News in Freeport

Falmouth gallery seeks children's artwork

FALMOUTH — Submissions for a Children's Art Show at the DaVinci Experience Art Gallery are being accepted now through May 15. The show on May 24 at the 60 Gray Road gallery will include drawings, paintings and mixed media artwork from children ages 4-13. Prizes for each age grou...

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Monday, April 22, 2013 at 11:40 am

Unsung Hero: Jim Mardin of Portland, keeping Maine's military history alive

SOUTH PORTLAND — “June 13, 1944: France. Spent the early morning hours beside vehicles. Many German planes flying around the sky was red with tracers.” Portland resident Jim Mardin was 22 years old when he wrote those words in his log. He and other members of the advanced...

David Treadwell • News •

Monday, April 22, 2013 at 10:50 am

The Universal Notebook: About that well-regulated militia ...

Now that the U.S. Senate has made sure there is no chance that Americans will ever get the gun controls we want and need, I’m sure the victorious gunslingers of America won’t mind a little look back at what the Second Amendment was originally all about. A good buddy – an ...

Edgar Allen Beem • Opinion •

Monday, April 22, 2013 at 9:40 am

Global Matters: Terror in Boston, and the price of prevention

As Boston recovers from the brutal attack on the marathon and the city begins to regain its equilibrium , the eyes of the nation and the attention of Congress will soon turn away from the incident itself and pivot to the so-called “root causes” of terror. We’ll stop seein...

Perry B. Newman • Opinion •

Monday, April 22, 2013 at 9:30 am

Abby's Road: For Boston, a love mash-up

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more splendid and yet more gritty. White snows will blanket the budding trees along the Charles, And fall’s leaves will swirl down thine cobble-stoned streets. Sometime too congested the thoroughfares become,...

Abby Diaz • Opinion •

Monday, April 22, 2013 at 9:20 am

Letter: World is flatter than Delogu believes

If Orlando Delogu is a policy wonk he should know and have read Thomas L. Friedman’s wonderful, thoughtful, intelligent book, "The World is Flat," published in 2005. Friedman, hardly in anyone's view a right-wing conservative, would perhaps agree with some of the assertions Delogu makes in ...

• Opinion •

Monday, April 22, 2013 at 9:00 am

Injured Falmouth High School grad recovering at home after surviving Boston Marathon bomb

FALMOUTH — A Falmouth High School graduate is recovering at her parent's home after she was injured in the Patriot's Day terrorist bombing at the Boston Marathon. The bomb that went off near the finish line on Boylston Street in Boston killed three people and injured more than 170.

Will Graff • News •

Friday, April 19, 2013 at 12:50 pm

Beetles battle invasive bug in Freeport park

FREEPORT — Wolfe's Neck State Park has an unwanted visitor. It's small, white, fluffy and likes trees, specifically hemlocks. So much so, that it kills them. The hemlock woolly adelgid, or HWA, is a tiny cotton ball-looking insect that is attacking hemlock forests along Maine'...

Will Graff • News •

Wednesday, April 17, 2013 at 8:10 am

Freeport Police Beat: April 18

Arrests 4/10 at 9:30 a.m. Willis L. Jordan, III, 35, of Everett Street, Brunswick, was arrested on Litchfield Road by Detective Gino Bianchini on charges of burglary and aggravated criminal mischief. 4/12 at 2:50 p.m. Kenneth Fowler, 50, of Arling...

• Police Beat •

Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Northern Meetings, April 18-24

Chebeague Island Thur. 4/18 7 p.m. ToCI Board Meeting Hall Tues. 4/23 6:30 p.m. CISD School Committee School Tues. 4/23 7:15 p.m. CICA Housing Committee PH Wed. 4/24 7:...

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Wednesday, April 17, 2013