SANFORD — Amanda “Marlene” Burket, 97, of Sanford, passed away on Monday, April 30, 2019, at her residence. She was born in Sanford to Onesime and Maria (Marceau) Perrault on Dec. 31, 1921. She met and married Fred Burket in New York City where Amanda was working as a nanny and Fred was a Sergeant […]
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Biddeford High School honor roll
BIDDEFORD — Administrators at Biddeford High School have announced the top academic performers achieving distinction on the school’s honor roll for the third quarter of the 2018-2019 school year. SENIORS High Honors Gracie Binette, Hannah Bisson, Andrea Carpenter, Carter Edgerton, Katrina Gilpatric, Alyssa Landry, Grace Laverriere, Patricia Martin, Karla Mendoza Yanes, Chantel Perreault, Jared Pierce, […]
Letter to the editor: Vote out Russian internet intruders, vote in cyber defenders
The Mueller report details the ways in which Moscow’s meddling remains a threat to the United States.
The MaineWire: Protect free speech on college campuses
I have sponsored LD 665, “An Act to Enact the Campus Free Expression Act” this session to codify into state law protections of our natural right to free speech for all current and future students on public college and university campuses in Maine. Natural rights are those most basic rights which are innate to humankind and […]
Beverly Harriman
HOLLIS/LIMINGTON — Beverly Abbott Harriman, age 85, passed away on April 28, 2019 at Southridge Rehab and Living Home in Biddeford. She was born on Jan. 25, 1934, a daughter of Sherman and Ernestine Grant Abbott. Beverly was born in the Grant Family Home in Goodwins Mills, Maine. She graduated from Kennebunk High School, Class of […]
Pingree, Golden vow to back Planned Parenthood’s efforts to fight ‘gag rule’
Planned Parenthood helped Emily Ambrose when she needed family planning services as a college student in 2010, and she would hate to see cuts in funding for the clinics, as the Trump administration is proposing to do with its controversial “gag rule.” The rule is designed to restrict what can be said to patients about […]
Hugs, tears mark taping of final ‘Big Bang Theory’ episode
BURBANK, Calif. (AP) — Hugs and tears punctuated the final taping of “The Big Bang Theory,” a lovefest for its stars, crew and audience alike. There were plenty of punchlines as well, as the true-to-form hit comedy about scientists and those who love them wrapped the two-part, hour-long finale that will air in mid-May on […]
James F. Smith
KENNEBUNK — James Francis Smith, 79, of Kennebunk, passed away on April 27, 2019. He was born in York, Maine on Aug. 18, 1939 to Francis Clay Smith and Beulah (Welch) Smith and graduated from York High School. He married Jo-Anne Talpey and worked as a master mechanic after serving in the U.S. Army. He was […]
Robert Koehler: Putting our better angels to work
Nationalists — white or otherwise — need “invasions” on a regular basis in order to stay revved up and equal to the cause. Thus: “We are experiencing an invasion on a level never seen before in history,” the New Zealand killer (whose name I will not mention, honoring the precedent set by the country’s prime […]
Letter to the editor: Intertidal-land legislation amounts to state property grab
Property owners on the Maine coastal waterfront own the intertidal land, or the land between the mean high and low tides. A bill, L.D. 1388, is being introduced to take this ownership away via an unconstitutional land grab by the state. Per the Maine Constitution: “Private property shall not be taken for public uses without […]
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