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The View From Away: There's snow end in sight

OK, show of hands: who has shoveled enough snow? Come on, get 'em up. I refuse to believe that I am the only one. And please, no homespun Downeast folk wisdom. “You call this snow? We can still see the windows on our house! Longfellow wrote 'The Song Of Hiawatha' in deeper sno...

Mike Langworthy • Opinion •
Monday, January 7, 2013 at 8:50 am

Unsung Hero: Janet Kandoian, the indomitable 'Miss K'

SOUTH PORTLAND — The year: 1971. The setting: a fourth-grade class at the Willard School. The question from one of the students to the young, new teacher: “Just how old are you, anyway?” Janet Kandoian, known as “Miss K” to many students, well re...

David Treadwell • News •
Friday, January 4, 2013 at 3:20 pm

Paul A. Dube, 70

TOPSHAM — Paul A. Dube, 70, of Foreside Road, died Dec. 27 at Freeport Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. He was born in Brunswick on Feb. 22, 1942, the son of Joseph Dube and Delia Labbe. Dube attended primary school at St. John's and graduated from Brunswick High School. He then served in...

Obituaries •
Friday, January 4, 2013

Mid-Coast Meetings: Jan. 4-10

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Community •
Friday, January 4, 2013

Burnette Bailey Wallace, 99

BATH — Burnette Bailey Wallace, 99, died Dec. 23. She was born on her family's farm in Woolwich on Oct. 3, 1913, the daughter of Bernice Blair Bailey and Franklin Reed Bailey. Wallace attended the one-room Naquassett school and both the old and new Morse high schools. Until the Carlt...

Obituaries •
Friday, January 4, 2013

Timothy Matlack Warren, 89; publisher, veteran

TOPSHAM — Timothy Matlack Warren, 89, died Dec. 21 in Topsham, surrounded by his wife and family.

Obituaries •
Friday, January 4, 2013

Bath council OKs freight shed bricks in new sidewalk

BATH — The City Council gave unanimous consent Wednesday to a proposal from the Bath Freight Shed Alliance to include fundraising bricks in a sidewalk to be constructed along Commercial Street. The alliance plans to donate the bricks to the city, and have them engraved to raise funds...

Alex Lear • News •
Thursday, January 3, 2013 at 7:40 am

Bath Police Beat: Jan. 4

Arrests 12/21 at 11:47 p.m. Robert Lamarre, 42, of Middle Street, was arrested on Leeman Highway by Officer Garrett Olson on a charge of operating under the influence. 12/23 at 1:39 a.m. Alexander McKenna, 20, of Bowman Street, Fa...

Police Beat •
Thursday, January 3, 2013

Topsham Police Beat: Jan. 4

Arrests 12/23 at 2:26 p.m. John Davey, 27, of Pleasant Street, Brunswick, was arrested on Topsham Fair Mall Road by Officer Mark McDonald on charges of operating under the influence of drugs and violating conditions of release. He was also issued a summo...

Police Beat •
Thursday, January 3, 2013

'It's about our future': Same-sex couples make marriage history in Brunswick

BRUNSWICK — Katherine Wilder and Margaret O'Connell first talked about getting married in 2009, but they didn't know how to make that happen until it became a legal possibility in Maine on Dec. 29, 2012. Wilder and O'Connell, accompanied by their dog Blue, were one of the first ...

Dylan Martin • News •
Wednesday, January 2, 2013 at 12:20 pm
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