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Dine Out Maine: Outliers a great success story in Portland’s dining handbook

Mention the Outliers Eatery location, and the follow-up is inevitable: “The place that used to have the airplane tail sticking on its roof?” Putting the politics of Portland’s gentrification aside, Outliers is a model for transformation. No longer a dingy and dubious landmark, the space now has a charming, neat gray shingled facade. Rather than […]

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Carey Kish: Rachel Carson Refuge helps preclude a silent spring

The Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge comprises 10 geographic units ranging along 50 miles of the Maine coast from Kittery to Cape Elizabeth. These areas protect a wide variety of habitats important to migratory birds and other wildlife, and include tidal estuaries, salt marshes, barrier beaches and dunes, coastal meadows, rocky coast and forested uplands. […]

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LOOKING BACK

Aug. 10, 1988 By the end of the month, rural Gorham will become a little less rural, when the town completes a changeover to permanent street addresses for all rural free delivery boxholders in town. The changeover comes at the request of Gorham Postmaster Paul Robinson, and was done by the town at a cost […]

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Arts Calendar – 8/8

Theater Thursday and Friday, Aug. 9-10, 15-17 “Don Quixote,” performed by Maine State Ballet, at Maine State Ballet Theater, Route 1, Falmouth, 7 p.m. and Saturday matinees at 2. Reserved seating, $17-$23 ($2 senior/child discount). Call 781-3587 or see mainestateballet.org. Tuesday, Aug. 20 “Midsummer Merriment: A Sumptuous Feast of Verse,” by The Naked Shakespeare Company, […]

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Letters to the editor: Medicare should be cheered, expanded

On July 30, 1965, Lyndon Johnson signed Medicare into law. As we note that anniversary, it is interesting to compare the health care news of our own day. For instance, an article in the July 25 Portland Press Herald (“Briefcase: Wellpoint stock sets record ahead of health care reform“) reports: “Shares of Wellpoint Inc. hit […]