Portland’s Griffin Foley catches a pass behind Deering’s Mason Kaserman during the Bulldogs’ 41-0 win over the Rams Thanksgiving Day. Photo courtesy Rachel Morales. More photos below. While it wasn’t the win it wanted most, Portland’s football team was mighty pleased to settle for the consolation prize of blanking rival Deering Thanksgiving Day at Fitzpatrick […]
November 2016
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‘Citizen of this world’: Portland provides refuge for Iraqi poet
PORTLAND — Arabic teacher Kifah Abdulla is an artist and writer who friends describe as a Renaissance man. But creativity has provided a lot more than pleasure to the newly naturalized U.S. citizen. Abdulla credits his imagination with helping him survive eight years as a prisoner of war in Iran during the Iraq-Iran War. In […]
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Out & About: Choral celebrations of Christmas
The first weekend in December marks the second weekend of the long celebration of Christmas in the performing arts. Three such programs are slated between Friday and Sunday; two of them are big choral concerts with multiple performances. First off will be the Portland Community Chorus. Performing Friday and Saturday in South Portland, the 130-voice […]
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Meeting with Castro was comically ‘surreal,’ Baldacci says
The former Maine governor was leading an agricultural trade mission in 2005 when he met the Cuban leader.
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Editor's Notebook: We're aiming for poetry, not poems
Probably like many of you, I spent about 6 1/2 or seven hours over Thanksgiving weekend not shopping, but binge-watching “Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life.” That’s right. I watched all of the four-episode Netflix revival that picks up a decade after TV land thought it had seen the last of Lorelai, Rory, Luke […]
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Editor's Notebook: We're aiming for poetry, not poems
Probably like many of you, I spent about 6 1/2 or seven hours over Thanksgiving weekend not shopping, but binge-watching “Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life.” That’s right. I watched all of the four-episode Netflix revival that picks up a decade after TV land thought it had seen the last of Lorelai, Rory, Luke […]
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Editor’s Notebook: We’re aiming for poetry, not poems
Probably like many of you, I spent about 6 1/2 or seven hours over Thanksgiving weekend not shopping, but binge-watching “Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life.” That’s right. I watched all of the four-episode Netflix revival that picks up a decade after TV land thought it had seen the last of Lorelai, Rory, Luke […]
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The Universal Notebook: The suburbs creep into the sandpit
For all of the 32 years that we lived in Yarmouth, we enjoyed the fact that our little neighborhood of Capes and ranches bordered a 30-acre wood with a sandpit. This little undeveloped vestige of forest, sand and gravel was a wonderful playground for children and dogs. The idea that 26 expensive houses might one […]
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Capitol Notebook: Looking at Long Creek through a wider lens
Maine’s major juvenile corrections facility in South Portland has been in the spotlight recently after the news broke of a suicide there. In the hours after that horrible tragedy, shock and sadness swept through the Long Creek Youth Correctional Center, and staff reeling from the news worried about the impact on the other young people […]
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Topsham firm joining growing list of employee-owned companies
Morningstar Stone and Tile establishes an ESOP and expects workers to have complete ownership within 10 years.