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UPDATE: Mainers describe 'surreal' scene after Boston Marathon blasts

BOSTON — Two bombs exploded on packed streets Monday near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, something a Mainer who witnessed the explosions described as "surreal" and "like a movie." Casey Pola, a graduate of Mt. Ararat High School in Topsham who now works on and lives near Boy...

Will Graff • News •
Monday, April 15, 2013 at 9:20 pm

Southwest Airlines launches Portland service

PORTLAND — Southwest Airlines marked the start of service at Portland International Jetport with a news conference Monday morning, and celebrated by flying a young girl and her family to San Diego as a charitable gift through the Make-A-Wish Foundation. "Having Southwest service in g...

William Hall • News •
Monday, April 15, 2013 at 3:00 pm

Falmouth residents urged to join fight against invasive plants

FALMOUTH — Residents with an eye for insidious invasive plants should attend a meeting at the Falmouth Memorial Library April 24 to learn how they can help rid the town of terrestrial leaches like honeysuckle and multi-flora rose. The meeting, scheduled to begin at 7 p.m., is pa...

Amber Cronin • News •
Monday, April 15, 2013 at 2:20 pm

The View From Away: Even in Canada, the break room is a battleground

It’s finally sinking in that I'm in Toronto for a real job, with a workday, coworkers and an office. The people are nice. The office environment is friendly. I’m still getting used to showing up at the same place every day and being on time, but it is almost liberating to have ...

Mike Langworthy • Opinion •
Monday, April 15, 2013 at 11:40 am

The Universal Notebook: The right-wing attack on Bowdoin College

So a propaganda organization funded by an ultra-right-wing billionaire has determined that Bowdoin College is too liberal for its tastes. That’s news? It is, according to ultra-right-wing Bowdoin grad and retired Portland Press Herald editor M.D. Harmon, who has been dining ou...

Edgar Allen Beem • Opinion •
Monday, April 15, 2013 at 9:30 am

Route 1 makeover now in the hands of Falmouth voters

FALMOUTH — Town councilors Monday sent a long-debated Route 1 infrastructure improvement and rezoning plan to the public, but not before they heard objections to the inclusion of raised medians in the project. By a vote of 6-0, the Town Council scheduled the $11.7 million projec...

Amber Cronin • News •
Wednesday, April 10, 2013 at 7:50 am

Northern Meetings: April 11-17

Chebeague Island Tues.  4/16  6:30 p.m.  CISD School Committee  School Tues.  4/16  7:15 p.m.  CICA Housing Committee  PH Wed.  4/17  7:30 p.m.  CIC Board Meeting  PH Cumberland

Community •
Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Northern School Notebook: April 11

Yarmouth High School honor roll The following students have made the honor roll during the second quarter at Yarmouth High School. Grade 12 High Honors: Carolyn Adams, Samuel Beaulieu, Sarah Becker, Izik Dery, Sophia Emmons, Claire Fouchereaux, McKe...

Community •
Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Rhea McLean, 83

YARMOUTH - Rhea May McLean, 83, of Yarmouth, died March 29. She was born May 29, 1929, in Macon, Ga., the second daughter of Florence Seeley and Leonard Aldridge. The family settled in Maine where she attended North Yarmouth schools. In 1949 she married Gerald DeRoche. The couple ha...

Obituaries •
Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Hilda M. Coskery, 86: Longtime Freeport campground owner

FREEPORT — Hilda M. Coskery, 86, of Freeport, died March 30 at the Halifax Medical Center in Port Orange, Fla. She was born in Freeport on June 24, 1926, the daughter of Victor and Marietta Brewer Coffin. She attended Freeport schools and was a 1944 graduate of Freeport High Sch...

Obituaries •
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
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