To the Editor: Let me understand this. The new elementary school has just opened for its second year and is already over capacity (“Options eyed to help Brunswick enrollment woes,” Sept. 24, Page A1)? What happened to planning and including a margin for error? Have we had that many families moving to Brunswick in the […]
September 2013
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Plenty ails Maine jails
To the Editor: What was the Legislature’s incarceration policy when it became fiscally responsible for county jails? Similar to education, the Legislature usurped county control by promising funding, made it law, and then failed in its fiscal commitment. Now they’ve created a committee to make credible their bandage methodology, versus developing a long-term refurbishment program […]
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Russia offers to guard chemical arms facilities
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Russia offered today to provide troops to guard facilities where Syria’s chemical weapons would be destroyed, as U.N. inspectors prepared to continue their probe on the use of such agents in the country’s civil war. Also today, a mortar shell slammed into the Iraqi consulate building in central Damascus, killing one […]
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Henry P. Beltramini
FREDERICKSBURG, VA — Henry Peter Beltramini, 84, of Fredericksburg, VA, formerly of Brunswick, passed away Monday, Sept. 23, 2013, at his home. Mr. Beltramini honorably served in the U.S. Army, retiring as a colonel. He was a chemist for the Department of the Navy and as an administrator at Brigham Women’s Hospital in Boston, Mass. […]
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Bradley William Mallett Sr.
POWNAL — Bradley William Mallett Sr., 66, a resident of Pownal for 17 years and formerly of Lisbon Falls, passed away on Monday, September 23, 2013. He was born in Waterville to Juliette Fortin Mallett and the late William Mallett. He graduated from Lisbon High, 1965, then worked at Pratt & Whitney in Connecticut. In […]
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Donald Allen Marston
AUGUSTA — Donald Allen Marston, 72, of Augusta, Maine, died September 23, 2013, at MaineGeneral Hospital in Augusta. He was born May 17, 1941, in Portland, Maine, the son of Mildred H. Marston and Willis Earl Marston. He is preceded in death by his parents and a niece, Melissa Dunn. He is survived by his […]
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Marcia B. Mead
BRUNSWICK — Marcia B. Mead, age 93, died September 22, 2013, at Parkview Medical Center. She was born in Portland, June 13, 1920, the daughter of Stanley and Ada (Burns) Hoklotubbe. She graduated from Deering High School. Marcia married Curtiss D. Mead on October 6, 1953, and travelled extensively with her husband during his military […]
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Glynrose Friedlander
BRUNSWICK — Glynrose Friedlander, 86, of Brunswick, died Aug. 27, 2013, at Mid Coast Hospital in Brunswick. Arrangements under the care of Direct Cremation of Maine in Belfast.
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Bush a witness at same-sex wedding
KENNEBUNK Former President George H.W. Bush was an official witness at the same-sex wedding of two longtime friends, his spokesman said. Bush and his wife, Barbara Bush, attended the ceremony joining Bonnie Clement and Helen Thorgalsen as private citizens and friends on Saturday, said spokesman Jim McGrath. Thorgalsen posted a photo on her Facebook page […]
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Effort to expand NSA spy capability
WASHINGTON Lawmakers who oversee U.S. intelligence agencies are working to expand the government’s spying powers to allow it to continue electronically monitoring terror suspects who travel to the U.S. if they are already under surveillance overseas by the National Security Agency. The proposal is intended to close what lawmakers describe as a brief surveillance gap […]