A new report shows how it can improve the economic and social infrastructure.
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Book Review: ‘Jeeves and the Wedding Bells’
What ho! A new novel starring the greatest comic characters of 20th-century English literature, bumbling Bertie Wooster and his unflappable, Spinoza-reading valet Jeeves? How can this be, one asks oneself, scratching the bean with Bertie-like perplexity. Didn’t P.G. Wodehouse, who brought Jeeves and Bertie to life, hand in his lunch pail on Valentine’s Day in […]
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Mainers rooting for Eagles
Philadelphia Coach Chip Kelly maintains friendships with several Mainers.
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Notre Dame beats Rutgers 29-16 in Pinstripe Bowl
Tommy Rees leads the Fighting Irish to a win at Yankee Stadium.
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Our View: DHHS aid rule shift will cost more than it saves
Cutting off General Assistance to asylum seekers could hinder their becoming productive residents.
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Calendar spotlights Sebago Lake photographers
SEBAGO LAKE – The Portland Water District has released its 9th annual Images of Sebago Lake calendar this year featuring 24 diverse images of the lake captured by 22 amateur local photographers. The photographs, which feature loons, a dog, sunrises, ice formations and docks, are matched with quotations from Einstein, Thoreau, and Camus, among others. […]
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ON THE RIGHT LANE: When loyal was royal
“Big business never pays a nickel in taxes, according to Ralph Nader, who represents a big consumer organization that never pays a nickel in taxes.” Dave Barry, writer and humorist. I love all the clamor about increasing taxes for businesses to solve the so-called problem of too little tax money for government and at the […]
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Westbrook Notes – 12/26
Recycling Department shows special tree For the fourth year in a row, the Westbrook Recycling Department created a 100 percent recyclable Christmas tree for the Festival of Trees, at the Westbrook-Warren Congregational Church, United Church of Christ, 810 Main St. Lynn Leavitt is the recycling and storm water coordinator for the city of Westbrook. Leavitt […]
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USM, town team up for New Year Gorham
GORHAM – For the first time, the University of Southern Maine will team up with the town of Gorham for its annual New Year’s celebration. New Year Gorham gets under way this year at noon on Dec. 31 with snow sculpting at a site off College Avenue at the university’s Gorham campus. Joshua Wolfe, a […]
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Safety at issue
WESTBROOK – New details have emerged about what led to the resignation of the Westbrook School Department’s transportation coordinator after just six months, including the department’s handling of a November incident involving a young student who became trapped in the doors of a bus. Cindy Button said Monday that the child, who was exiting the […]