BIDDEFORD — The City Council will soon have to address a question that has hung over downtown Biddeford for a while now: As the city continues to realize its vision of downtown revitalization, where will people park? Mayor Alan Casavant said in an email Monday that businesses moving into the city’s relatively compact downtown area […]
February 2015
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Hardworking vs. lazy
Mr. Pizzagali laments the inequality of income despite the fact that some people are lazy and others are hardworking. Does he really believe that the former group has a right to the earnings of the latter group? A simple yes or no will do. Frank Novotny, Biddeford
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Committee considers metered parking at Sanford Mid-Town Mall
SANFORD — A City Council subcommittee is weighing the pros and cons of recommending that parking meters be installed downtown at the city-owned parking lot at the Mid-Town Mall. To that end, the city is seeking requests for proposals for parking meters and systems, in order to determine costs of such a project, should the […]
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Monday’s Sports Briefs
Investors purchasing PawSox, moving team to Providence PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A group of investors headlined by Red Sox president Larry Lucchino announced Monday they had purchased the Pawtucket Red Sox and would relocate the team to Rhode Island’s capital. Lucchino and several Rhode Island businessmen purchased the Triple-A baseball club for an undisclosed price […]
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Competition can be fierce at bird feeders in winter
I was sitting here the other day at my computer minding my own business when I heard a very loud thumping sound outside my door. I stopped typing for a minute thinking that someone might be out on my porch. But what few visitors I ever get here are usually expected; and other than the […]
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Homeland Security chief: Budget impasse could harm states
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is warning states that the possible shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security would harm the nation’s ability to counter the extremist appeal of the Islamic State group within the U.S. and help communities struggling with an onslaught of winter snowstorms. Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said if Congress fails […]
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Lucien Lehouillier
OLD ORCHARD BEACH — Lucien Lehouillier, 85, formerly of Old Orchard Beach, died peacefully at Southern Maine Health Care in Biddeford surrounded by his loving family on Feb. 22, 2015. He was born May 17, 1929 in St. Marguerite, Quebec, Canada, a son of Alfred and Albina (Provost) Lehouillier, and was educated there. He began […]
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UNE basketball teams ready for postseason
BIDDEFORD — One team is heading into the Commonwealth Coast Conference tournament as the favorite and the other as a huge underdog, but the goal is the same for the University of New England men’s and women’s basketball squads ”“ win. The UNE women are the top seed in the CCC tournament and will open […]
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Robert Daggett
KENNEBUNKPORT — Robert Anthony Daggett, 85, a longtime fisherman in Kennebunkport, died Feb. 19, 2015 in Kennebunkport, following a brief period of failing health. Robert was born May 19, 1929 in Rockland, the son of Kenneth M. and Dorothy Benner Daggett, and attended Kennebunkport schools, when his family moved to the area as a young […]
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States predict inmates’ future crimes with secretive surveys
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — States are trying to reduce prison populations with secretive, new psychological assessments to predict which inmates will commit future crimes and who might be safe to release, despite serious problems and high-profile failures, an Associated Press investigation found. These programs are part of a national, data-driven movement to drive down prison […]