News in Freeport

Southern Maine school districts prepare for subsidy loss

PORTLAND — The freeze is here, and not just because of the weather. With more than 200 school districts in Maine facing the loss of a cumulative $12.58 million in general purpose aid from the state Departme...

David Harry • News •

Monday, December 31, 2012 at 10:20 am

Abby's Road: There is good amid all the bad

It can be hard to celebrate what we have when the holidays are dominated with news of what we have lost. On Thanksgiving, when Falmouth lost a beloved second-grade teacher I did not know, I mourned an absence that I had never counted on as a presence. After Thanksgiving, when my in-...

Abby Diaz • Opinion •

Monday, December 31, 2012

Community Calendar: Jan. 2-13

Greater Portland Bulletin Board Wednesday 1/2

Community •

Monday, December 31, 2012

Arts Calendar: Jan. 2-13

Greater Portland Auditions & Calls for Art Musica de Filia, auditions for several all-female choirs, Jan. 2-22, 550 Forest Ave, Portland, 807-2158. Books & Authors Friday 1/11

Lifestyle •

Monday, December 31, 2012

Short Relief: A stitch in time costs about a grand

Early in life, my greatest talent appeared to be breaking glass. I went through glass tables, glass windows, and glass doors, and I have the scars to show for it. I was a regular at the Englewood Hospital Emergency Room. Fortunately, my across-the-street neighbors were a couple of d...

Halsey Frank • Opinion •

Monday, December 31, 2012

The Universal Notebook: Slaughter of the innocents

Who or what is to blame for the slaughter of the innocents in Newtown, Conn.? Columbine? Tucson? Omaha? Virginia Tech? Brookfield? Meridian? Lancaster? You don’t want to think about such horrors anymore than I do, but we have no choice. The simple answer is that the Sandy Hook Elemen...

Edgar Allen Beem • Opinion •

Monday, December 31, 2012

'We finally feel equal': Maine's first married gay couple ties the knot at Portland City Hall

PORTLAND — The first gay couple to be married in the state of Maine took their vows in a short ceremony in the city clerk’s office at approximately 12:25 a.m. Saturday. “We finally feel equal and happy to live in Maine,” said Steven Bridges, who married Michael Snel...

Abigail Curtis and Seth Koenig, Bangor Daily News • News •

Saturday, December 29, 2012 at 11:00 am

Iconic career comes to a close for Maine Sen. Olympia Snowe

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Her decision to wear purple was not by design. She wasn't trying to make a political fashion statement. It just worked out that way, she said. "No, you're talking about being a purple state or something," U.S. Sen. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, said on the day of her far...

Scott Thistle, Sun Journal • News •

Friday, December 28, 2012 at 11:20 am

Under close scrutiny, Maine school kitchens get passing grades

PORTLAND — One in six Americans – about 48 million people – get sick from foodborne diseases every year. Worse, 128,000 are hospitalized and 3,000 die. The most vulnerable population: children. Those statistics, the latest available from the U.S. Centers ...

Will Graff • News •

Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Freeport Police Beat: Dec. 27

Arrests 12/18 at 9:20 p.m. Paul E. Lovejoy Jr., 55, of Beacon Street, Somerville, Mass., was arrested on Lower Main Street by Officer Brandon Paxton on a charge of criminal trespass. 12/19 at 11:25 p.m. Teak W. Lee, 21, of Sheridan Street, Portlan...

Police Beat •

Wednesday, December 26, 2012