GORHAM – A driver of a Troiano Waste Services truck received minor injuries when it rolled over at 4:54 a.m. Tuesday on Sebago Lake Road (Route 237) in Gorham, police said in a report. Lt. Christopher Sanborn of Gorham Police Department identified the driver as Mark Searway, 50, of Scarborough. Police cited driver inattention as […]
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Scarborough trucker rolls over in Gorham, loses chicken parts
GORHAM – A driver of a Troiano Waste Services truck received minor injuries when it rolled over at 4:54 a.m. Tuesday on Sebago Lake Road (Route 237) in Gorham, police said in a report. Lt. Christopher Sanborn of Gorham Police Department identified the driver as Mark Searway, 50, of Scarborough. Police cited driver inattention as […]
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Scarborough trucker rolls over in Gorham, loses chicken parts
GORHAM – A driver of a Troiano Waste Services truck received minor injuries when it rolled over at 4:54 a.m. Tuesday on Sebago Lake Road (Route 237) in Gorham, police said in a report. Lt. Christopher Sanborn of Gorham Police Department identified the driver as Mark Searway, 50, of Scarborough. Police cited driver inattention as […]
Posted inAmerican Journal, Current, Lakes Region Weekly
QUINN'S CORNER – This and that, from here and there
Facts, statistics and such gathered from a variety of sources: The GOP strikes again! Republicans in Pennsylvania passed a voter registration law “to prevent voter impersonation.” It could prevent an estimated 1,600,000 people from voting. Records reveal that the documented cases of voter-impersonation fraud in that fine state are exactly zero. Second thoughts: Since Chief […]
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DOWN THE ROAD A PIECE – A Ward of the state
It’s said you can pick your friends, but you can’t pick your relatives or your unsolicited emails. For example, an email came over the transom here at Storyteller Central the other day from someone from away who said he had been reading a book on “the humor of Abe Lincoln,” and it said somewhere that […]
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ESPECIALLY FOR SENIORS – It really pays to ask
We got a letter last week from a woman who is now saving more than $1,000 a year, the result of an article she read here – and taking the time to make a phone call. She discovered there were programs she qualified for, and she could access them. Sometimes, all it takes is a […]
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POLITICS AND OTHER MISTAKES – One toke over the line
Next session, the Maine Legislature will consider a bill that follows the leads of the states of Washington and Colorado in legalizing marijuana for recreational use. But even before that measure has been drafted, it’s drawing opposition from the allegedly clear-thinking executive director of the state Chiefs of Police Association. “It will get into the […]
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Book Review: Revisionist history of Jackson’s life, death
A new biography offers explanations for the King of Pop’s sometimes controversial choices.
Posted inCurrent, The Forecaster
Book Review: Revisionist history of Jackson’s life, death
A new biography offers explanations for the King of Pop’s sometimes controversial choices.
Posted inCurrent, Southern Forecaster, The Forecaster
Council appoints House to South Portland Board of Education
SOUTH PORTLAND – The South Portland City Council made it official Monday, voting unanimously to appoint Mary House to an at-large seat on the Board of Education. House replaces Jeffrey Selser, who resigned Sept.7 to accept a coaching job at Mahoney Middle School. She will serve until November 2013, when a special election will be […]