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Mid-Coast heating assistance high on demand, low on supply

BRUNSWICK — Heating assistance programs are struggling to meet the demand from households that need help. Maria Hinteregger, who as associate director of community impact for United Way of Mid Coast Maine helps compile a list of heating assistance programs in the Mid-Coast area, call...

Dylan Martin • News •
Wednesday, January 30, 2013 at 12:20 pm

RSU 1 sets March 19 referendum on cost formula

By Alex Lear BATH — Regional School Unit 1 will hold a district-wide referendum March 19 on a new cost-sharing formula. The RSU 1 Board of Directors, which unanimously adopted the new plan last month, set the referendum date Monday. Public meetings on the matter will be he...By Alex Lear

Alex Lear • News •
Wednesday, January 30, 2013 at 11:50 am

Former Topsham selectmen candidate charged again with drunken driving

BRUNSWICK — Jean Wolkens, a former Topsham Board of Selectmen candidate who was charged with operating under the influence four days before the election earlier this month, was charged with OUI again Monday in a separate incident. Wolkens, 43, of Meadow Road, Topsham, was arrested ea...

Alex Lear • News •
Tuesday, January 29, 2013 at 2:30 pm

Cape Elizabeth lawyer's judicial nomination back on track

PORTLAND — The second time may be the charm for William Kayatta Jr., the Cape Elizabeth lawyer renominated to the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit. U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, Tuesday announced the Senate Judiciary Committee will reconsider Kayatta's nomination...

David Harry • News •
Tuesday, January 29, 2013 at 9:50 am

Arts Calendar Jan. 30 - Feb. 12

Greater Portland Books & Authors Thursday 1/31 Brown Bag Lecture Series: "The Words I Chose: A Memoir of Family and Poetry," 12 p.m., Portland Public Library, 5 Monument Square, Portland, 871-1700.

Lifestyle •
Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Community Calendar Jan. 30 - Feb. 12

Greater Portland Benefits Friday 2/1 Fair Trade Fundraiser for UNICEF. 11 a.m.-6 p.m., Karma Fair Trade,  570 Brighton Ave., Portland, 831...

Community •
Tuesday, January 29, 2013

People & Business

Grants The Curtis Memorial Library in Brunswick received a $3,000 grant from the Margaret E. Burnham Charitable Trust of Portland. The money will expand the graphic novel collection for young adult readers at the library. All purchases will be made locally through Casablan...

• Community •
Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Out & About: Brown, BAND Band, Beachams and Beethoven

The second letter of the alphabet provides the common theme for four of this week’s picks of the tix. Otherwise, it’s a fairly disparate lineup. Fiddler Erica Brown is riding at the top of the Pine Tree State’s traditional music scene these days. The Maine Arts Commission...

Scott Andrews • Lifestyle •
Monday, January 28, 2013 at 3:00 pm

Abby's Road: A marriage of opposites

As I was sitting down to write this, my husband began dancing a gleeful jig around our kitchen. Not because he knew I was going to be occupied for the next hour or so (actually, that may have been part of it), but because he’d had a breakthrough. He knew how he was going to use the e...

Abby Diaz • Opinion •
Monday, January 28, 2013 at 12:00 pm

The Universal Notebook: Why Maine needs ranked-choice voting

A recent Public Policy Polling poll suggests that if a three-way race for governor were held today, Gov. Paul LePage, with a solid 37 percent of the vote, would beat any Democratic candidate and independent Eliot Cutler. In a head-to-head race, the poll found that just about any Democrat wins.

Edgar Allen Beem • Opinion •
Monday, January 28, 2013 at 11:40 am
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