Like everyone else, there are times when I am so distracted that I, too, forget to notice all that’s going on around me in the natural world. Life’s daily challenges intrude and often take precedence to the exclusion of everything else, and I find those moments to be even more draining when they cause me […]
May 2014
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Red Storm take advantage of Golden Trojans’ slipups in 5-1 win
SACO — Playing against a Scarborough team that puts bat on ball better than anyone else in the SMAA, the Thornton Academy softball team knew it would have to pack its defense to have any chance of upsetting the defending state champions. For the most part, the Golden Trojans were up to the task. But […]
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Man faces charges of reselling med. marijuana
PORTLAND — The Maine Drug Enforcement Agency arrested a Portland man last week on charges of selling his medical marijuana to another man, who did not have a valid prescription. Danny Mitchell, 48, of Portland, is charged with Class D unlawful trafficking in marijuana following the April 29 incident. At approximately 4 p.m. that day, […]
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Mass. announces strategy to overhaul health site
BOSTON — Massachusetts officials unveiled a strategy on Monday for overhauling the hobbled health insurance website that has dramatically slowed the state’s transition from a first-in-the-nation universal health care program to the requirements of the federal Affordable Care Act. The state planned a “dual-track” approach that calls for purchasing software powering health exchanges in other […]
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Sports Briefs
Phelps enters another competition Michael Phelps will take another step in his comeback at a Grand Prix meet in Charlotte, North Carolina, on May 16. His coach, Bob Bowman, told The Associated Press on Monday night that Phelps has entered the 100-meter butterfly and 200 freestyle at the Charlotte Grand Prix, though Bowman is not […]
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Military judge orders CIA to list ‘black sites’
As first reported by the Miami Herald’s Carol Rosenberg on April 17, during a pretrial hearing of a Guantanamo prisoner previously held at a series of CIA secret prisons, judge Army Col. James Pohl ordered the agency to provide the long-concealed “names of agents, interrogators and medical personnel who worked at the so-called black sites” […]
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Anna Ashley
SPRINGVALE — Anna Louise Ashley, a champion of early childhood education, conservator of the Nasson College legacy and longtime resident of Springvale, died on May 2 at Southern Maine Health Care, after a long illness. She was 76. Mrs. Ashley was a loving mother to five children and 12 grandchildren, all of whom survive her. […]
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Arlene Fitzgerald
OLD ORCHARD BEACH — Arlene “Deni” Fitzgerald passed away on May 3, 2014 in Portland. She was born to Carl and Hazel (Cleaves) Davis on Dec. 18, 1925 in Saco. Arlene graduated first in her class from Old Orchard Beach High School in 1943. She later went on to graduate from Gorham State Teachers College […]
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Nigerian girl describes kidnap, 276 still missing
LAGOS, Nigeria — The girls in the school dorm could hear the sound of gunshots from a nearby town. So when armed men in uniforms burst in and promised to rescue them, at first they were relieved. “Don’t worry, we’re soldiers,” one 16-year-old girl recalls them saying. “Nothing is going to happen to you.” The […]
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Norman Rockwell’s Red Sox classic shown at Fenway
BOSTON (AP) — A Norman Rockwell painting of Boston Red Sox players that is estimated to sell for up to $30 million this month was shown off at Fenway Park Monday with two of the men depicted in the work on hand to reminisce about its creation. The painting, “The Rookie (Red Sox Locker Room),” appeared on the […]