Cormier clo: pnms-peoplebiz-avestadonation-011409 w/photo: pnms-peoplebiz-Brackett-011409 Brackett joins Weichert Realtors Waterglen Group PORTLAND — Megan Brackett of Falmouth recently joined Weichert Realtors Waterglen Group. Brackett, a newly licensed sales agent, graduated from Southern Maine Community College with a bachelor’s degree in business. Fiddlehead opens new facility in Scarborough SCARBOROUGH — Fiddlehead Center for the Arts recently […]
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pnms-peoplebiz-010709 People and Business
McAuley Residence gets challenge grant PORTLAND — Mercy’s McAuley Residence, a transitional housing and life skills program for women and children in crisis, has received a $25,000 challenge grant from the Gendron family of Portland. John, Charles, Edward and Helen (Champagne) Gendron have pledged to match every gift up to a maximum of $25,000 for […]
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p-phsfinancialaid-010709 PHS to host financial aid night for seniors
PORTLAND — There will be an informational meeting about financial aide for college-bound high school seniors and their parents Tuesday, Jan. 13, at 6:30 p.m. in room 304 at Portland High School. Trish Malloy of the Finance Authority of Maine will give parents an overview of information needed for the Free Application for Federal Student Aid. […]
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p-schoolsexed-010709 School Dept. seeks savings in sex ed
PORTLAND — A proposal to reassign the human sexuality teacher for the School Department’s 10 elementary schools is causing concern among some parents and those who provide health services to students. The School Committee on Jan. 7 will conduct a first reading of the proposal, one of several designed to make up for a $1.8 million curtailment in state […]
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pnms-ewaste-010709 Tossing tech-trash The economy throws a wrench in e-waste disposal
Your holiday pile of boxes, ribbons and wrapping paper shreds are probably long gone by now, carted off to the local transfer station alongside a turkey carcass, broken champagne flutes and the impossible plastic clam-shell package that once housed your new MP3 player. But if you’re like many other Mainers, you still have another pile […]
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pnms-grannykirkwoods-010709 Charitable shortbread bakery closes its doors
SOUTH PORTLAND — A business that sold Scottish shortbread to raise funds for a Maine Medical Center cancer unit has closed, its owner said, because of the sagging economy. Granny Kirkwood’s Shortbread, founded in 2007 by Marshall “Jack” Gibson, baked its last biscuits at the end of December. Granny Kirkwood’s goodies, which included at least […]
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pnms-letter_mills-010709 Dwight's con job
It’s a good thing we have investment advisers like J. Dwight to set the world’s scientists straight about global warming (“The Biggest Con Job in the History of Man,” Dec. 24-26). Dwight apparently feels that the scientists who put men on the moon, mapped the human genome, split the atom and can determine the composition […]
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pnms-frank-010709 Cheer up, things could be worse
It was a tough year. Two wars. Iran exerting destabilizing influence on the Middle East. Russian aggression in Georgia. Instability in Pakistan. Someone, I wonder who, trying to start a war between Pakistan and India. Pakistan responding by shifting troops from its border with Afghanistan to its border with India. Continued craziness in North Korea. […]
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pnms-dailysun-010709 N.H. publisher plans free Portland daily
PORTLAND — By the end of this month, city residents will have another free newspaper to pick up at the coffee shop or grocery store. The Portland Daily Sun will publish weekdays and include news of Portland along with some national and international news from The Associated Press. Mark Guerringue, a partner in the venture, […]
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pnms-beem-010709 Sports done right (away with)
As Maine school districts face a decline in state subsidies and the same financial hard times being visited on all sectors of American society, the Maine Principals’ Association has taken it upon itself to propose across-the-board cuts in school athletics. Among the measures being considered by the MPA are reducing the number of regular-season games […]