Every April when the weather in Maine warms up, I’m reminded of the fellow from Bangor who got arrested in our town one spring morning and later blamed his detention on the warm weather. Law enforcement people often say that weather can affect the crime rate, but in this case the weather also affected the […]
2015
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Down the road a piece: Wrong color, wrong way
Every April when the weather in Maine warms up, I’m reminded of the fellow from Bangor who got arrested in our town one spring morning and later blamed his detention on the warm weather. Law enforcement people often say that weather can affect the crime rate, but in this case the weather also affected the […]
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Politics And Other Mistakes: Welfare music
What Republican Gov. Paul LePage would really like to do is dispose of the entire Maine Department of Health and Human Services. For a fiscal conservative like LePage, that seems reasonable. After all, DHHS spends more money than all but one other state department (education), and it wastes more money than any other state department […]
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Letters
Quality of education Hooray! A first important step in reducing the student exodus from RSU 5 is admitting it exists! Throughout the withdrawal campaign, the pro-RSU contingent and administration both denied there was an exodus. Unfortunately, the numbers reported in last month’s “State of our Schools” report were inaccurate, but the reality is that about […]
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Letters
Quality of education Hooray! A first important step in reducing the student exodus from RSU 5 is admitting it exists! Throughout the withdrawal campaign, the pro-RSU contingent and administration both denied there was an exodus. Unfortunately, the numbers reported in last month’s “State of our Schools” report were inaccurate, but the reality is that about […]
Posted inNorthern Forecaster
Durham fire chief sticks to resignation plans
By Larry Grard [email protected] Offered a 2 percent raise in writing late last week, Durham Fire Chief William St. Michel said Monday he is leaving the position once he gets the department’s affairs “in order.” St. Michel said he will attend an April 20 meeting of the Board of Selectmen, as the board requested. But […]
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Apartment-dwellers should expect rents to rise in 2015
The reasons? More demand, rising home prices that have renters staying put and more young people finding jobs.
Posted inNorthern Forecaster, Portland Forecaster, Southern Forecaster, The Forecaster
TIP volunteers: Greater Portland's 'first responders in an emotional sense'
PORTLAND — When accidents happen, the first responders are often police officers, paramedics or firefighters there to help the casualties. But a growing number of second responders are volunteers, there to provide a different service to those left standing on the sidelines. The Trauma Intervention Program, a program of Maine Behavioral Health, is an organization […]
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Faces & Places
The performance team of Fusion Dance Academy in Freeport recently won several awards at the Dance Xplostion regional competition in Andover, Mass. Winners were, from left, front, Meredith and Brooke Brier; top, Amanda Vadnais, Zoe Konstantino, Sophie Calderwood, Alissa Hutchins, Isabel Konstantino and Marina MacKinnon. Courtesy photoSuzanne Duplissis, manager of the Hedgehog Mountain Road transfer […]
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Faces & Places
The performance team of Fusion Dance Academy in Freeport recently won several awards at the Dance Xplostion regional competition in Andover, Mass. Winners were, from left, front, Meredith and Brooke Brier; top, Amanda Vadnais, Zoe Konstantino, Sophie Calderwood, Alissa Hutchins, Isabel Konstantino and Marina MacKinnon. Courtesy photoSuzanne Duplissis, manager of the Hedgehog Mountain Road transfer […]