WINDSOR, England (AP) — The improbable love story between an American actress and a British royal took the best of all possible turns Monday with the arrival of a healthy baby boy. The as-yet-unnamed baby arrived less than a year after Prince Harry wed Meghan Markle in a spectacular televised event on the grounds of […]
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Posted inJournal Tribune
Registration for summer and fall semester courses opens at UMA’s Saco Center
SACO — Registration for both summer and fall semesters is currently open at UMA’s Saco Center and continues until those semesters begin. No payment is due during this pre-registration period. The most popular academic degree programs locally include, business administration, education and teacher certification, justice studies, computer information systems, cybersecurity, mental health and human services […]
Posted inTimes Record, Times Record Opinion
Maine Beacon: Newspaper should be applauding climate activists, not insulting them
On April 27, roughly 75 people took to the streets of Bath to protest the christening ceremony for the USS Lyndon B. Johnson, an $8 billion naval warship. Twenty-five of those activists, including an 88-year-old Nobleboro resident, were arrested for allegedly blocking traffic outside Bath Iron Works. In an editorial last week, the Brunswick Times Record criticized the group for trying […]
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Hollis resident drops claims against Biddeford in ongoing sex abuse lawsuit
BIDDEFORD — A Hollis man has dropped claims he filed against the city of Biddeford and its police chief as part of an ongoing lawsuit alleging he was sexually abused by a former city police officer decades ago. Bertrand Girard alleged in his lawsuit that former Biddeford police officer Stephen Dodd sexually assaulted him from 1977 to […]
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More asylum seekers arrive in Portland from southern border as city debates assistance
PORTLAND — A nonprofit shelter in Texas recently informed city officials that it was buying bus tickets to Portland for some asylum seekers who entered the U.S. at the Mexican border. “I’m so sorry,” Jennifer Long, executive director of La Casa Marianella in Austin, Texas, wrote to a Portland official in an email about the […]
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Advocates push $80 million in public funding for low-income apartments
Affordable housing advocates are backing a measure in the State House to give up to $80 million in tax incentives to double the number of low-income housing units built in Maine over the next four years. The bill would give developers access to refundable tax credits to finance the construction of low-income housing. The bill, […]
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Driver killed in Pittsfield crash on U.S. Route 2
PITTSFIELD — A 90-year-old man was killed Monday afternoon after the car he was driving veered off the road and struck a tree on U.S. Route 2, police said. The man, whose name was not immediately released, was driving a 2014 Cadillac, said Pittsfield Police Chief Pete Bickmore. He was traveling east on Route 2 […]
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Feeling lucky? Three Maine stores named tops in lottery sales
The Maine Lottery on Monday singled out three stores, including two in southern Maine, for being top sellers of lottery tickets in Maine. Those stores paid more than $2.1 million in lottery ticket prize money to their customers, according to a news release issued by the state agency. Hannaford in Biddeford, Broadway Variety in South […]
Posted inLetters, Opinion
Letter to the editor: Now is the time for Green New Deal
Can we elect problem-solvers? Recently a member of the U.S. House of Representatives and a U.S. senator collaborated to put together a non-binding resolution, a first step proposal, which laid out some ideas for solving a problem that they feel urgently needs to be addressed. It is not going to be a law, but it […]
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