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Global Matters: The French collection

There are better ways to spend a Sunday afternoon in Paris than making an impromptu visit to the emergency room in a public hospital, but that’s what I did a few weeks ago following an altercation with a chair at a restaurant in the Marais. I really ought to come up with a better sto...

Perry B. Newman • Opinion •
Monday, January 28, 2013 at 11:20 am

Forecaster Forum: As policy, LePage budget plan is 'fundamentally dishonest'

I love Yarmouth as a community and Maine as the greatest state in the country. And, I’m sure that residents and community leaders throughout our state feel the same way about their towns and cities. But, in my opinion, local municipalities are under attack. Not from the outside, but ...

Steve Woods • Opinion •
Monday, January 28, 2013 at 11:00 am

Letter: Marcoux's experience wasn't unique

I have never seen a stronger, more courageous piece of opinion in your paper than Dana Marcoux sharing his 1970s experience ("'Out' in Maine:...

• Opinion •
Monday, January 28, 2013 at 10:20 am

Letter: New taxes won't prevent gun violence

I am writing this in response to Edgar Allen Beem’s most recent column, “It’s time to tax guns, ammo.” Mr. Beem’s diatribe proves that he has lost all common sense and confirms that he is in the group of people that have no clue as to what they are speaking about whe...

• Opinion •
Monday, January 28, 2013 at 10:10 am

Falmouth woman robbed at gunpoint in Portland

PORTLAND — A 36-year-old Falmouth woman was robbed at gunpoint at a downtown bank ATM Thursday evening, according to a Police Department press release. Police responded at about 5:35 p.m. after the woman said she was forced to withdraw an undisclosed amount of money from her bank acc...

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Friday, January 25, 2013 at 12:40 pm

Northern School Notebook

Local students make college dean's lists Karen Bitan, Falmouth, Natalie Hench, Freeport, David Olshan, Yarmouth, and Christine Ordway, Falmouth, Cornell University; Alicia Hoffman, Cumberland, Beloit College; Samuel Mercer and Emily Wilner, Falmouth, Champlain College; Alyssa C. McE...

• Community •
Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Edwinn Haris Fogg, 87: Loved life, always young at heart

FREEPORT — Edwinn Harris Fogg, 87, died peacefully at his Freeport home Jan. 16. Fogg was born Dec. 3, 1925, in Freeport to Merrill Osborne Sr. and Clara Soule Osborne. The oldest of eight children, he grew up at Grover’s Crossing and was educated in Freeport schools. ...

• Obituaries •
Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Northern Meetings: Jan. 24-30

Freeport

• Community •
Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Harriette Pearl Goldman Kosoff, 99

FALMOUTH — Harriette Goldman Pearl Kosoff, 99, of Falmouth, died peacefully Jan. 13. Born Oct. 1, 1913, in Rochester, N.Y. to Phillip and Etta Raz Goldman. Kosoff was the last survivor of eight children. She attended school in Rochester and on Sept. 3, 1939, she married h...

• Obituaries •
Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Linda Marie Hipsher Newth Casey, 66

FREEPORT — On Jan. 5, Linda Marie Hipsher Newth Casey, 66, of Freeport, died peacefully at Mid Coast Hospital in Brunswick after a long illness. Her friends and family were at her side. Casey was born May 7, 1946, on Scott Air Force Base in Illinois, to Capt. Charles Warren Hipsher a...

• Obituaries •
Wednesday, January 23, 2013
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