Loaded with oil, the unmanned freight train turned into a runaway death machine, that exploded into a conflagration that killed nearly 1 percent of the town’s population.
2013
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Maine economy tied to rail line’s fate
Manufacturers depend on the Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway and fear higher costs.
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Washington Notebook: Collins, King differ on use of filibuster
WASHINGTON – Six months after side-stepping a parliamentary meltdown, the U.S. Senate is once again in a “nuclear” standoff. And Maine’s two U.S. senators could find themselves on opposing sides. The issue centers on the filibuster, a parliamentary tactic so revered that it was the climax of a 74-year-old movie (“Mr. Smith Goes to Washington”) […]
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Bill Nemitz: ALS sufferer, husband in health care limbo
Life can’t get much worse for Gail Kennett. She’s in the final stages of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. She’s been a critical-care patient at Maine Medical Center in Portland since February 2012. And her condition? Well, let’s turn to Dr. Stephen Mette, chief of the hospital’s critical care […]
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Take Heart: A Conversation in Poetry
Bethel’s Richard Blanco, who read his poetry at President Obama’s second inauguration last January, will appear at the Strand Theatre in Rockland on July 17. In today’s column he offers a love poem.
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Movie Review: ‘Grown Ups 2’ about like ‘1,’ only far less funny
War, plague, pestilence, famine, tornadoes, drought, head lice, cold corn dogs, the fourth hour of the “Today” show, that Train song where the guy sings about wanting a two-ply hefty bag — all of these things are far, far worse than “Grown Ups 2.” And yet sitting through this deluded, directionless, relentlessly puerile comedy somehow […]
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Society Notebook: Multiple Choice
Down East honors the many exceptional winners of its Best of Maine awards.
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Television: HBO’s overhyped ‘Newsroom’ deserving of another shot
As season two of the HBO series “The Newsroom” gets under way on Sunday, the lawyers have arrived at the headquarters of the fictitious cable news network ACN. Lead attorney Rebecca Halliday (Marcia Gay Harden), who will represent ACN staffers in a wrongful-termination lawsuit, has nothing particularly optimistic to offer the condemned — not that […]
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Movie Review: Del Toro makes monsters cool in ‘Rim’
“Pacific Rim,” the latest jaw-dropper from director Guillermo del Toro (“Pan’s Labyrinth,” “The Devil’s Backbone,” “Hellboy”), contains some of the wildest, giddiest sights of any movie this summer — building-sized robots fighting enormous creatures from beneath the sea to the death, their brawls sometimes demolishing entire cities. This combination of Godzilla-style kaiju (giant monster movies) […]