News in Cumberland/North Yarmouth

North Yarmouth Police Beat: Dec. 27

Arrests No arrests were reported from Dec. 17 - 23. Summonses No summons were reported from Dec. 17 - 23. Fire calls 12/21 at 6:24 p.m. Power lines down on West Pownal Road. 12/21 at 4:28 p.m. Power lines down on Da...

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Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Northern School Notebook

It all adds up to success From left, Toby Kany, Joseph Gilbert, Kristin Kendell, Jay Philbrook, Aaron Howell and Emma Raven made up the fifth grade math team from the North Yarmouth Memorial School that placed first at the Southern Maine Elementary Math League Meet on Dec. 6. Phil...

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Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Northern Meetings: Dec. 27-Jan. 2

Cumberland

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Wednesday, December 26, 2012

People and Business

Awards Christine Bearce, the physical education teacher and assistant principal at Longfellow Elementary School in Portland, has received the highest award for leadership given by the Maine Association for Health, Physical Education, Recre...

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Tuesday, December 25, 2012

Charity behind the gloss for former pageant queen from Freeport

FREEPORT — A 2010 cosmetics start-up is working to foster inner beauty as well as outer beauty, and hopes to become a global force in the fight against drug addiction. Lipgloss4lives was started ...

Amber Cronin • News •

Monday, December 24, 2012 at 10:30 am

King looks forward to next session of U.S. Senate

BRUNSWICK — Thirty down, 69 to go. Angus King has his work cut out for him. As you might expect, since his election to the U.S. Senate in November, King has been a busy guy. Last week, the former two-term, independent governor of Maine was counting up the number of other U.S. ...

Scott Thistle, Sun Journal • News •

Monday, December 24, 2012 at 9:40 am

The Universal Notebook: The (almost) silent treatment

After a brief flirtation with Facebook, I decided last week that the social media site was not useful to me. I deactivated my Facebook page. It was just more aggravation than it was worth, it was wasting my time, and, frankly, I didn’t care for some of the people who popped up on &ld...

Edgar Allen Beem • Opinion •

Monday, December 24, 2012

The View From Away: Who are you going to believe?

I don’t mind that my wife is smarter than I am. I’ve known since childhood that women are fascinating individually and, collectively, The Borg. You know, from "Star Trek." Hive-like alien collective with a communal mind and the catchphrase, “Resistance is futile.” Y...

Mike Langworthy • Opinion •

Monday, December 24, 2012

Global Matters: New Mayan prophecies discovered! (Don't say we didn't warn you)

A team of archaeologists has revealed the discovery of an artifact of unquestioned historical significance: a confidential memo, apparently from a trusted royal soothsayer and prognosticator to one of the last kings of the Mayan empire. The memo refers to the Mayan calendar’s now dis...

Perry B. Newman • Opinion •

Monday, December 24, 2012

Arts Calendar: Dec. 26-Jan. 6

Greater Portland Auditions & Calls for Art Portland Children's Festival is seeking entries to the Young Filmmakers Contest, April 4-7, 2013, open to students in kindergarten through high school from Portland and surrounding comm...

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Saturday, December 22, 2012