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  • Yarmouth Latchstring winners passionate about schools, children, art, libraries

    YARMOUTH — When Mary and Charles Callanan were invited to their neighbor's house for dessert and to watch a high school baseball award ceremony on cable television, they did not think anything was out of the ordinary. But as they settled in to watch the ceremony, they realized a Town Council mee...

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    Tuesday, June 16, 2009 at 12:50 pm

  • Yarmouth Town Council, School Committee leaders named

    YARMOUTH — The Town Council and School Committee last week welcomed new and returning members and elected new leaders.

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    Tuesday, June 16, 2009 at 12:30 pm

  • Fatal Feb. crash caused by nurse's morphine use

    CUMBERLAND — Maine State Police say a driver who died in a February car accident on Interstate 295 had an extremely high level of morphine in her blood. After an investigation into the crash, driver Rosalie Muce, 32, of Portland, was found to have had near-lethal levels of morphin... 1

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    Tuesday, June 16, 2009 at 12:20 pm

  • Navy secretary sets optimistic tone in visit to BIW

    BATH — One day shy of his first month on the job, Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus spent his first trip outside of Washington, D.C., Monday touring Bath Iron Works and the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery. The visit came on the heels of recent announcements of 125 temporary l...

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    Tuesday, June 16, 2009 at 12:00 pm

  • Connor completes purchase of Portland daily

    PORTLAND — A Pennsylvania newspaper publisher is the new owner of the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram and two other former Blethen Maine daily newspapers, as well as the Mainetoday.com Web site and several weekly publications. Richard L. Connor, the editor and publishe...

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    Tuesday, June 16, 2009 at 11:20 am

  • Portland schools open dialog on 'institutional racism'

    PORTLAND — Members of the NAACP and Maine Civil Liberties Union met with school leaders last week to discuss the role of privilege and power in institutional racism. The workshop began with the film, "A Class Divided," about a third-grade teacher's provocative lesson o...

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    Tuesday, June 16, 2009 at 11:00 am

  • Portland to hire energy coordinator, sell former Rec Dept. building

    PORTLAND — The city will spend $168,000 of its most recent federal stimulus funding to hire an energy and sustainability coordinator. The new, three-year position will be responsible for educating employees in energy efficiency as it applies to municipal buildings and operations; ...

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    Tuesday, June 16, 2009 at 10:50 am

  • After 37 years, Clifford School principal retires

    PORTLAND — Nathan Clifford Elementary School's principal for the last 27 years is retiring at the end of the school year. Marysue Morrison said a variety of factors contributed to the timing of her retirement, including the district's early retirement incentive, offered earlier t...

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    Tuesday, June 16, 2009 at 9:40 am
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