FREEPORT — A spay and neuter clinic that has offered affordable services the last five years in Freeport is moving to Topsham early next month. The Community Spay-Neuter Clinic is closing this week at 475 U.S. Route 1 and will move Sept. 3 to 321 Lewiston Road in Topsham, where it will reopen Sept. 8. “We […]
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Out & About: Top tix: ‘Million Dollar Quartet,' IIIrd Tyme Out
The summer arts and entertainment calendar may be winding down, but this week’s top tickets prove how much energy remains. “Million Dollar Quartet,” currently running at Ogunquit Playhouse, is based on the historical 1956 recording session that brought together four pioneers of rock-and-roll: Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, Elvis Presley and Jerry Lee Lewis. All four […]
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The Universal Notebook: The Trumping of America
Donald Trump embodies some of the worst aspects of the American character: the worship of celebrity and wealth, a knee-jerk nationalism, a prejudice against the poor, the nativist fear of foreigners, the objectification of women, and the hypocrisy of me-first capitalism. No wonder simple folks love him. Trump leads the braying pack of wild Republican […]
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Abby’s Road: What is summer in Maine? All this
Summer in Maine is more than just a season. It’s a temporal “yes, but” counter-argument to winter. It’s a full sensory event, a magazine cover come to life. The masterpiece any tourism bureau would like to claim. Summer in Maine is light. It’s the soft dawn of a new day, the sun sparkling off the […]
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Letter: Columnist's 'scare tactics' about education are misleading
Many citizens believe education is the critical component of democracy. Unfortunately political partisans have grasped to the goal of improving education for the future and overlaid the debate over national educational goals and states’ rights and local control. The last session of the Maine state Legislature debated rigorously the merits of Common Core standards and […]
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Officials say merged Brunswick hospitals are stronger; Lewiston medical center disagrees
BRUNSWICK — Officials from Parkview and Mid Coast hospitals asked people at an Aug. 18 Topsham community discussion to pray for approval of Parkview’s proposed reorganization and its merger with Mid Coast. Two days later their prayers were answered. U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge Peter Cary on Thursday, Aug. 20, approved the sale of much of Parkview’s property […]
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Bankruptcy court approves merger of Brunswick hospitals
BRUNSWICK — The merger of Mid Coast Hospital and Parkview Adventist Medical Center was approved Thursday in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Portland. According to a press release from Mid Coast, U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge Peter Cary approved the private sale of much of Parkview’s campus to Mid Coast, the key financial mechanism in Parkview’s “pre-packaged” bankruptcy plan. […]
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Brunswick hospitals await bankruptcy judge’s merger decision
TOPSHAM — Depending on a bankruptcy court decision possible this week, Parkview and Mid Coast hospitals of Brunswick are set to merge. Parkview Adventist Medical Center filed for voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection June 15. The hospital’s “pre-packaged” bankruptcy plan involves merging with nearby Mid Coast Hospital to form a new Mid Coast-Parkview Health System. Since […]
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Lillian L. Leverone, 89
BRUNSWICK — Lillian Lorena Leverone, 89, died Aug. 6 at Mid Coast Hospital. Leverone was born in Milton, Massachusetts, on April 25, 1926, the only child of Llewellen and Lillian Bolton Rimmer. She graduated from Milton High School, and as a young adult was employed at H.P. Hood in Charlestown, Massachusetts. On June 24, 1950, […]
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Frances Richards, 87
TOPSHAM — Frances Richards, 87, of Topsham, died Aug. 10, after battling a series of difficult health problems. The daughter of Antonio Pina and Maria Mello, she was born in Taunton, Massachusetts. She attended local schools and graduated from Mary Immaculate High School in Providence, Rhode Island. On Nov. 19, 1949, she married Elmer R. […]