The Mid-Coast Audubon Society’s midwinter birdseed sale helps homeowners enjoy the company of birds by attracting them with birdfeeders. Proceeds help the chapter with its nesting box program and provide many free educational programs the group hosts throughout the year. Prices are sunflower meaties, $24 for 25 pounds, $41 for 50 pounds; black oil sunflower […]
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Winter garden class makes winter green
BRUNSWICK — The Brunswick-Topsham Land Trust is offering a series of six workshops on vegetable gardening this winter. The series is appropriate for gardeners of all levels including beginning and novice. The workshops will focus on organic gardening methods and will provide information about topics such as choosing plant varieties, starting seedlings, timing of planting, […]
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Musicians to compete for state exposure
Young & Free Maine, a program through Maine’s credit unions, is asking to hear from Maine musicians ages 18-25 through the Sound Off Music Competition. The contest will be open through Jan. 28 to individuals, groups or artists. The first competition, held last winter, attracted entries from more than 60 musicians and bands from across […]
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Biden to meet with gun-safety, victims groups
WASHINGTON (AP) — Seeking to spur fresh action on gun legislation, Vice President Joe Biden is meeting at the White House with victims groups and gun-safety organizations. Today’s meeting is to be part of a series of gatherings Biden is conducting this week at the White House, aimed at building consensus around proposals to curb […]
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London’s The Tube marks 150 years in operation
LONDON (AP) — Busy, congested, stressful. This is how the world’s first subway system was depicted by London newspapers in 1863. It’s a situation that would be familiar to nail-biting passengers of the present as the Tube turned 150 years old today. “The constant cry, as the trains arrived, of ‘no room,’ appeared to have […]
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U.S. may leave no troops in Afghanistan beyond ’14
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration says it might leave no troops in Afghanistan after December 2014, an option that defies the Pentagon’s view that thousands of troops may be needed to contain al-Qaida and to strengthen Afghan forces. “We wouldn’t rule out any option,” including zero troops, Ben Rhodes, a White House deputy national […]
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$260K a day divorce settlement defended
ROME (AP) — Milan court officials have defended the impartiality of their judges after ex-Premier Silvio Berlusconi blamed “feminist, communist” magistrates for a $260,000 a day divorce settlement. Berlusconi made the accusation in an interview Tuesday with the La7 private television network and said he was appealing the settlement with his second ex-wife, Veronica Lario.
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Giant squid captured on video in Pacific
TOKYO (AP) — After years of searching, scientists and broadcasters say they have captured video images of a giant squid in its natural habitat deep in the ocean for the first time. The nine-foot invertebrate was filmed from a manned submersible during one of 100 dives in the Pacific last summer in a joint expedition […]
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Iraq shuts border with Jordan, citing security
BAGHDAD (AP) — An Iraqi official says authorities have shut the country’s only border crossing with Jordan over security concerns, cutting a key route through a part of the country that has been the center of anti-government protests. The prime minister’s spokesman, Ali al-Moussawi, did not specify the nature of the security fears today, and […]
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Woman pleads guilty to beating little girl
PARIS (AP) — A woman has pleaded guilty to beating a 5-year-old girl with her hands and a hairbrush so severely that she left bruises on the girl’s face and back. Tabitha Whalen received a three-year deferred disposition in exchange for her plea Tuesday in Oxford County Superior Court. The Sun Journal reports that if […]