PORTLAND (AP) — An elementary school is providing grief counseling after the death of a third-grade student the day before Thanksgiving. The superintendent of Regional School Unit 63 wrote on the school’s website that Holden School student Isaiah Perry was a “wonderful, friendly child” and said his death was “very untimely and tragic.” The school […]
November 2016
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Backers of monument don’t think Trump will undo Obama’s move
PORTLAND The backers of a new national monument in Maine don’t believe Donald Trump will undo President Barack Obama’s move. Obama this year created the Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument on 87,000 acres donated by Roxanne Quimby, the co- founder of Burt’s Bees. Trump criticized Obama at the time. The leader of a group […]
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Democrats Searching for a Road Back
The shock of the election has started to wear off, and while both parties have remedial work to do, Democrats have the more urgent problem. The party’s weakness is demonstrated most graphically not by the presidential race — for the second time in 16 years, its nominee won the most votes but not the Electoral […]
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Make Our (Costly) Infrastructure Great Again
By his own admission, President elect Donald Trump is a guy who likes to build stuff: A golf course in Scotland. A hotel in Washington D.C. A great, big beautiful wall on the American border with Mexico. But when it comes to his most ambitious building project yet – a badly needed, $1 trillion upgrade […]
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LETTER
Alone, tired, hungry and scared I’m writing to ask the editor to correct a misstatement in Tuesday’s paper. On page A8 column one you printed that our incoming Attorney General, Jeff Sessions “favors limiting the number of refugees coming into the US and turning away children who arrive at the border alone who are attempting […]
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TODAY IN HISTORY
In 1520, Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan reached the Pacific Ocean after passing through the South American strait that now bears his name. In 1861, the Confederate Congress admitted Missouri as the 12th state of the Confederacy after Missouri’s disputed secession from the Union. In 1905, Sinn Fein was founded in Dublin. In 1922, Captain Cyril […]
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Push to boost peer recovery centers concerning
AUGUSTA Supervisors of state recovery centers say they’re worried about the timing and direction of Maine’s plan to establish peer-run recovery centers statewide. The idea is for people who have faced challenges like substance abuse or mental illness to receive training to provide peer support for others. Peer-run centers, seen as a cost-efficient part of […]
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New owners plan to bring closed NH general store back to life
CONCORD, N.H. When it closed earlier this year, there was much mourning over The Brick Store, the New Hampshire landmark that claims to be one of the oldest continuously operating general stores in the country. No more fudge, penny candy, or smoked meats. No more ambiance of a time gone by. But, a few months […]
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Vermont veterans hospital seeks to build house for visiting family
WHITE RIVER JUNCTION, Vt. The Department of Veterans Affairs hospital in White River Junction is working with a private group to provide free lodging for the families of veterans from Vermont and New Hampshire. The hospital is pairing up with the Fisher House Foundation, which if a local fundraising campaign is successful, will build a […]