The Brunswick Planning Board voted unanimously to approve Bowdoin College’s Pickard Field Athletic Complex renovation plan after determining three new turf fields would not contaminate the area with dangerous levels of PFAS, a class of chemicals that has been linked to cancer.
2023
Posted inSports, Uncategorized
NFL playoffs: Right coach can turn around a franchise quickly
Analysis: The Jaguars and Giants combined for seven wins last season and now, they’re two victories away from playing in the Super Bowl.
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Posted inTimes Record Opinion
Barbara S. Held: How Kevin McCarthy is playing out of his psychological league, contrary to popular opinion
Move over, Donald. Kevin McCarthy has now replaced you as political pundits’ favorite object of amateur psychoanalytic musings. After psychologically scrutinizing McCarthy’s every move in his self-debasing, unprincipled concession-laden bid to be House Speaker, they’ve declared McCarthy’s “victory” to be pyrrhic. Pundits emphasize the ungovernability of fractured House Republicans, especially given McCarthy’s cave-to the-Freedom-Caucus weaknesses. […]
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CNN to air Mark Twain Prize for American Humor honoring Adam Sandler
Celebrity guests who will honor Sandler at the ceremony include co-stars Jennifer Aniston, Drew Barrymore, and Steve Buscemi, fellow SNL alums Chris Rock and David Spade and more.
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Just a Little Old: A split-screen shot of America’s political divide
Sept. 11, 2001: Another day, like Dec. 7, 1941, that will live in infamy. Nineteen militants associated with the Islamic extremist group al Qaeda carried out suicide attacks against targets in the United States. Two of the planes were flown into the twin towers at the World Trade Center in NYC, a third plane hit […]
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Australian Open: Brooksby tops No. 2 Ruud; Jabeur out, too
Jenson Brooksby upsets Casper Ruud as eight U.S. men reach the third round – the most in the year’s first Grand Slam tournament since 1996.
Posted inMaine
More than 1,000 Maine sites identified so far for testing of PFAS contamination
The Maine Department of Environmental Protection said in a report to a legislative committee that testing of an increasing number of sites likely will continue beyond a 2025 deadline.
Posted inTimes Record
Bath hires new director of planning and marketing/communications specialist
Bath has started 2023 by hiring two new staff members, Jennifer Curtis, who takes over as director of planning, and Courtney McDonald, the city’s new marketing and communications specialist. Curtis comes to Bath after having served in the same role in Bowdoinham. Curtis earned an undergraduate degree in environmental management from the University of Maryland […]
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Supreme Court says it still hasn’t found who leaked abortion opinion
Ninety-seven employees of the court were formally interviewed; all denied disclosing the opinion but some later admitted they told their spouses.
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Arrest made in Jan. 17 ‘shots fired’ incident in Biddeford
Dawud Abdur-Raheem, 37, also known as David Adams, was taken into custody without incident. He is charged with reckless conduct with a dangerous weapon, a Class C felony.