Applications flow in to the Cornville elementary school and two Maine high schools for the fall.
2013
Posted inLife & Culture
Comedy to draw from Fox’s life
PASADENA, Calif. – On his upcoming NBC comedy, Michael J. Fox will play a newscaster who had quit his job due to Parkinson’s disease but returns to work in the show’s first episode because a new medical regimen has helped him control many of the disease’s symptoms. It mirrors the life of the former “Family […]
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Posted inBusiness
Developing world’s hygiene habits push Unilever ahead of rivals
The firm accelerates the rollout of shampoos and deodorants to Indonesia and China to offset slowing growth in developed markets.
Posted inClose to Home
Births
Several area hospitals no longer provide birth announcements for publication. We will publish birth announcements from parents. Forms and instructions are available here. For more information, please call 791-6300. Central Maine Medical Center Rhiannon Elise Curran-Sanderson, born Dec. 17 to Derek Sanderson and Martha Curran, Westbrook. Grandparents: Ken and Traci Sanderson, Gorham; Joyce Curran, Cabuya, […]
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Briefs
SCARBOROUGH ‘Snowy Day’ for Pleasant Hill Students from Pleasant Hill Primary School recently participated in an Annual Winter Wonderland event, celebrating community service and some family fun. This year’s event, themed, “It’s a Snowy Day,” featured a number of correlating projects in classes, including painting, sculpture and music. Music also was provided by music teacher […]
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Pot Luck
Wednesday Free meal, 5 to 6 p.m., Mission Possible Teen Center, Foster Street entrance, Westbrook. Offered in collaboration by Wayside Food Program, Trinity Lutheran Church and the center. Spaghetti, meatballs, dessert, 5 to 6:30 p.m., VFW Post 832, 50 Peary Terrace, South Portland. Per person: $6. Thursday Community meal, noon, Westbrook-Warren Congregational Church, 810 Main […]
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Donkey delivers a Christmas ‘miracle’
Despite her negative pregnancy test, an abused animal gives birth at a Bridgton shelter.
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Blood Drives
The following American Red Cross blood drives are open to the public: Monday: 1 to 6 p.m., Church of Jesus Christ Latter Day Saints, North Yarmouth Tuesday: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Dunkin Donuts, East Waterboro Noon to 6 p.m., YMCA, Bath Wednesday: Noon to 5 p.m., Dunkin Donuts, Lisbon Falls 1 to 6 p.m., […]
Posted inOpinion
Maine Voices: MaineCare solutions shouldn’t place biggest burden on the most needy
Instead of indiscriminately slashing programs, let’s better manage care for the highest-cost patients.
Posted inLetters, Opinion
Letters to the editor: Gun owners’ rights placed above others’
In a recent letter to the editor (“Preventing another Newtown tragedy,” Dec. 19), Thomas O’Connor of Falmouth asked: “When is Congress going to get serious about preventing these mass murders and stop listening to the anti-gun nuts?” I assume O’Connor prefers that Congress only pays attention to the Institute for Legislative Action, the lobbying arm […]