The 4- and 6-year-old brothers had been visiting the apartment of a friend whose father owned an exotic pet store on the floor below.
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ESPECIALLY FOR SENIORS: Back-to-school memories
August is my favorite month – it’s in between summer and fall and brings us hot days and cool nights. When I was a kid, it seemed like the month would never end, I was so anxious to begin another school year. School always started the day after Labor Day – and there was a […]
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LETTERS: Try again
The July 31 Tri-Town Weekly editorial cartoon with an elderly couple concerned about “With health care costs up, the price of food, gas and heating oil, and now the end of the Circuit Breaker program, I think we finally have to sell the old family homestead,” coupled with (I believe) a caricature of our governor […]
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DOWN THE ROAD A PIECE – Bottleneck study strains belief
I don’t think it was Einstein, but someone equally smart once said, “Everything is relative. From a small plane an uncle looks like an ant.” Like I said, I don’t know who first said that, but I’ve always assumed that the person was immediately taken to the woodshed and soundly thrashed for such a play […]
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Freeport News – 8/7
The Farm Stand returns Residents of Freeport, and all the tourists who know the back way to town, rejoice: The Farm Stand on South Freeport Road, which closed without notice several months back, is open once again under new ownership, offering local and organic fruits and vegetables with a few other surprises thrown in. Since […]
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Moose-related accident surge likely an aberration
The cluster of central Maine moose accidents recently, including five in Franklin County and one Friday in China, is unusual and probably an aberration, but not unheard for this time of year.
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George Duke, 67, Grammy winner, jazz keyboardist, producer
Duke played with performers as diverse as Frank Zappa and Cannonball Adderley, as well as on Michael Jackson’s multiplatinum 1979 album, ‘Off the Wall.’
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Python kills two Canadian boys after escaping enclosure
The python slithered through the ventilation system to an apartment where two young boys were sleeping, the store owner says.
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University of Iowa ranked nation’s best party school
But school officials aren’t celebrating.
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Drunk driver who killed two Mainers held without bail
Travis Lawler, an ex-Marine who gave a tearful apology at sentencing, is accused of taking drugs, in violation of his bail conditions.