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Community Calendar March 6-19

Greater Portland Benefits Thursday 3/7 Taking Action to Make a Change: Service Learning Dinner Benefit, 7-9 p.m., Freeport Community Center, 53 Depot St., Freeport, 865-4706 ext. 307.

Community •
Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Letter: Legislature drops the ball on special interests

Thank you for printing Orlando Delogu’s columns exposing the issue of corporate welfare in our state. I do not want to subsidize bi...

• Opinion •
Monday, March 4, 2013

Short Relief: Send in the drones

It’s early March and I should be wary, but I don’t think it is too early to pronounce unmanned drones the greatest achievement of the 21st century. They are relatively cheap, quiet and effective. They can solve a host of our problems: terrorism, climate change, illegal immigrat...

Halsey Frank • Opinion •
Monday, March 4, 2013

The View From Away: Oh, Canada?

A few months ago, an old friend from Los Angeles, a director who emigrated to Canada for professional reasons, invited me to help him out on a television pilot he was producing for Canadian television. After a delightful week in Toronto, for which I was paid nearly enough to cover the cost...

Mike Langworthy • Opinion •
Monday, March 4, 2013

The Universal Notebook: The enemy within

Remember back in 2009, when the Department of Homeland Security report "Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment" warned that right-wing extremists posed a greater threat to America than Islamic militants? And remember...

Edgar Allen Beem • Opinion •
Monday, March 4, 2013

Letter: Access to health care should be guaranteed

Access to health care should be guaranteed to all citizens. Bruce LeClaire argued in a letter that government-run health care is inefficient...

• Opinion •
Monday, March 4, 2013

Unsung Heroes: The Knit Wits, knitting for love

HARPSWELL — Enter the basement of the Islands Community Church on Bailey Island any Wednesday afternoon between 1:30 and 3:30 p.m., and you will see a dozen or so women knitting – and telling stories and laughing and eating cookies prepared by one of the women’s husbands.

David Treadwell • News •
Friday, March 1, 2013 at 1:30 pm

Harpswell man charged with child sex assault

HARPSWELL — A local man is being held on $50,000 bail at Cumberland County Jail in Portland after a police investigation alleged he sexually abused a 13-year-old girl over two years, according to the Cumberland County Sheriff's Office. The suspect's live-in girlfriend, Holly Col...

News •
Friday, March 1, 2013 at 11:00 am

Editorial: A history of open access to concealed handgun permits

In February, as debate swirled in the House regarding emergency legislation to temporarily conceal the personal identifying information printed on concealed handgun permits, there were a lot of questions about why the 112th Legislature defined these permits as public records way back when.

• Opinion •
Friday, March 1, 2013

Louisa H. Blake, 82

BRUNSWICK — Louisa H. Blake, 82, of Brunswick, died Sunday at Gosnell Memorial Hospice House in Scarborough. She was born Feb. 8, 1931, in Portland to Alfred Sr. and Grace Seavey Milliken.  Blake attended Portland schools, graduating from Deering High School with the...

Obituaries •
Friday, March 1, 2013
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