News in Brunswick

Paul A. Dube, 70

TOPSHAM — Paul A. Dube, 70, of Foreside Road, died Dec. 27 at Freeport Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. He was born in Brunswick on Feb. 22, 1942, the son of Joseph Dube and Delia Labbe. Dube attended primary school at St. John's and graduated from Brunswick High School. He then served in...

Obituaries •

Friday, January 4, 2013

Artists visit farm life in upcoming Brunswick exhibition

BRUNSWICK — A table might not be the first thing that comes to mind when someone says "agriculture," but for artist Maina Handmaker, it's the center of everything that happens on a family farm. This interpretation of farm life and many others will be on display at Frontier, 14 M...

Dylan Martin • News •

Thursday, January 3, 2013 at 8:00 am

Brunswick Police Beat: Jan. 4

Arrests 12/28 at 10:41 p.m. Derek F. Nesbitt, 21, of Hickory Drive, was arrested on Pleasant Street by Officer Patrick Scott on charges of operating under the influence, possession of marijuana and sale and use of drug paraphernalia. 12/29 at 12:40 a.m.

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Thursday, January 3, 2013

'It's about our future': Same-sex couples make marriage history in Brunswick

BRUNSWICK — Katherine Wilder and Margaret O'Connell first talked about getting married in 2009, but they didn't know how to make that happen until it became a legal possibility in Maine on Dec. 29, 2012. Wilder and O'Connell, accompanied by their dog Blue, were one of the first ...

Dylan Martin • News •

Wednesday, January 2, 2013 at 12:20 pm

People and Business

Appointments Falmouth Historical Society recently elected a new board: Scott McLeod, president; Janice de Lima, vice president; Betsy Jo Whitcomb, secretary; Fred Howe, treasurer...

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Tuesday, January 1, 2013

'Frugal' local budgets dictate employee salaries

PORTLAND — Elected officials and public employees in greater Portland didn't get rich on their wages during 2012, but some individuals came closer than others. The information was compiled by The Forecaster, which obtained the names and annual compensation of the highest-paid officia...

William Hall • News •

Monday, December 31, 2012 at 11:40 am

Southern Maine school districts prepare for subsidy loss

PORTLAND — The freeze is here, and not just because of the weather. With more than 200 school districts in Maine facing the loss of a cumulative $12.58 million in general purpose aid from the state Departme...

David Harry • News •

Monday, December 31, 2012 at 10:20 am

Short Relief: A stitch in time costs about a grand

Early in life, my greatest talent appeared to be breaking glass. I went through glass tables, glass windows, and glass doors, and I have the scars to show for it. I was a regular at the Englewood Hospital Emergency Room. Fortunately, my across-the-street neighbors were a couple of d...

Halsey Frank • Opinion •

Monday, December 31, 2012

The Universal Notebook: Slaughter of the innocents

Who or what is to blame for the slaughter of the innocents in Newtown, Conn.? Columbine? Tucson? Omaha? Virginia Tech? Brookfield? Meridian? Lancaster? You don’t want to think about such horrors anymore than I do, but we have no choice. The simple answer is that the Sandy Hook Elemen...

Edgar Allen Beem • Opinion •

Monday, December 31, 2012

Abby's Road: There is good amid all the bad

It can be hard to celebrate what we have when the holidays are dominated with news of what we have lost. On Thanksgiving, when Falmouth lost a beloved second-grade teacher I did not know, I mourned an absence that I had never counted on as a presence. After Thanksgiving, when my in-...

Abby Diaz • Opinion •

Monday, December 31, 2012