FREEPORT — Freeport Community Services will host its annual White Nights fundraiser 5:30 to 10 p.m., Jan. 26, 53 Depot St. Tickets are $50 in advance; $60 at the door. For more information, call 865-3985 or visit www.FCSMaine.org.
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PHIPPSBURG Decades before he moved to his ancestral Phippsburg home, Massachusetts native Bill Perkins came to know Maine by proxy, so to speak. As teenage “cub reporter” for the old Boston Post, Perkins was responsible for writing short bits in “The Observor.” Little, “off-beat” stuff, as he put it. Because the Boston Post circulated mostly […]
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SCHEDULED PUBLIC MEETINGS
Arrowsic CONSERVATION COMMISSION, Monday, 7 p.m., town hall. Bowdoin BOARD OF SELECTMEN, Monday, 6:30 p.m., town office. PLANNING BOARD, Tuesday, 7 p.m., town office. Bowdoinham BOARD OF SELECTMEN, Tuesday, 5:30 p.m., Coombs Municipal Building. BOWDOINHAM SENIOR CENTER, Thursday, 1:15-2:30 p.m., Second Baptist Church. PLANNING BOARD, Thursday, 6 p.m., Coombs Meeting Room. Brunswick BRUNSWICK DOWNTOWN ASSOCIATION, […]
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Southeast digging out from snow
ATLANTA (AP) — Parts of the Southeast were digging out today from a winter storm that dumped snow around the region and played a role in at least one death. In Virginia, the areas hardest hit Thursday and today were in the southwest, where the National Weather Service says 13 inches were reported in Giles […]
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GOP eyes election law changes
BOSTON (AP) — After back-to-back presidential losses, Republicans in key states want to change the rules to make it easier for them to win. From Wisconsin to Pennsylvania, GOP officials who control legislatures in states that supported President Barack Obama are considering changing state laws that give the winner of a state’s popular vote all […]
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Toyota settles in case of two killed in Utah
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Toyota Motor Corp. has settled with family members of two people killed in Utah in a lawsuit that was to go to court next month and serve as a test case for a group of hundreds more that are pending. Toyota reached the agreement in the case brought by the family […]
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Senator finds sponsor for tax proposal
AUGUSTA (AP) — A Republican state senator from Maine who wants to raise taxes on the state’s wealthiest citizens says he’s found a House sponsor for his bill, and as expected it’s a Democrat. Sen. Tom Saviello of Wilton proposes raising the tax on annual incomes of higher than $250,000 from 7.95 percent to 8.5 […]
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Washington County jail employee fired
MACHIAS (AP) — Washington County commissioners have fired a county jail employee as part of a probe into the alleged misuse of funds from an inmate benefit account. WABI-TV reports Sgt. Karina Richardson was let go at a hearing Thursday. According to a report prepared by a lawyer hired by Sheriff Donnie Smith, more than […]
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Flu continues to bug residents of Maine
PORTLAND (AP) — Maine public health officials say the flu continues to spread across the state. According to the latest statistics from the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention released Thursday, there have been 125 flu outbreaks reported so far this season, about four times the normal number. The flu has killed 20 children […]
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Judge delays hearing for ex-prosecutor
AUGUSTA (AP) — A federal judge has agreed to postpone a Feb. 5 court date for James Cameron, Maine’s former top drug prosecutor who fled the state after being convicted of child pornography charges. The Kennebec Journal says U.S. District Judge John Woodcock Jr. filed the order Thursday agreeing to a delay in Cameron’s court […]