Most people don’t like to think about school budgets. Yet providing adequate local funding for education is critical to the success of our schools and can determine how well the educational needs of our children are met. The RSU 1 Board of Directors has adopted a 2014-15 budget that continues to build on a tradition […]
May 2014
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Supporting Tucker for Brunswick
I am proud to endorse Ralph Tucker in his candidacy for the Maine House of Representatives. Ralph has been a friend for 40 years and was always a wise counsel to me during my time in the legislature and while I served as the Attorney General of Maine. Ralph knows Maine and Brunswick and always […]
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Bear baiting
Your editorial of May 20, 2014, has some severe inacurate assumptions and statements. As for bear traps, they have been outlawed for quite some time. To attempt to correct the person who wrote this editorial; a trap and a legal snare are two completely different items. A trap, as she refers to in the editorial, […]
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Victory Gardens
Have you seen the prices of vegetables at the grocery store lately? Is it time to bring back the victory gardens of yesteryear! Four years ago I took half of my lawn and made a garden out of it. I grow enough vegetables to last us all winter … a big savings for us. During […]
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Robert Cecil Eldredge
BRUNSWICK — Robert Cecil Eldredge, 79, of Topsham, died Tuesday, May 20, 2014, at Mid Coast Hospital. He was born in Boise, Idaho, on Nov. 17, 1934, a son of the late Clarence Cecil Eldredge and Ester Ann Stratton. He graduated from Marsh Hill High School in Coos Bay, OR. He was an active member […]
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Leo Wysochansky
Leo Wysochansky, 90, died on April 27, 2014, at Mid Coast Hospital in Brunswick after a period of declining health. He was born in the village of Komarnyky, Ukraine, on July 29, 1923, to Gregori and Maria Wysochansky. In 1942, during the German occupation, Mr. Wysochansky left the Ukraine for Germany where he worked as […]
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Donna S. Therriault
Donna Sue Therriault, 66, wife of Roger R. Therriault, died peacefully on Sunday, May 18, 2014, at Mid Coast Hospital, in the presence of her family and friends, after a courageous twoyear battle with cancer. Donna was born on Nov. 29, 1947, in Bath, Maine, the daughter of Donald I. Wallace and Marilyn (Machoga) Wallace. […]
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Patricia A. Scheuerman
ORR’S ISLAND — Patricia A. Scheuerman, 65, passed away peacefully on May 18, 2014, at Androscoggin Hospice in Auburn. Born Oct. 10, 1948, in Baltimore, MD, she graduated from the University of New England. Pat moved to Maine where she worked in health care as supervisor for Chans in Biddeford and the Public Consulting Group […]
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Inspectors taken for ride
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — An Argentine truck driver upset that inspectors found irregularities with his refrigerated cargo shut two inspectors in the back and took them on a long, cold ride. Sanitary control inspector Valeria Aguirre says during a routine inspection of a refrigerated truck they found that the food inside wasn’t being stored […]
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Getting its second wind
WOOLWICH Local tradition at Day’s Ferry has it that the church’s beloved Wilcox & White reed organ was the first organ east of the Kennebec River in the state of Maine. When new, over 130 years ago, the organ was a gift to the Day’s Ferry Church. It has been in regular use in worship […]