Did you know that Maine stands alone in the United States as mandating a proficiency-based high school diploma beginning in 2018? Proficiency Based Education, the newest iteration of “reform,” has been dropped on our heads by so-called education experts and bureaucrats in Augusta. Maine’s children are being used like rats in a lab, with the […]
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Policy Wonk: All sides win in compromise on Portland's tipped wage
On July 6 the Portland City Council adopted a minimum wage ordinance that did two important things. First, it raised the minimum wage in the city to $10.10 an hour effective Jan. 1, 2016, and $10.68 effective Jan. 1, 2017. Second, the ordinance provided that each Jan. 1 thereafter, the minimum wage would increase in […]
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The Universal Notebook: Betwixt and between Brunswick, Yarmouth
Come Labor Day it will be one year since we moved from Yarmouth to Brunswick, and I have concluded over the intervening months that we did not move far enough. I constantly find myself caught betwixt and between the two towns. I now do my grocery shopping at Hannaford in Brunswick, though it feels a […]
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Brunswick woman arrested in Freeport for allegedly driving drunk with child in car
FREEPORT — A Brunswick woman was arrested Tuesday, Aug. 11, for allegedly driving drunk with one child in the car as she headed to pick up her other children from day care. Police said she struck two vehicles in separate areas of town before she was arrested. Heather Bowman, 39, was charged with operating under […]
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Brunswick school repairs up in the air while board awaits council advice
BRUNSWICK — After the Town Council last week rejected a School Board borrowing proposal for repair of Coffin Elementary and Brunswick Junior High schools, a plan to remediate the two buildings remains unclear. The council voted 8-1 Aug. 3 not to send a $12.6 million bond to a public hearing, effectively preventing it from going to referendum […]
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Brunswick School Department, principal deny violating bullied student’s civil rights
BRUNSWICK — The School Department and Brunswick Junior High School Principal Walter Wallace on Aug. 7 denied allegations of unlawful discrimination against a child who was pervasively bullied in school between 2010 and 2012. The complaint against the department and Wallace was filed in U.S. District Court in Portland on July 7 by the mother of the former […]
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Harpswell Police Beat: Aug. 14
Arrests 8/4 at 1:26 p.m. Mallory J. Spier, 30, of Crab Apple Point, was arrested at the Androscoggin County Sheriff’s Office in Auburn by Cumberland County Sheriff’s Deputy Steven Yankowsky on an outstanding warrant from another agency.
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Jeffrey D. Clark, 65: Air Force service led to lifelong journalism career
BATH — Jeffrey D. Clark, 65, died Aug. 4 from complications of esophageal cancer. Clark was born Feb. 8, 1950, in Belfast, the oldest of six children of Leroy H. “Pete” Clark, of Belfast, and Edith Mae “Di” (Davies) Clark, formerly of Liverpool, England. Jeffrey graduated from Belfast Area High School in 1968, and attended […]
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Robert M. Labbe, 76
BRUNSWICK — Robert M. Labbe, 76, of Baribeau Drive, died suddenly Aug. 3 at Mid Coast Hospital. He was born Aug. 6, 1938, in Topsham, the son of Adelard and Ruth Vigeant Labbe. He attended local schools, and later obtained a GED after returning from two years of service in the U.S. Army. From 1965-1973, […]
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Beth L. Woodmancy, 52
BRUNSWICK — Beth “Cricket” Leslie Woodmancy, 52, died Aug. 2, after enjoying her participation in the annual Stoney Lobster motorcycle run. She was born April 6, 1963, in Putnam, Connecticut, the daughter of Charles Alfred Woodmancy and Leslie Jewel Stoddard-Woodmancy. Woodmancy was an artist, and a fun-loving, compassionate woman who always stepped up to the […]