HARPSWELL — Phillip Henry Bibber, 78 years old, of Harpswell, died January 26, 2013 at Mid Coast Hospital, Brunswick, Maine after a short illness. He was born in Brunswick, Maine on April 8, 1934 to Linwood and Ruth Bibber and attended Harpswell schools until he enlisted in the military at age seventeen. Phillip very proudly […]
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Robert E. Pollard
BRUNSWICK — Robert E. Pollard, age 75, of Long Street, passed away Sunday, Jan. 27, 2013, at his home. Services will be held in the spring. Arrangements by Stetson’s Funeral Home, 12 Federal St., Brunswick.
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Alice M. Bernier
Alice M. Bernier, 94, of North Carolina, died Sunday, Jan. 27, 2013. Visitation will be held on Thursday at The Fortin Funeral Home in Lewiston from 6 to 8 p.m. Funeral services will celebrated at the funeral home on Friday at 11 a.m., followed by committal services at St. Peter’s Cemetery in Lewiston.
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Storms rake South
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A large storm system packing high winds, rain and some possible twisters tore across several states in the South and central U.S. today, blacking out power to thousands, downing trees and damaging homes. One death was reported when a large tree blew down on a shed in Nashville, Tenn., where a […]
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Actor Jim Nabors marries partner
HONOLULU (AP) — The actor best known for playing the TV character Gomer Pyle in the 1960s has married his male partner of 38 years. Hawaii News Now reports Jim Nabors and his partner, Stan Cadwallader, traveled from their Honolulu home to Seattle to be married Jan. 15. Gay marriage became legal in Washington last […]
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State must reject bid to ‘save’ Parkview
Parkview Adventist Medical Center has a problem. Several, actually. Its average occupancy rate — 18 percent — is among the lowest in the nation and far lower than Mid Coast Hospital at 59 percent. Parkview lost $1 million on an operating basis in 2011 — $10 million over the course of the past five years. […]
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Violence is violence, firearm or no firearm
To the Editor: Why is it that whenever our society hears of a violent firearms crime such as a theater or school shooting or a football player shooting his girlfriend, the call goes out for more gun control laws? Laws do not govern man. Man governs himself when he chooses to submit to the legal […]
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Now let’s regulate ‘hands, feet, fists’
To the Editor: The Childrens Defense Fund wants you to believe that we need to get rid of guns to protect children. Which children? When you open the FBI web page for murders by age, it gets real interesting. For children up to age 4, the majority of murders is caused by “hands, feet or […]
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Socked with state costs, towns, cities in shock
A good percentage of Gov. Paul LePage’s budget fix would be borne by the towns, as revenue sharing funds would be canceled for the two years of the proposed budget. Revenue sharing is the amount of income tax and sales tax that is shared with municipalities. Every town gets a portion of these taxes, based […]