SANFORD — Sanford High School and Sanford Regional Technical Center will be hosting its fourth annual College & Career Fair from 9-11 a.m. on Thursday, Nov. 6, at Memorial Gym, located at 678 Main St. More than 75 representatives from area colleges, businesses, the armed services and other agencies will assist students and parents with […]
October 2014
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Elaborate FBI repairman ruse shown in videos
WASHINGTON — Wearing a lapel camera and posing as an Internet repairman, an undercover government agent walked into a luxury villa at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas and recorded everything he saw as part of a major international gambling bust. Defense lawyers said the FBI shut off Internet access to the suspects’ villas and then […]
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Novotny needs to take a breather from letter writing
For heaven’s sake, Frank N., stop and take a breath, and give us a break. Donald E. Harper, Biddeford
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Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Galway Kinnell dies
MONTPELIER, Vt. — Galway Kinnell, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet who opened up American verse in the 1960s and beyond through his forceful, spiritual takes on the outsiders and underside of contemporary life, has died at age 87. Kinnell’s wife, Bobbie Bristol, said he died Tuesday afternoon at their home in Sheffield, Vermont. He had leukemia. […]
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Arguments hold no weight without specifics
I wonder why you would print such a silly, baseless letter as that of Mrs. Welch, with nothing more than name calling and no references whatsoever to any specific differences of opinion or reasons for them. Would anyone reading the letter, without knowledge of previous letters, have a clue as to what she was writing […]
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Session on domestic violence set for Monday
WATERBORO — At 7 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 3, representatives from the York County Sheriff’s Office and Caring Unlimited will lead a community conversation about domestic abuse and violence. The event will take place at the Lakeside Community Church at 1248 Sokokis Trail. The session will feature information about the dynamics of domestic abuse and […]
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Hawks oust Rams in girls soccer quarterfinal
SOUTH BERWICK — Any soccer team that enters as an underdog in the playoffs usually needs the bounces to go its way ”“ a ball off the post instead of into the corner of the net, a shot that just eludes the fingertips of the opposing goalie, a ball that bounces low instead of high, […]
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Several county, state candidates are unopposed
You don’t see many election signs or advertisements urging you to vote for them ”“ though there are a few signs out there. And the candidates, for the most part, don’t seem to be publicly campaigning for votes. There are eight candidates who are running for office unopposed in their bid for election or re-election. […]
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School bets video game scholarship can draw talent
CHICAGO — As a teenager, holed up in his bedroom, illuminated by the glow of his laptop, Youngbin Chung became addicted to video games. Ten-hours-a-day addicted. His grades tanked. His parents fretted. A few years later, the 20-year-old from the San Francisco area leads a team of headset-wearing players into virtual battle in a darkened […]
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Biden campaigns for congressional hopeful Moulton
LYNN, Mass. — Vice President Joe Biden visited the state on Wednesday to rally Democrats in the 6th Congressional District, where political newcomer Seth Moulton is locked in a hotly contested race with Republican Richard Tisei. Biden spoke to about 500 Moulton supporters at a YMCA in Lynn, one of several key cities in the […]