The Texas cheerleaders wanted to display banners with Bible verses at high school football games.
May 2014
Posted inReligion and Values
Reflections: When comforting the suffering, let your actions speak
Listening can be more soothing than words.
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Posted inReligion and Values
Religion Calendar
SATURDAY Free eWaste Day, 8 a.m. to noon, accepted items include televisions, computers and parts from other electronics. Proceeds will aid Threads of Hope thrift stores. Held at Holy Family Church, 66 North Ave., Sanford. An Evening With Jonas Woods, 7 p.m., concert with guest Gene Richardson. First E Free Church, 355 Bridgton Road, Westbrook. […]
Posted inOpinion
Maine Voices: Blocking tar sands oil is a way to help the environment and our health
The prevalence of chronic diseases and neurological problems shows a need to protect air, water and land.
Posted inOpinion
Mike Tipping: Despite Gov. LePage’s best intentions, new state budget a progressive marvel
It’s a better deal for the average Mainer than any budget since the recession began.
Posted inOpinion
Steve Robinson: Michaud’s support for Obamacare certain to haunt his bid for governor
The law is anticipated to deliver a steady stream of bad news for Democrats for the foreseeable future.
Posted inJournal Tribune
Arundel to consider slight budget increase
ARUNDEL — The town has publicly released preliminary budget figures that foreshadow what citizens will be considering at an open Town Meeting-style vote on Wednesday, June 11. In all, voters will consider nearly $3 million in expenditures, a slight increase over the current fiscal year, and $1.6 million in revenues ”“ again, a small increase […]
Posted inJournal Tribune, Obituaries
Emile A. Lehouillier
BIDDEFORD — Emile A. “Ben” Lehouillier, 89, of Biddeford, died Thursday, May 8, 2014 at the Monarch Center in Saco. He was born in Biddeford on Feb. 22, 1925, to Edmond and Roseanna (Gagne) Lehouillier. Emile had served in the U.S. Army during World War II. He then married Laurette Boilard in Biddeford on Sept. […]
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Cutler offers voters a rare political deal
In the 1972 presidential election, President Richard Nixon drubbed Sen. George McGovern, but the ensuing Watergate scandal cast the Nixon campaign in the worst possible light. A post-election national survey asked voters which candidate they had supported. In several states where McGovern had lost, the poll found a majority saying they had voted for him. […]
Posted inJournal Tribune
Scientists continue working to ID victims from 9/11
NEW YORK — Thousands of vacuum-sealed plastic pouches filled with bits of bone rest in a Manhattan laboratory. These are the last unidentified fragments of the people who died in the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. On Saturday, the 7,930 pouches are to be moved in a solemn procession from the city medical […]