PORTLAND (AP) — A campaign that successfully opposed a measure in Portland, Maine, to restrict rent increases cost about $21 for each vote. The Portland Press Herald reports Say No To Rent Control spent over $285,000 on an initiative to reject the measure. The question was defeated by a vote of 13,466 to 7,597. If […]
2017
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LETTERS
A Pleasant Surprise During a hectic day of errands on Dec. 23, my husband and I took a break to have lunch at the Sea Dog. Much to our surprise, when the waitress brought our check, she informed us that a stranger at a table beside us had paid a portion of our tab. “She […]
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QUOTE OF THE DAY
Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. — Gertrude Stein, American author (1874-1946)
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Living to Fight Again is a Victory
Last week, like millions of fellow Star Wars fans, I sat down at my local theater and caught a matinee of The Last Jedi, a movie which (no spoilers) continued to stick with me several days after I left the theater. Maybe it was the fact that the film came out so close to the […]
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Today’s Highlight in History
On Dec. 27, 1927, the musical play “Show Boat,” with music by Jerome Kern and libretto by Oscar Hammerstein II, opened at the Ziegfeld Theater in New York, beginning a run of 572 performances.
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Is the Current Special Counsel Investigation Comparable to Watergate?
While the Brian Ross’ of the news media are breathlessly issuing “bombshell” announcements devoid of truth regarding the Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation momentary findings, there is a steady undercurrent attempting to compare the Watergate era to this Trump obsessed investigation. The mindset seems to be Watergate brought down Nixon, we can do Trump in […]
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Timothy S. McManus
Topsham — Timmy McManus, 59, passed away December 19, 2017. Born in Vermont the son of Doris and Nate Davis. He grew up in Freeport/Pownal area. He loved spending time with his family and wonderful friends. He loved being on the ocean lobstering, loved fishing, playing horseshoes, pool, and a good card game with close […]
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Marguerite Marie Sullivan
Marguerite Marie (Ohnemus) Sullivan, age 90, passed away at Bartholomew House, an assisted living facility in Bethesda, Maryland, on Dec. 22, 2017. Marg was born and raised in Waltham, Mass., graduated from Waltham High School in 1945 and moved to Brunswick, Maine in 1967. She and her husband, Edmund C. Sullivan, raised two sons in […]
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Raleigh Thomas Blanchard
Freeport Maine — Captain Raleigh Thomas Blanchard III (Tom), 59, of The Woodlands, Texas and Freeport, Maine, passed away on Friday December 22, 2017, after a 30-year battle with Lymphoma. Tom was born in Pocatello, Idaho on November 16, 1958 to Bennie (Taylor) Blanchard and Raleigh T. Blanchard Jr. He spent the majority of his […]