News in Cumberland/North Yarmouth

Out & About: 'A Night at the Movies' with Portland Symphony

The 85th Academy Awards ceremonies will be happening this Sunday. If your invitation to the Hollywood extravaganza was lost in the mail, you might want to celebrate instead by attending a symphonic concert based on favorite movie themes over the decades. That’s the plan for the Portl...

Scott Andrews • Lifestyle •

Monday, February 18, 2013 at 2:30 pm

Arts Calendar Feb. 20 - March 5

Greater Portland Auditions/Calls for Art Sunday 3/3 Portland School of Ballet CORPS Program, 1:30-4:30 p.m., Portland Ballet Studios, 517 Forest Ave., Portland, 772-9671, $20 audition fee. Books & Authors Friday 2/22 Friday Local Author Series: Rick H... Greater Portland Auditio...

Lifestyle •

Monday, February 18, 2013 at 2:10 pm

Community Calendar Feb. 20 - March 5

Greater Portland Bulletin Board Tuesday 2/26 Indoor yard sale & bake sale, 9 a.m., American Legion Post 35, 413 Broadway, South Portland, 799-3997. Wednesda...

Community •

Monday, February 18, 2013 at 1:50 pm

The Universal Notebook: Grampy reads 'Gumpy'

One of the great joys of having grandchildren – three and counting – is that I get to read to little kids again. Our living-room bookcase is stuffed with board books, picture books, and chapter books going back to our oldest daughter’s infancy more than 30 years ago. Come to thi...

Edgar Allen Beem • Opinion •

Monday, February 18, 2013 at 12:30 pm

The View From Away: A moth to the flame of Facebook

I am psyching myself up to reactivate Facebook. I left during the run-up to the election because it was becoming increasingly aggravating and a massive time suck. I couldn’t stop myself from trying to inject some reason into threads about why Obama or Romney was a minion of Satan, and the n...

Mike Langworthy • Opinion •

Monday, February 18, 2013 at 12:00 pm

Letter: Portland election a model for Maine

I am delighted to see that Will Graff is continuing to report on the important issue of ranked-choice voting as it is taken up by the Legisl...

• Opinion •

Monday, February 18, 2013 at 9:00 am

Letter: Beem is wrong about health-care competition

In his column "Nothing healthy about health insurance," Edgar Allem Beem pontificates that "health care, like education, ...

• Opinion •

Monday, February 18, 2013 at 8:40 am

Letter: Cumberland high school culture needs attention

I was not surprised when Greely basketball players posted photographs of themselves giving the Nazi salute. There is something terribly wrong in the culture of a school when students behave this way; young people do not find their way to bullying and neo-Nazism alone. There is something wr...

• Opinion •

Monday, February 18, 2013 at 8:30 am

Editorial: Information doesn't kill people

Every document and every meeting at all levels of Maine government – state, county and municipal – are public unless there is a specific exception written in statute that shields the document or makes a meeting confidential. If there’s no exception, the public h...

• Opinion •

Sunday, February 17, 2013 at 10:20 am

North School Notebook

Portland school buys land in Cumberland The Friends School of Portland recently purchased 21 acres of land along U.S. Route 1 in Cumberland for the site of its future new home. The building will be built to be environmentally sustainable and the school is working with ...

Community •

Wednesday, February 13, 2013