It’s amazing how economics can sometimes turn on a dime. Last fall Bath Iron Works was asserting that the future looked mighty dim, maybe even desperate, if the people of Bath denied them yet another multi-million dollar tax break. Job loss was feared, maybe even relocation. Bath’s sole surviving shipyard was fighting for its competitive […]
May 2014
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Thieves dampened festive sale
For many years, the Mid Coast Hospital Auxiliary has hosted a remarkable community-wide event, the Grand and Glorious Yard Sale. It used to be housed in a series of tents, then it moved to the old Bookland store at Cooks Corner. This year it was held at the old Borders store at Merrymeeting Plaza. Hundreds […]
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39 percenter
I’m one of the 39 percent. The report from the Governor Lepage hater says there are 220,000 EBT (electronic benefits transactions) in use — that translates to about 20 percent — 1 in 5 Mainers who are opting to buy Disney tickets, beer & lotto tickets in New Hampshire, Sex-Drugs- Rock & Roll, and you […]
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Pick your poison
Folks ready to fire up their outdoor grill on Memorial Day face a deadly choice of inflicting food poisoning or cancer on family and friends: food poisoning by E. coli and Salmonella bacteria, if they undercook the meat; cancer, if they heat meat to the point of creating cancer causing compounds. Luckily, a bunch of […]
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Chester E. “Gene” Morgan
HARPSWELL — Chester E. “Gene” Morgan, 70, of Orr’s Island, passed away the evening of May 19, 2014. Born in Brunswick, ME on March 16, 1944, he was the son of Chester and Deborah (Johnson) Morgan. Gene was a man with great strength and determination and those qualities got him through many years of illness. […]
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Daniel “Nature Boy” Fritz
RICHMOND — Daniel Fritz, 54, formerly of Auburn, died on Monday, May 19, 2014, at the home of his friends. He was born on Oct. 19, 1959, the son of Theodore and Bertha Fritz. Dan worked at Bath Iron Works in the electrical department. He enjoyed cooking and playing guitar. He was also an artist […]
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Crazy Horse sculptor’s widow dies
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Ruth Ziolkowski, who carried on her late husband’s dream of honoring Native Americans by carving the massive likeness of warrior Crazy Horse into the Black Hills in South Dakota, has died. She was 87. Ziolkowski, a soft-spoken visionary, oversaw the ongoing project until she entered hospice care in April, a […]
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Harding, activist, King aide, dies at 82
DENVER In March of 1967, taking note of anti-war protests at his alma mater, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. sent a telegram care of Vincent Harding to the “men of conscience” at Morehouse commending their courage and calling them his inspiration. Days later in New York, King delivered one of his most stinging criticisms of […]
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Friendly neighbor accused as kidnap-rapist
SANTA ANA, Calif. A woman who says she was abducted by a man a decade ago who forced her to marry him and father her child told KABC-TV that she’s happy and blessed to be back with her family. Police described a decade during which the woman — abused mentally, physically and sexually by her […]
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Murder trial jury to resume deliberations
BANGOR (AP) — A jury in Maine is set to resume deliberations in the case of two men charged in the drug-related killings of three people whose bodies were discovered in a burning car in Bangor in 2012. Jurors on Wednesday deliberated a full day in the trial of Randall Daluz of Brockton, Mass., and […]