2017
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MLK holiday breakfast examines gap between rich, poor
KENNEBUNK—The First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church will honor the legacy of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Monday, Jan. 16, during its 14th annual MLK Holiday Breakfast. Shortly before he was assassinated, King had started organizing a “Poor People’s Campaign” and it was a multiracial effort—including Americans of African, Asian, European, Latino, and Native […]
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Lucia S. Moore
BIDDEFORD—Lucia S. Moore passed away on Monday, Jan. 2, 2017 at the Monarch Center in Saco at the age of 86. She was born on Oct. 16, 1930 in Biddeford, Maine, the daughter of Arthur and Pepin, and was married to Richard A. Moore for 61 years. She is survived by three daughters, Karen E. […]
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Mildred L. Day School principal to retire in June
ARUNDEL — The principal of the Mildred L. Day School in Arundel, Dr. Kevin Crowley, announced his retirement in a letter to parents on Tuesday. “This has been a very special year at Mildred L. Day,” Crowley said in his letter. “This school community is truly special and I have been very fortunate to have […]
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Common human decency at question
As a non-religious person, an agnostic in truth, I’m finding it difficult to comprehend how 60 million people, the majority of whom call themselves Christians, can justify their voting for a man for president who, as I can see through his deeds and words, has lived a life nearly opposite of what Jesus is said […]
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Netanyahu urges pardon for convicted Israeli soldier
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — An Israeli soldier was convicted of manslaughter on Wednesday in the deadly shooting of a badly wounded Palestinian attacker, capping a nine-month saga that has deeply divided the country. The verdict, which marks an extremely rare case of an Israeli military court convicting a soldier for lethal action taken in […]
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NTSB investigates NYC rail crash; 100 suffer minor injuries
NEW YORK (AP) — A packed Long Island Rail Road rush-hour train crashed at the end of a platform as it pulled into a major Brooklyn transportation hub on Wednesday, hurling passengers onto the floor and slamming them into each other. The front of the slow-moving train hit a bumping block as it pulled into […]
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Developers unveil Starbucks redesign plans
BIDDEFORD — The Biddeford Planning Board reviewed updated plans for a Starbucks coffee shop at the corner of the Five Points intersection at its meeting on Wednesday. Father-son developers Bill and Patrick Donahue, of Five Star Holdings, LLC, submitted plans to construct an 1,800-square-foot Starbucks coffee shop at 352 Alfred St., which sits at the […]
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Buxton honors Mildred Byard with Boston Post Cane
BUXTON — Mildred Byard thought she was going to the Buxton Town Hall on Wednesday night to a quilting event with her daughter. She was surprised and speechless when she discovered under the pretext of quilting that evening, she was taken there to be honored at age 95 as the town’s oldest resident. Buxton Selectman […]