive of the nation. It was Dr. Janis Orlowski, the chief operating officer […]
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‘Navigating’ the ACA in the Mid-coast
Purchasing an Affordable Care Act-compliant health care plan can be confusing, so Maine has been training groups of people to be “navigators” to help customers examine each of the health care plans available through the exchanges, which is called the “Marketplace” at www.healthcare.gov. In the Mid-coast, the navigators, part of a consortium funded by a […]
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Marion E. Pyne
BATH — Marion E. Pyne, 86, of HillHouse, Bath, Maine, and formerly of Brockton, MA , died Wednesday, September 18, 2013. She was born in Brockton, MA, on December 19, 1926, a daughter of James Francis Sr. and Elizabeth A. (O’Brien) Pyne. She graduated from Brockton High School, University of Rhode Island and Cornell University. […]