(Editor’s note: Looking Back is a weekly column including news items reported 10 years ago in The Current, which celebrated its 10th anniversary in September 2011.) Issue of Oct. 3, 2002 As Kirk Wolfinger sat at home watching “Everybody Loves Raymond” and “The West Wing” clean up on awards night a couple weeks ago, he […]
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Oil spill protection exercise to be held Thursday at Scarborough Marsh
SCARBOROUGH – State emergency environmental responders will conduct a day-long boom deployment exercise Thursday in order to prepare to protect Scarborough Marsh in the event of an oil spill. The Maine Department of Environmental Protection has contracted with Moran Environmental Recovery, Boom Technologies Inc. and Nuka Research to assist with the drill, which will run […]
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DOWN THE ROAD A PIECE – Some kudos to the colonists
They say time flies when you’re having fun, and we must be having a great time in Maine when you stop and think it’s now been more than 400 years since an outfit known as the Plymouth Company attempted to establish an English colony with 120 hearty souls at the mouth of the mighty Kennebec […]
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ESPECIALLY FOR SENIORS – When you need a lawyer
Maine Legal Services for the Elderly is an organization comprising experts who provide free help Mainers who are 60 and older and “economically challenged.” If you need help with a legal situation, you should always seek the advice of a lawyer. Areas of concern for Maine elders include health-care decisions, contractor issues, grandparents’ rights, real […]
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POLITICS AND OTHER MISTAKES – Framing Charlie
“The senator wasn’t cut out for crime. He was the kind of man who’d use vanity plates on a getaway car.” –Andrew Vachss, from his novel “Blossom” After the first of his three unsuccessful runs for Congress, Charlie Summers, now a Republican U.S. Senate candidate, was asked by a reporter if his defeat had put […]
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QUINN'S CORNER – Accurate? Well, it sounds good
Hitler used to quote Charlemagne and Frederick the Great. In the same vein, U.S. political campaign speeches today often quote the leaders who set the United States up in business 200-odd years ago. Unfortunately, when these American ancients are quoted on such 21st-century matters as health care, gay marriage or gasoline taxes, their thoughts are […]
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FOOTBALL: Thornton routs Scarborough in battle of unbeatens
SACO – At 10 a.m. Saturday morning, Bobby Begin rode in the backseat of a car as the king of the Thornton Academy homecoming parade. At around 1:40 that afternoon, he showed he could reign on the football field as well. Begin picked up a Scarborough fumble and rumbled 75 yards for the opening touchdown […]
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FOOTBALL: Thornton routs Scarborough in battle of unbeatens
SACO – At 10 a.m. Saturday morning, Bobby Begin rode in the backseat of a car as the king of the Thornton Academy homecoming parade. At around 1:40 that afternoon, he showed he could reign on the football field as well. Begin picked up a Scarborough fumble and rumbled 75 yards for the opening touchdown […]
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FOOTBALL: Thornton routs Scarborough in battle of unbeatens
SACO – At 10 a.m. Saturday morning, Bobby Begin rode in the backseat of a car as the king of the Thornton Academy homecoming parade. At around 1:40 that afternoon, he showed he could reign on the football field as well. Begin picked up a Scarborough fumble and rumbled 75 yards for the opening touchdown […]
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BOYS SOCCER: Scarborough blanks Windham to take inside track at top seed
SCARBOROUGH – After losing a 1-0 heartbreaker to Windham in the Western Class A boys soccer championship game last October, Scarborough had to wait 11 months for its chance at revenge. Last Saturday night, they got it. The Red Storm scored just 2:29 into the game and added another four minutes later as they blitzed […]