Maine’s experimental education model, proficiency-based learning, has received strong pushback in recent weeks from various communities around the state as the Legislature’s Education and Cultural Affairs Committee considers another year-long delay of the 2012 law. Students and parents in Scarborough and Lewiston have protested the implementation of proficiency based policies that they claim are hurting […]
2018
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Edward Schreiber
TOPSHAM — Reverend Edward Schreiber, 72 of Topsham, passed away Wednesday, February 28, 2018 at his home. Born in Gloucester, MA on November 15, 1945, the son of Rudolph Max and Bertha (Hyytinen) Schreiber. Reverend Schreiber celebrated over 40 years as a Lutheran pastor in Hempstead Long Island, Cambria Heights, Queens and Saugerties, NY. Originally […]
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John R. Shorey
BATH — John Raymond Shorey, 68, of Bath, passed away unexpectedly at his home in North Port, Florida, on Monday, February 26, 2018. Friends are invited to a Celebration of Life on March 10, 2018, at the Maine Maritime Museum in Bath, ME, from 12:30-2:30 p.m. Messages can be left on the Desmond Funeral Home […]
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DEATH NOTICE
FREEPORT — Beatrice F. Arria, age 75, of Old County Road, died on Tuesday, March 6, 2018, at the Hawthorne House. A memorial service will be held on Saturday, March 17 at 11 a.m. at Stetson’s Funeral Home, 12 Federal St., Brunswick.
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For many factory towns, white collar job loss hurts the most
ERIE, Pa. With the abandoned smokestacks off the bay and ramshackle factories along 12th Street, it’s easy to pin the blame for this industrial city’s plight on the loss of manufacturing jobs to China and Mexico. Many, including President Donald Trump, hold the belief that shuttered factories are what primarily ails Erie and other aging […]
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Slain Salvador archbishop to be a saint, pope decrees
VATICAN CITY Pope Francis has cleared the way for Archbishop Oscar Romero to be made a saint, declaring that the churchman murdered by El Salvador’s right-wing death squads for standing up for the poor and oppressed should be a model for today’s church. Francis signed a decree confirming a miracle attributed to Romero’s intercession on […]
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Dear Abby
DEAR ABBY: I have been married for seven months, and my husband wants a second wife, something I do not agree with. He says he likes helping people and has decided he wants a former lover to be a part of our marriage. Unfortunately, she is more than willing to sleep with him. Now he’s […]