2013
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Swords into plowshares as base becomes college
It is often said that a college is much more than buildings and grounds. Faculty and staff are the heart and soul of a college, while students are the nourishing lifeblood and its reason for existing. Alumni and friends — including business and community partners — are integral to any institution of higher learning. The […]
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What would King think of us today?
To the Editor: At a time when the country celebrates the president taking his oath of office and the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., it might be good to recall Dr. King’s actions and message. One of the things he said was, “Peace is not the absence of tension but the presence of […]
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Constitution protects kids using fake guns
To the Editor: Your violent video piece (“Kids shooting kids,” page A1, Jan. 15) is replete with the old and typical responses and actions of ignorant squelchers of constitutionally protected freedoms and creative young people. Neither the Midcoast Regional Redevelopment Authority, the Brunswick police nor the library administration has the constitutional authority to ban these […]
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A. Edward Couch III
TOPSHAM — A. Edward Couch III, 83, of Topsham, Maine, passed away on January 19, 2013. Born in Eagle Mills, New York, he lived in Brooklyn, New York and Deep River, Connecticut, as a boy. It was in Deep River that he revealed his academic prowess and baseball skills, both of which earned him a […]
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Claude C. Brown
BRUNSWICK — Claude C. Brown, age 91, died at Ledgeview Assisted Living, Cumberland Foreside, on Friday, January 19, 2013. He was born February 27, 1921 in Jacksonville, FL the son of Edgar C. and Hester E. Williams Brown. He married Eleanor S. Carver in 1944. Mrs. Brown died July 7, 2011. Mr. Brown was a […]
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Barbara I. Austin
AUGUSTA — Barbara I. Austin, 76, of South Woodard Road, died Thursday, January 17, 2013 at MaineGeneral Medical Center, Augusta. She was born in Hallowell on March 6, 1936, the daughter of Sumner and Clara (Pitcher) Austin. Barbara graduated from Hallowell High School and Gates Business College. She had worked at McLellans Department Store in […]
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Sue E. Dollmatsch
WILLISTON, Vt. — Sue Ellen (Johnson) Dollmatsch, 68, passed away on January 16, 2013 with her family by her side following a long and courageous illness at Fletcher Allen Health Care, in Burlington. Visiting hours will be held on Saturday January 26, 2013 from 2:00 – 5:00 p.m. at A. W. Rich Funeral Home – […]
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Gertrude Palmer
BATH — Gertrude Palmer, age 94, died Saturday, Jan. 19, 2013, at Winship Green Nursing Center. Friends and family can visit 6-8 p.m., Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2013, at Brackett Funeral Home, 29 Federal St., Brunswick. A funeral service will be held at 10 a.m., Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013, at the funeral Home. A full obituary […]
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Obama stands his ground on fiscal debates
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama devoted one word — “deficit” — to the issue that brought Washington to the brink of fiscal crises time and again during his first term. But it was the paragraph that followed in his inaugural address that foreshadowed what’s to come — more hard bargaining and more lastminute deals […]