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Letter: Beem ignores 'nincompoops' who toe the party line

As I read Edgar Allen Beem's column of Nov. 7, I found myself both irritated and disappointed. While I was bothered by the "where ...

• Opinion •
Monday, November 12, 2012 at 9:30 am

Letter: Lawmakers must ignore party ideology

Now that the elections are over, it is my hope that our newly elected and re-elected state and federal representatives will waste no time in focusing on the issues of concern to older Mainers and their families. Issues such as financial and health security are of paramount importance to many of o...

• Opinion •
Monday, November 12, 2012 at 9:20 am

Letter: Frank misses the point about Citizens United

Most people have enough common sense to reject the ideas that corporations are people, and that money is speech, through deductive reasoning. Yet these concepts have been codified into law by our Supreme Court in the oligarchical “Citizens United” ruling. Halsey Frank’s recent

• Opinion •
Monday, November 12, 2012 at 9:00 am

Letter: Brunswick hospital helps educate nurses

I support approval of the pending Certificate of Need application for Parkview Adventist Medical Center to join Central Maine Healthcare.

• Opinion •
Monday, November 12, 2012 at 8:50 am

Lawrence Bernard Caron, 89: often found on golf fairway

BRUNSWICK — Lawrence Bernard Caron, 89, of River Road, died Nov. 3 at his home. He was born in Brunswick May 1, 1923, the son of Elzear Joseph and Henriette Poirier Caron. He graduated from St. John’s Catholic School and attended Brunswick High School.  

Obituaries •
Friday, November 9, 2012

Louise Boucher Dumais, 90

BRUNSWICK — Louise Boucher Dumais, 90, died Oct. 27 at Freeport Place assisted-living home. The daughter of the late Alma (Emma) Dufresne and Frank Boucher, she was born on May 17, 1922, in Brunswick and lived there most of her life.  In 1943, she married Robert Dumais in...

Obituaries •
Friday, November 9, 2012

Colleen Fay Wilbur, 86

BRUNSWICK — Colleen Fay Wilbur, 86, died Nov. 1 at Mid Coast Hospital. Wilbur was born in Harmony on Oct. 10, 1926, a daughter of George and May Gilman Chadbourne. She graduated from Harmony High School in 1946, and married Ernest R. Wilbur in Minot in 1966. Wilbur worked in shoe sho...

Obituaries •
Friday, November 9, 2012

Mid-Coast School Noteboook

Dave Lewis, firefighter instructor at Region Ten Technical High School, earned cider and a donut for having his head shaved by health occupations students Gina Graziano and Miranda Lynch. The shave helped Graziano and Lynch get hands-on experience in personal care skills, a requirement in th...

Community •
Friday, November 9, 2012

Mid-Coast Meetings: Nov. 9-15

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Community •
Friday, November 9, 2012

Brunswick Police Beat: Nov. 9

Arrests 11/1 at 12:02 a.m. Willis L. Jordan III, 35, of Everett Street, was arrested on Tibbetts Drive by Sgt. Joel Bruce on a warrant. 11/1 at 12:59 p.m. Nathan A. Elwell, 22, no address listed, was arrested on Cedar Street by Officer Jonathan O'...

Police Beat •
Thursday, November 8, 2012
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