The project qualified for the money because of the excessive shoaling caused by Hurricane Sandy.
2013
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Dispatches
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MOSCOW Bolshoi theater to perform its version of ‘Rite of Spring’ It was, perhaps, the last century’s most scandalous ballet – one modeled after a pagan ritual of human sacrifice and showcasing dancers in ancient Slavic costumes prancing to odd-metered, cacophonous music. On Thursday, Moscow’s Bolshoi theater opens a new production of “The Rite of […]
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MRRA board votes to cancel 2013 air show
BRUNSWICK — Government spending cuts, known as sequestration, have scuttled the 2014 Great State of Maine Air Show.During their regular business meeting Wednesday, Midcoast Regional Redevelopment Authority’s Board of Directors voted unanimously to cancel this summer’s show, which was to feature an appearance by the U.S. Navy Blue Angels Aerobatics Demonstration Team.But drastic governmental spending […]
Posted inTimes Record
Brunswick startups in cash contest
Two local businesses — an apparel maker and a soda bottler — are finalists in a bank-sponsored competition to win $30,000 in investment funds. Green Bee All-Natural Soda, brewed and bottled by Lori and Chris Kinkade in their Fort Andross plant; and Atayne, a sportswear maker owned by Jeremy Litchfield, are two of three finalists […]
Posted inTimes Record
Ringing a bell in Bath
Some 41 years after the Coast Guard removed it from the Fiddler’s Reach tower, the bronze fog bell is getting a homecoming of sorts. Within the next couple of weeks, the Maine Maritime Museum expects to have the USCG fog bell on display. Eventually, the bell will be part of the museum’s Coast Guard exhibit, […]
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Chinese program could be eliminated
Emelia Beattie has taken Chinese language courses in School Administrative District 75 since eighth grade. The Mt. Ararat High School sophomore from Harpswell said she became interested in the culture after her younger sister was adopted from China. But if she had known she wouldn’t be able to take it for four years in high […]
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Chief calls for tougher seat belt enforcement
Robert Williams had seen enough. The chief of the state police and a 30-year veteran had seen enough mangled bodies in car wrecks. Enough distraught and hysterical mothers and fathers. Enough lives that could have been easily saved with the click of a seat belt. “As a trooper, I have knocked on more than one […]
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Board OKs historic home demolition
A new church will go up and an old house will come down. Planning Board members voted unanimously Tuesday to conditionally approve the site plan for a new Unitarian Universalist Church building at Pleasant and Middle streets. The structure will replace a 126-year-old building that partially burned down in June 2011 and was razed shortly […]
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Feds detail crash fatal to Durham pilot
Engine failure may be to blame for the fatal crash of a small plane just 100 yards offshore of Portland Head Light last summer, federal investigators say. Tourists watched from the shore as a helicopter dropped a flotation device to Dr. Louis Hanson on June 24 after his four-seat Stinson S108 splashed down off popular […]