News in Brunswick

Forecaster Forum: 'Out' in Maine: How people, times change

Weeks before graduation from my small-town high school in the spring of 1975, I was caught by a state trooper having sex with another man in the woods of Maine. We were minors, exploring our sexuality in the back seat of a Volkswagen bug. The implications surrounding this event changed my ...

Dana Marcoux • Opinion •

Monday, January 21, 2013 at 11:50 am

The View From Away: Online college education isn't college or education

A friend recently sent me an article predicting the imminent demise of college as we know it at the hands of the cheaper, more efficient Internet. My friend sees this trend toward online higher education as an opportunity for me to teach in the digital classroom. She may be right. God know...

Mike Langworthy • Opinion •

Monday, January 21, 2013 at 11:10 am

The Universal Notebook: It's time to tax guns, ammo

Walking the dog the other day at Twin Brook Recreation Area in Cumberland, I was treated to the incessant bam-bam, bam-bam-bam, bam-bam, bam-bam-bam-bam, bam of someone targeting shooting somewhere off to the west. At least I hope they were just target shooting. You can’t discharge a...

Edgar Allen Beem • Opinion •

Monday, January 21, 2013 at 10:30 am

Forecaster Forum: Reports that we are dying are greatly exaggerated

Back in 1897, James Ross Clemens was ill. Not-so-careful passing on of information resulted in word that Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by his pen name of Mark Twain, was dying in London. When an enterprising reporter decided to check on Twain before publishing his demise, the author resp...

Cheryl Wormley • Opinion •

Monday, January 21, 2013 at 10:20 am

Letter: Looking forward to Delogu's follow-up

I would like to thank Orland Delogu for his well-researched Policy Wonk column on corporate welfare in Maine ("Corporate welfare in Main...

• Opinion •

Monday, January 21, 2013 at 9:50 am

Marilla Rose Feldman

BOSTON — Marilla Rose Feldman, daughter of Samuel Feldman and Skioka Kudo, died shortly after birth in a Boston hospital on Jan. 4. She is survived by her parents; twin sister, Maya Rachel Feldman; paternal grandparents Michael and Mary Beth Feldman of Bowdoin; maternal grandpar...

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Friday, January 18, 2013

Irving Brookings Wright Jr., 84

DRESDEN — Irving Brookings Wright Jr., 84, died Jan. 7 after a brief illness. He was born in Bath on Aug. 2, 1928, the son of Irving B. Wright and Lura Pearl Davis. He attended Bath schools and worked at the Wing Farm until joining the U.S. Marine Corps. He served in Korea, rece...

• Obituaries •

Friday, January 18, 2013

Elizabeth M. Berry, 82

BATH — Elizabeth M. Berry, 82, died Jan. 6 at her home surrounded by her family. She was born in Bath on Aug. 12, 1930, the daughter of F. Horace Jr. and Kathleen J. Ritall. She attended Georgetown and Bath schools and was later employed by Stinson Canning Factory, Congre...

• Obituaries •

Friday, January 18, 2013

Angela Mary Caruso, 97: Defied all odds

BRUNSWICK — Angela Mary Caruso, 97, died Jan. 8. She was the wife of the late Joseph S. Caruso and a long time resident of Everett, Mass. Caruso was born in East Boston, Mass., on March 21, 1915, the daughter of Joseph ad Mary Grilli. She was raised in Everett and graduated from...

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Friday, January 18, 2013

Shirley Gilliam, 75

BRUNSWICK — Shirley Gilliam, 75, died Jan. 8 after losing her battle with cancer. She was the daughter of Charles and Marguerite Lessner. She was born in Damariscotta in 1937, and lived and raised her family there until 1964, when she moved to Bath. She cooked...

Obituaries •

Friday, January 18, 2013