State exports double in six years, led by sales of potatoes, berries and seafood, especially to Asia.
2015
Posted inNation & World
Efforts to reach body of submerged jet suspended
Divers get partway there but find no visibility on the seafloor and the AirAsia fuselage covered in mud.
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Potluck
Wednesday Free community meal, 5 to 6 p.m., My Place Teen Center, Foster Street entrance, Westbrook. Offered in collaboration by Wayside Food Program, Trinity Lutheran Church and the Center. Chicken pot pie, salad, dessert, 5 to 6:30 p.m., VFW Post 832, 50 Peary Terrace, South Portland. Per person: $7. Thursday Meatloaf luncheon, noon, Westbrook-Warren Congregational […]
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Blood Drives
The following American Red Cross blood drives are open to the public: Monday Noon to 6 p.m., St. Gregory’s Church, 24 North Raymond Road, Gray 1 to 6 p.m., Town Hall, 185 Portland Road, Buxton Tuesday 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Southern Maine Health Care, 25 June St., Sanford 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., LL […]
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Briefs
BIDDEFORD Students give gifts to kids at Southern Maine Health Care Thanks to the generosity of donors and the volunteer efforts of Biddeford Regional Center of Technology’s Student Leadership Council and Biddeford High School’s Interact Club, children at Southern Maine Health Care each received a new toy during the holidays. “It means so much to […]
Posted inMaine, News, Politics
Predictions for Maine’s split Legislature: Compromise or ‘deep partisanship’?
Analysts expect ‘fierce policy debates’ and possibly ‘a rough couple of years.’
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: Gov. LePage right to make sure mill’s death is natural
Verso’s plant in Bucksport shouldn’t be sold unless it’s clear that the move is financially necessary.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Maine Voices: Forum to spotlight crucial need to integrate Portland’s new arrivals
Maine must document and incorporate immigrants as essential elements in economic growth.
Posted inLetters
Letter to the editor: Lack of health care coverage hits women hard
As a registered nurse who believes unquestionably that health care is a human right, I’ve tried unsuccessfully to understand the governor’s reasoning behind denying federally funded Medicaid access to 70,000 Mainers, all of whom make less than $12,000 a year. He has said that he doesn’t want the state to take on any of the […]
Posted inLetters
Letter to the editor: Society needs to find ways to help troubled families
While I was inspired by Merle Steva’s message on the Dec. 20 Religion page (“Reflections: What is the home that calls us at Christmas?”), I could not but think of the dysfunctional families that lack such love and caring. I frequently read in the Press Herald accounts of spouse abuse or child abuse. Such incidents […]