One thousand lumen hours of light is about the same as one 75-watt bulb for one hour. According to Lucius Flatley of the Gorham coffee shop, at the time of Babylon, a Babylonic had to put in 40 hours to earn enough lamp oil for 1,000 lumens. A few thousand years later – when the […]
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EDITORIAL – Another gas price spike calls for renewed look at transportation priorities
It’s starting to feel a lot like summer. Of 2008, that is. That was when gas prices last jumped north of $4 per gallon. Prices spiked at around $4.18 per gallon in July, and the impact was seen everywhere, from a drop in traveling and tourism to a rise in the cost of food. The […]
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Portland Water District proposes rate hike
PORTLAND – The Portland Water District recently filed a water rate increase with the Public Utilities Commission seeking a 1.9 percent increase in revenue, effective May 1, 2011. The increase, which is estimated to add an additional 32 cents to the typical monthly residential water bill and will fund system improvements needed to maintain clean […]
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Wildcats maul Patriots
PORTLAND – There’s no way to sugarcoat Gray-New Gloucester’s Class B quarterfinal against top-seeded York on Tuesday night. It was ugly from the get-go. The No. 9 Patriots didn’t score a field goal in the first quarter, getting just two points on free throws from Rachel Edson, one a minute into the game and the […]
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Governor finds warm welcome
WESTBROOK – Gov. Paul LePage received a gracious welcome when he brought his “Capitol for a Day” program to a town hall-style meeting in Westbrook’s Performing Arts Center Friday night. But most of those people who welcomed him so warmly were not local residents. More than 100 people from Cumberland County and beyond attended the […]
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New debt drives Gorham school budget
GORHAM – With the first payment coming due on a new school and stimulus money dried up, the Gorham School Department budget likely will be rising by nearly $1 million. The budget proposed by Superintendent Ted Sharp indicates spending $31.3 million, up $917,807 from the $30.4 million for the present fiscal year ending June 30. […]
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Boys basketball: Bonny Eagle to play Cheverus for West regional title
PORTLAND – And a freshman shall lead them. Dustin Cole, the lone freshman on the Bonny Eagle boys basketball team, had a game-high 14 points and two huge blocks as the No. 2 Scots advanced to the Class A West regional final with a 43-34 win over No. 6 Deering at the Cumberland County Civic […]
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Despite storms, plow budgets under control
LAKES REGION – Even after a seemingly brutal succession of storms last month, snow removal budgets in the Lakes Region are right on track. As another Maine winter passes its unofficial halfway mark, local public works departments are likewise about halfway through their winter maintenance budgets, aided in large part by the timing of the […]
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Inside Gray – 2/18
Patriot Players The Gray-New Gloucester Patriot Players will examine “taking tests” in their one-act performance of “Questionable” by Alan Haehnel. The Players will prep for the regional school competition with a public performance at 7 p.m. Friday, March 4, at the high school. The play is about the National Institute of Testing While Involving Theater […]
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LePage coming to Westbrook Friday for town hall meeting
WESTBROOK – Gov. Paul LePage is making good on his campaign pledge to host town hall meetings throughout the state, and he is beginning in the Democratic stronghold of Westbrook. LePage, a Republican, is bringing his so-called “Capitol for a Day” program to the greater Portland area on Friday, according to Adrienne Bennett, his press […]