In their zeal to mollify the leftist progressive wing of their party, President Biden and the Democratic leadership in Congress have seriously jeopardized what was intended to be the Administration’s signature accomplishment – a $4 trillion infrastructure program, the largest national public works project since the New Deal. Deep divisions between progressives, to whom bipartisanship […]
2021
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Blueberry Festival is back, live and in person
Savor the flavor of summer at the 45th annual Blueberry Festival and Craft Fair. The festival is scheduled for 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday July 24 at First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church in Kennebunk. Kennebunk’s oldest continuous fair, the Blueberry Festival is back live and in person after a COVID-19 year of Zooming on-line. […]
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Guest Column – Our backyard wrental – Part II
I had a life. I had interests and passions and purpose. I had responsibilities. I had dreams. Then a pair of wrens (Harold and Pauline) took up residence in our backyard and my normal life suddenly came to an end. I became a voyeur. A Peeping Tom. Not unlike the neighbor-obsessed Jimmy Stewart character in […]
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Topsham teen pursues career as hip-hop music producer
Addison Rineer of Topsham estimated he’s made about 2,000 pieces of hip-hop music using his laptop, some of which has landed in the hands of some of the music industry’s biggest rap artists including 2 Chainz and Blocboy JB.
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Obituary: Carmella Ida (Amoroso) Clement
WOODSTOCK, Ga. – Carmella Ida (Amoroso) Clement,71, of Woodstock, Ga., passed away Sunday, July 4, 2021.
Ms. Clement was born on …
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Obituary: Ruth Mary Dooley
WELLS – Ruth Mary Dooley, 83, of Wells, died Friday evening, July 2, 2021, at her home in Wells following a …
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Obituary: (Kenneth) Allen Larrabee
BRUNSWICK – Born July 17, 1942, in Homestead, Pa., (Kenneth) Allen Larrabee spent his early childhood there enjoying friendships which became …
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Obituary: Carol A. Hagen
GORHAM – Carol A. Hagen, 79, passed away peacefully on July 4, 2021 with her loving family by her side. She …
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Obituary: Agnes Ann Walsh
SCARBOROUGH – Agnes Ann Walsh, 100, passed away at her residence at Piper Shores in Scarborough on June 30, 2021. She …
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Obituary: Elizabeth Ann Farley
PORTLAND – Elizabeth Ann Farley, 89, died peacefully on July 3, 2021 at Mercy Hospital after a brief illness.
Ann was born …