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A decade of bridge support

Runners break from the starting line Sunday at the 10th-anniversary 5k run to support the Androscoggin Swinging Bridge. With 99 people registered, it was the largest turnout ever for the race, which supports maintenance of the historic footbridge between Topsham and Brunswick, and a new riverwalk...

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Wednesday, April 17, 2013 at 1:40 pm

Brunswick School Board backs 6.5% budget hike

BRUNSWICK — With charter schools on their minds, School Board members are recommending a 6.5 percent increase in the next school budget. The board voted 7-1 for a $35.7 million budget for fiscal year 2014 at its April 11 meeting. Members expressed concern about maintaining qua...

Dylan Martin • News •
Wednesday, April 17, 2013 at 11:10 am

Brunswick event to mark World Tai Chi Day

BRUNSWICK — A free, public event on April 27 will mark the 10th year of World Tai Chi Day. The celebration begins at 10 a.m. at the Walker Art Museum Quad at Bowdoin College, 245 Main St. Visitors will be able to participate in one hour of instruction from practitioner Ken Ryan of Ma...

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Wednesday, April 17, 2013 at 9:00 am

Longtime marathon starter from Yarmouth: 'Perfect day' turns tragic

YARMOUTH — Rosalie Baker-Brown fired the starting gun at the Boston Marathon on Monday, something she's done many times since the mid-1990s. Now 85, Baker-Brown has been intimately involved in the race for decades. She grew up in Hopkinton, Mass., where the marathon begins, and marri...

Will Graff • News •
Tuesday, April 16, 2013 at 12:10 pm

Museums mark Maine's 'special connection' to Civil War

PORTLAND — The Civil War may seem the dusty stuff of history textbooks. But 152 years after it began the impact of the war is felt even today. The country has been marking the 150th anniversary of the war since 2011. But much of the remembrance is taking place this year, the sesquice...

William Hall • News •
Tuesday, April 16, 2013 at 10:10 am

Arts Calendar, April 17-30

Greater Portland Books & Authors Wednesday 4/17 “A Poet’s Sourcebook,” Dawn Potter, 12 p.m., Portland Public Library, 5 Monument Square, Portland, 871-1700 ext. 723. Satur...

Lifestyle •
Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Community Calendar, April 17-30

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 ...

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Tuesday, April 16, 2013

People & Business

Events The Portland Regional Chamber is presenting its annual Greater Portland Business Expo April 24 at the Holiday Inn By the Bay, 88 Spring St., Portland, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The Expo and educational seminars are free and open to the public. Admission to the keynote ...

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Tuesday, April 16, 2013

UPDATE: Mainers describe 'surreal' scene after Boston Marathon blasts

BOSTON — Two bombs exploded on packed streets Monday near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, something a Mainer who witnessed the explosions described as "surreal" and "like a movie." Casey Pola, a graduate of Mt. Ararat High School in Topsham who now works on and lives near Boy...

Will Graff • News •
Monday, April 15, 2013 at 9:20 pm

Southwest Airlines launches Portland service

PORTLAND — Southwest Airlines marked the start of service at Portland International Jetport with a news conference Monday morning, and celebrated by flying a young girl and her family to San Diego as a charitable gift through the Make-A-Wish Foundation. "Having Southwest service in g...

William Hall • News •
Monday, April 15, 2013 at 3:00 pm
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