News in Freeport

Community Calendar: June 5-18

Greater Portland Benefits Tuesday 6/11 Benefit for CEHS Safe Passage Team, CEHS will receive a portion of the sale from every flatbread purchased that day, Flatbread Company, 72 Commercial St., Portland, 232-...

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Monday, June 3, 2013 at 3:10 pm

Cumberland County sheriff wins 'food fight' with manager

PORTLAND — Cumberland County Sheriff Kevin Joyce successfully fought back a proposal by County Manager Peter Crichton to consider hiring a private company to take over the kitchen at the Cumberland County Jail. In an appearance before the county’s five-member Board of Commissio...

Ted Cohen • News •

Monday, June 3, 2013 at 1:00 pm

Unsung Hero: Theresa Saxton, doing the Iron Man for mom

YARMOUTH — Why would any sane soul choose to do the Iron Man Triathlon, an event consisting of a 2.4-mile swim, a 112-mile bike ride and a 26.2-mile (full marathon) run? More to the point, why would someone choose to do it solo, without hundreds of fellow competitors from whom to dra...

David Treadwell • News •

Monday, June 3, 2013 at 12:10 pm

The Universal Notebook: The decline of church, a sermonette

This little reflection on the future of church (mine, yours and many others) in an age of declining church membership is a revised version of a sermonette I delivered as part of the June 2 Laity Sunday service at First Parish Church, United Church of Christ, Yarmouth. What I did not tell m...

Edgar Allen Beem • Opinion •

Monday, June 3, 2013 at 10:40 am

Abby's Road: Do not expose to heat

I do not do well in heat. After prolonged exposure to temperatures north of, say, 78 degrees, I melt into a barely contained puddle. It is one of the characteristics I have most in common with an ice cube. This tendency worked especially against me when I lived in large cities. Commuting t...

Abby Diaz • Opinion •

Monday, June 3, 2013 at 10:20 am

Short Relief: Who's fooling who on MaineCare?

There is nothing unreasonable about Maine paying its hospital debt independent of expanding MaineCare. MaineCare is Maine’s version of Medicaid. It provides health care to low-income persons. It is jointly funded by the state and federal governments. Maine hospitals are owed $...

Halsey Frank • Opinion •

Monday, June 3, 2013 at 10:10 am

Letter: Beem column triggers childhood memories

Edgar Allen Beem's "Pictures of Childhood" column brought back these memories. My mother's first sojourn out of northern New Hampshire was a summer job at a hotel in Old Orchard Beac...

• Opinion •

Monday, June 3, 2013 at 8:40 am

'Coach' Andrew Thompson, 80: Beloved athletic director

BRUNSWICK — Sports legend and athletic director “Coach” Andrew Thompson, 80, died May 20 at his favorite place on earth, his home by the ocean, surrounded by family. Thompson was born in Freeport July 14, 1932. He graduated from Brunswick High School in 1951 where he...

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Friday, May 31, 2013

Cumberland County fires former detective who is suing sheriff

SOUTH PORTLAND — Gerard Brady, who is suing Cumberland County, Sheriff Kevin Joyce and Chief Deputy Naldo Gagnon, was fired from his job as a sheriff's deputy May 21 by Cumberland County Manager Peter Crichton. Jonathan Goodman, Brady's lawyer, said Crichton cited the union collectiv...

David Harry • News •

Wednesday, May 29, 2013 at 2:20 pm

Lena Hamilton, 68

FREEPORT — Lena M. Hamilton, 68, died peacefully May 18 after a long illness, with family near. Born in Portland and a lifelong resident of Maine, Hamilton graduated from Falmouth High School in 1963. She was a realtor in the late '70s and '80s and spent her career in rea...

Obituaries •

Wednesday, May 29, 2013