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The View From Away: Even in Canada, the break room is a battleground

It’s finally sinking in that I'm in Toronto for a real job, with a workday, coworkers and an office. The people are nice. The office environment is friendly. I’m still getting used to showing up at the same place every day and being on time, but it is almost liberating to have ...

Mike Langworthy • Opinion •
Monday, April 15, 2013 at 11:40 am

The Universal Notebook: The right-wing attack on Bowdoin College

So a propaganda organization funded by an ultra-right-wing billionaire has determined that Bowdoin College is too liberal for its tastes. That’s news? It is, according to ultra-right-wing Bowdoin grad and retired Portland Press Herald editor M.D. Harmon, who has been dining ou...

Edgar Allen Beem • Opinion •
Monday, April 15, 2013 at 9:30 am

Letter: Citizens deserve to be heard in Augusta

The Legislature used to allow more fairness and less manipulation in their public hearings than they do today. Citizens were asked to leave their name and copies for the committee when testifying, but proponents and opponents were treated fairly as to time allotted. Recently I went to the ...

• Opinion •
Monday, April 15, 2013 at 8:40 am

Brunswick man arrested in Freeport in connection with several business burglaries

FREEPORT — Police arrested a Brunswick man April 10 and charged him with several burglaries at area businesses. Willis L. Jordan III was arrested at about 9:30 a.m. at a residence on Litchfield Road in connection with burglaries in Freeport, Yarmouth and Brunswick, Police Department ...

Will Graff • News •
Friday, April 12, 2013 at 2:10 pm

Mid-Coast Meetings: April 12-18

Brunswick Tues.  4/16  3:30 p.m.  CIP Committee  MB Wed.  4/17  6 p.m.  Appointments Subcommittee  MB Wed.  4/17  7 p.m.  Recreation Commission  BS Thur.  4/18  6 p.m.  Bicycl...

Community •
Friday, April 12, 2013

Edward Eric Butler, 90

BRUNSWICK — Edward Eric Butler, 90, died Monday at his home on Casco Bay in Brunswick, surrounded by his three children and his faithful dog, Caddy. He was born Aug. 18, 1922, in Cambridge, Mass., to James Percival Butler and Katherine Elinor O’Donnell Butler. Following hi...

Obituaries •
Friday, April 12, 2013

Herman J. Boudreau, 93

BRUNSWICK — Herman J. Boudreau, 93, died peacefully Sunday after a brief illness, surrounded by his family. He was born in Waterville Jan. 20, 1920, to Richard and Lucie Boudreau of Waterville, and attended local schools there. As a teenager, he worked as a lumberjack, hauling l...

Obituaries •
Friday, April 12, 2013

Julie A. Freeman, 52: Always lent a helping hand

PHIPPSBURG — Julie A. Freeman, 52, died peacefully April 2 after a courageous battle with cancer, surrounded by her loving family. She was born Nov. 17, 1960, in Portland, the daughter of William and Julia Sprague. She moved to Machias with her family in 1977, graduating from Ma...

Obituaries •
Friday, April 12, 2013

LePage: No decision on minimum wage increase

BRUNSWICK — Gov. Paul LePage said Wednesday he hasn’t made a final decision on whether to veto a bill that would raise the state’s minimum wage to $9 by 2016, then boost it annually in proportion with increases in the Consumer Price Index. The bill, LD 611, faces one more...

Whit Richardson and Matthew Stone, Bangor Daily News • News •
Thursday, April 11, 2013 at 8:40 am

Brunswick school budget could increase nearly 6%

BRUNSWICK — Superintendent of Schools Paul Perzanoski is proposing a nearly 6 percent budget increase for fiscal year 2014. The School Board was expected to make a decision on the proposed $35 million budget Thursday night, and will have to send it to the Town Council by April 17.

Dylan Martin • News •
Thursday, April 11, 2013 at 7:50 am
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