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Arts Calendar Feb. 20 - March 5

Greater Portland Auditions/Calls for Art Sunday 3/3 Portland School of Ballet CORPS Program, 1:30-4:30 p.m., Portland Ballet Studios, 517 Forest Ave., Portland, 772-9671, $20 audition fee. Books & Authors Friday 2/22 Friday Local Author Series: Rick H... Greater Portland Auditio...

Lifestyle •
Monday, February 18, 2013 at 2:10 pm

Community Calendar Feb. 20 - March 5

Greater Portland Bulletin Board Tuesday 2/26 Indoor yard sale & bake sale, 9 a.m., American Legion Post 35, 413 Broadway, South Portland, 799-3997. Wednesda...

Community •
Monday, February 18, 2013 at 1:50 pm

The Universal Notebook: Grampy reads 'Gumpy'

One of the great joys of having grandchildren – three and counting – is that I get to read to little kids again. Our living-room bookcase is stuffed with board books, picture books, and chapter books going back to our oldest daughter’s infancy more than 30 years ago. Come to thi...

Edgar Allen Beem • Opinion •
Monday, February 18, 2013 at 12:30 pm

The View From Away: A moth to the flame of Facebook

I am psyching myself up to reactivate Facebook. I left during the run-up to the election because it was becoming increasingly aggravating and a massive time suck. I couldn’t stop myself from trying to inject some reason into threads about why Obama or Romney was a minion of Satan, and the n...

Mike Langworthy • Opinion •
Monday, February 18, 2013 at 12:00 pm

Letter: Beem is wrong about health-care competition

In his column "Nothing healthy about health insurance," Edgar Allem Beem pontificates that "health care, like education, ...

• Opinion •
Monday, February 18, 2013 at 8:40 am

Editorial: Information doesn't kill people

Every document and every meeting at all levels of Maine government – state, county and municipal – are public unless there is a specific exception written in statute that shields the document or makes a meeting confidential. If there’s no exception, the public h...

• Opinion •
Sunday, February 17, 2013 at 10:20 am

Frances E. Gardner, 77

BRUNSWICK — Frances E. Gardner, 77, of Brunswick, died Monday at her home, surrounded by family. She was born Aug. 16, 1935, in Brunswick to Frederick and Mertie Shepard. She was educated in Brunswick schools and graduated from Brunswick High School with the class of 1...

Obituaries •
Friday, February 15, 2013

Sylvanus "Sly" Moore, 75

BATH — Sylvanus "Sly" Moore, 75, of Bath, died Feb. 8 from complications of mesothelioma. He was born Nov. 1, 1937, in Bath to John and Mabel Moore. He grew up working the waters of Maine as a clam digger and sea moss harvester and later went on to run Moore's M...

Obituaries •
Friday, February 15, 2013

Mid-Coast Meetings: Feb. 15-21

Brunswick Tue.  2/19  1 p.m.  Recreation, Trails and Open Space  Rec-7 Front Gate (Brunswick Landing Conservation Area) Tue.  2/19  7 p.m.  Planning Board  BS Wed.  2/20  3 p.m. Audit Committee  Hawthor...

Community •
Friday, February 15, 2013

Edmund J. Viel, 85

BRUNSWICK — Edmund J. Viel, 85, of Brunswick, died Feb. 5 with his family by his side. He was born June 14, 1927, in Stockholm to Isadore and Delina Viel. He grew up there and attended Stockholm schools. Viel left school at an early age to work as a lumberjack with his father....

Obituaries •
Friday, February 15, 2013
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