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News in Yarmouth/Chebeague Island

Dust to dust: Portland-area funeral homes go green

PORTLAND — Some local businesses are helping Maine residents be kinder to the earth when they return to it. New England Green Funerals, a group of four funeral homes that include Jones-Rich-Hutchins Funeral Home on Woodford Street and Lindquist Funeral Home in Yarmouth, began offerin...

Out & About: Maia Sharp, Big Sandy top the bill

May arrives this week with a plethora of sunshine and flowers, plus an equal bounty of arts and entertainment. A superb singer-songwriter and a leading Americana-rockabilly band are two of the top offerings at Portland’s One Longfellow Square. First up is singer-songwriter Maia Sharp...

The Universal Notebook: It's nobody's fault but our own

As America attempts to come to terms with health-care reform, the national debt, immigration reform, climate change and the epidemic of gun violence, the fault lines that threaten a more perfect union are becoming pretty darn obvious. They run along cultural divides, geographic borders, philosoph...

The View From Away: An urge for revenge in the land of the loonie

My coworkers on this TV show, who are almost exclusively Canadian, have been friendly and welcoming. So have the other people I have run across in Toronto, for the most part. One exception occurred at a suburban movie theater, where a woman wheeled on me and said I was standing too close to her i...

Chebeague Island Police Beat: April 25

Arrests No arrests or summonses were reported from April 15-22.

Home-grown toy-store chain expands to Bath

BATH — A business that started in Yarmouth as a home-based online venture in 2001 has now opened its third retail store. Although Anita and Jim Demetropoulos weren't planning to expand Island Treasure Toys, they said they decided to open at 182 Front St. after the landlord appro...

Yarmouth Police Beat: April 25

Arrests 4/18 at 8:44 a.m. Robert N. Wing, 36, of Cumberland Avenue, Portland, was arrested on Maplewood Avenue by Officer Amie Rapa on a charge of misuse of identification, forgery and theft by unauthorized taking or transfer. 4/19 at 1:37 p.m. Ro...

Northern Meetings: April 25

Cumberland Wed.  5/1  7 p.m.  Lands and Conservation Commission  TH Falmouth Thur.  4/25  7 p.m.  Long Range Planning Advisory Committee  TH Tues.  4/30  8 a.m.  Conservation Commi...

Norman E. Morrill, 85

FALMOUTH —  Norman E. Morrill, 85, died Friday at Sedgewood Commons, in Falmouth. He was the loving husband of Doris Morrill. He was born in Concord, N.H., in 1927, the son of Bessie Fenton and Clarence E. Morrill. Morrill graduated from the University of Southern New Ham...

Community Calendar, April 24-May 7

Greater Portland Benefits Thursday 4/25 Faculty Talent Show and Silent Auction, 5:15-8 p.m., King Middle School, 92 Deering Ave., Portland, 874-8140. Friday 4/26 ...