Thu/19 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 FILM, DEATH IN VENICE, 7 p.m., Sills Hall, Smith Auditorium, Bowdoin College. Free. 725-3275. CAMERA CLUB TALK, 7 p.m. Dave Cleaveland speaks at the First Light Camera Club, Topsham Medical Building, 4 Horton Place, Topsham. 729-6607. […]
September 2013
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Dear Abby
DEAR ABBY: In response to “Contemplating Change in Rhode Island” (June 23), who is considering retiring with a friend to a city with a warmer climate, I would offer the same advice we have given our friends. She should know that she’ll need to be proactive in developing a social network in her new location. […]
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Today in History
Today is Thursday, Sept. 19, the 262nd day of 2013. There are 103 days left in the year. On Sept. 19, 1982, the smiley emoticon was invented as Carnegie Mellon University professor Scott E. Fahlman proposed punctuating humorously intended computer messages by employing a colon followed by a hyphen and a parenthesis as a horizontal […]
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Benefit applications rise
WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of people seeking U.S. unemployment benefits rose 15,000 last week to a seasonally adjusted 309,000. But the data was distorted for the second straight week by reporting delays. The Labor Department says the less volatile four-week average fell 7,000 to 314,750, the lowest in nearly six years. Applications plummeted two […]
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Secretary to auction MLK trove
RIDGELAND, Miss. (AP) — The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s personal secretary is selling a collection from the early civil rights movement, including handwritten notes by King and a page from his “I Have a Dream” speech, what the auction house calls an unprecedented historical trove. Maude Ballou worked as King’s secretary from 1955 to […]
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Former boxer Ken Norton dies
LAS VEGAS (AP) — One point on one card, a couple of points on some others. Ken Norton fought the greats, but the decisions he needed to be great never seemed to go his way. He busted Muhammad Ali’s jaw to hand him only his second defeat. But he lost two narrow decisions to Ali […]