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Trojans roll past rival Tigers

BIDDEFORD — A strong first half led the Thornton Academy girls soccer team to a 4-1 victory over Biddeford at Waterhouse Field on Wednesday night. “I’m really impressed with how hard our girls played particularly with the 50-50 balls. We talked a lot about that going into this game, controlling the air and controlling the […]

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Gary Welton: Nature is not our mother

News stories from around the country focus on hurricanes, earthquakes, tsunamis, ice storms, tornadoes, droughts, and other natural disasters. It seems that we live at the mercy of Mother Nature. We do not control our lives; Mother Nature instead controls us.G. K. Chesterton, however, wrote in “Orthodoxy” that, “The main point of Christianity was this: […]

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Andy Young: New supreme court justice causes sorrow and jubilation

It’s official: America has descended into a reality television show. That a nominee to the Supreme Court could utter multiple demonstrable falsehoods to the United States Senate during his coronation confirmation hearings and still go forward is startling. Perhaps equally astounding: that the same nominee, faced with plausible claims of sexual assault against him, could angrily put […]

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Bid reaches $5.25 million for Portland’s Time & Temperature building

With one day remaining in its online auction, the leading bid to purchase the iconic Time & Temperature Building in downtown Portland reached $5.25 million Wednesday evening. The auction, which began Tuesday, is scheduled to run until 1:30 p.m. Thursday, at which point the leading bidder will submit finances for approval to finalize the sale. […]