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RSU 5 board sends $17M Freeport High School renovation to June referendum

FREEPORT — The Regional School Unit 5 Board of Directors voted 9-2 Wednesday night to send a proposed $16.9 ...

Will Graff • News •
Thursday, January 24, 2013 at 12:20 pm

Freeport seeks growth of workforce housing

FREEPORT — The Town Council Tuesday unanimously approved an ordinance aimed at creating more affordable housing for people who work in town. Councilors also approved site plan review changes, but other ordinance amendments, governing village parking and agriculture, were sent back to...

Will Graff • News •
Wednesday, January 23, 2013 at 9:40 am

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

Freeport Police Beat: Jan. 24

Arrests 1/18 at 10:06 a.m. A 15-year-old female was arrested on Main Street by Officer Michael McManus on an outstanding warrant from another agency. Summonses 1/18 at 12:34 p.m. Serena M. McIntyre, 30, of Westbrook Street, South Portland...

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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...

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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...

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Wednesday, January 23, 2013

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

Northern Meetings: Jan. 24-30

Freeport

• Community •
Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Freeport rep to host gun, culture discussion

FREEPORT — State Rep. Sara Gideon, D-Freeport, and Freeport Community Services are sponsoring a panel discussion about gun laws, school safety, mental health, parenting and the culture of masculinity in the wake of the school shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.

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Tuesday, January 22, 2013 at 3:30 pm

Freeport Town Council turnover continues with Arno resignation

FREEPORT — Freshmen town councilors will outnumber veterans after Councilor Kate Arno announced her resignation last week. Arno will attend her final meeting Tuesday. She is taking a job at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting in Washington, D.C. "This was an unexpected job...

Will Graff • News •
Tuesday, January 22, 2013 at 10:00 am
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