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Arts Calendar: Sept. 26-Oct.7

Greater Portland Auditions/call for art Bizarre Masquerade Bazaar, call for masks, drop off Oct. 1-3, The Art Department, 611 Congress St., Portland, the.art.department.me@gmail.com Books & Authors

Lifestyle •
Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Community Calendar: Sept. 26- Oct. 7

Greater Portland Benefits Beards B-cause, participants grow beards from September to March to benefit the Cancer Community Center, visit MyStacheFightsCancer.com, beardsbcause@gmail.com.  Coffee by Design

Community •
Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Construction begins on commuter routes in Scarborough

SCARBOROUGH — Less than a month after winning the contract, Gorham-based R.J. Grondin & Sons has started overhauling the Dunstan Corner intersections of Route 1 and Broadturn, Pine Point and Payne roads. Work began Monday on a $2.7 million project to extend the southbound left tu...

David Harry • News •
Monday, September 24, 2012 at 2:50 pm

S. Portland schools seek public input on planning

SOUTH PORTLAND — The School Department invites the public to a strategic planning forum from 6:30-8 p.m., Oct. 3, at the South Portland Community Center on Nelson Road. The department is seeking public input in the development of a 10-year comprehensive strategic plan directing schoo...

News •
Monday, September 24, 2012 at 2:40 pm

No Sugar Added: May the (work)force be with you

My middle teenager began his foray into the workforce this past summer, and on my weekly excursions to fetch him from his job, somewhere between 11 p.m. and midnight, I’ve had plenty of time to reminisce about my own teenage employment adventures. I mean, do we ever forget our first ...

Sandi Amorello • Opinion •
Monday, September 24, 2012 at 10:50 am

Landmarks advocates list Portland, South Portland 'Places in Peril'

PORTLAND — From an island in Portland Harbor to a stop on the Underground Railroad, seven historic area sites "are in danger of being irreparably altered or destroyed," preservation advocacy group Greater Portland Landmarks said Sept. 20. "These properties help define greater Po...

William Hall • News •
Monday, September 24, 2012 at 10:30 am

Unsung Hero: Edith Aronson, bringing educational vision to Freeport

FREEPORT — Edith Aronson, the daughter of a successful international businessman, grew up in a world of privilege. She lived in London and New York, was educated at elite independent schools, and graduated from Harvard with a history major. “We had a close family with a ...

David Treadwell • News •
Monday, September 24, 2012 at 9:50 am

The Universal Notebook: The rich versus the rest of us

Mitt Romney is so out of touch with the lives of everyday Americans that he thinks middle income means people who earn between $200,000 and $250,000. My guess is he is so far off simply because he doesn’t know anyone who earns such a paltry sum. And he can’t begin to imagine ho...

Edgar Allen Beem • Opinion •
Monday, September 24, 2012 at 9:40 am

Global Matters: Don't let the political sleaze-mongers take Maine

It pains me to say it, but something fundamental has changed in Maine. The muck and mire of gutter politics has traversed the Piscataqua River, oozed its way up Interstate 95 and settled brazenly into our political discourse. Today, even in Maine, candidates must overcome not only their ba...

Perry B. Newman • Opinion •
Monday, September 24, 2012 at 9:20 am

Forecaster Forum: Say no to discrimination and yes to marriage equality

When I was 8 years old (circa 1960), my family took a vacation trip to Washington, D.C., and Williamsburg, Va. I have many fond memories of that trip, but the incident that sticks in my mind more than 50 years later is not so fond. We were in a public facility somewhere in Virginia –...

Russell Anderson • Opinion •
Monday, September 24, 2012 at 8:50 am
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