2017
Dear Abby
DEAR ABBY: I am single and the mother of a 7-year-old girl. When she was 4, I decided there would be no parade of guys coming in and out of my life, or any at all. I have barely dated, and the few times I have gone out, I never talked about it around her. […]
Robert P. Bolster Jr.
Robert Pond Bolster, Jr., 91, of Georgetown, ME and formerly of Sudbury, MA, passed away Saturday, October 21, 2017. Born in Cambridge, MA, on December 3, 1925, he was the son of Robert Pond and Daphne (Phillips) Bolster. He was raised in Newton Lower Falls, MA, and graduated from Newton High School. Mr. Bolster served […]
Christine F. Jellison
LISBON FALLS — Christine F. Jellison, age 88, died Tuesday October 17, 2017 at Freeport Nursing and Rehab Center. She was born February 21, 1929 in Lisbon Falls, the daughter of Dwight and Hulda Jones Webber. She attended Lisbon schools and married Arthur Royce Jellison in 1951. Mr. Jellison died in 1986. Before retiring, Mrs. […]
Sara Pearl Lowell Corradetti
On October 16, 2017, Sara Pearl “Sally” Lowell Corradetti passed away quietly in Tucson, Arizona. She was born August 9, 1934, to Earl Franklin and Alice Louise Arndt Lowell in the village of Parker Head, Phippsburg, Maine. She was educated in the one-room schoolhouse in Parker Head, graduated from Morse High School (Bath, ME) and […]
Trump coy on what’s coming out on the JFK assassination
WASHINGTON President Donald Trump is playing it coy on what people will see from long-secret JFK assassination-era files. He’s been caught between students of the killing who want every scrap of information out on that crucible of history and intelligence agencies that are said to be counseling restraint. How that plays out should be known […]
Dollars targeting opioids hit hurdles as impatience builds
Nearly a year after Congress approved an extraordinary $1 billion to tackle the opioid crisis, the money that poured into all 50 states is gradually reaching places where it can do some good, but with some setbacks and delays along the way. In some locations, people addicted to opioids are starting to get treatment for […]
House GOP moves to pass budget, start tax debate
WASHINGTON House Republicans are focusing squarely on tax cuts rather than deficit discipline as they look to shoehorn a GOP budget plan through the House. Passage of the $4 trillion budget measure today would pave the way for Republicans controlling Washington to pass a 10- year, $1.5 trillion tax cut measure later this year that’s […]
Iraqi premier dismisses offer to freeze Kurdish vote results
TEHRAN, Iran Iraq’s prime minister today dismissed a proposal from the country’s Kurdish leaders to “freeze” the results of their independence vote last month as Iraqi government forces and Kurdish fighters traded fire near the country’s border with Turkey. Haider al-Abadi’s office released the comments as the prime minister met with Iranian officials in Tehran, […]