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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

Mildred Viola Bradstreet, 96: A life of ministry

BRUNSWICK — Mildred Viola Bradstreet, 96, died Feb. 6 at her home at Dionne Commons in Brunswick. She was born Feb. 2, 1917, in Blaine, the daughter of Lyle and Annie Van Tassell Beals. She graduated from Aroostook Central Institute in 1935, and from Zion Bible Institute in 1938, ear...

Obituaries •
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

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

Brunswick School Board delays action on 6 contracts

BRUNSWICK — Superintendent of Schools Paul Perzanoski said he was disappointed Wednesday after the School Board tabled a decision on contract extensions for six administrators. Perszanoski said he would let the board know if state law requires it to act sooner than the end of the mon...

Dylan Martin • News •
Thursday, February 14, 2013 at 8:50 am

Brunswick Police Beat: Feb. 15

Arrests 2/4 at 1:24 p.m. Brandon P. Boshea, 21, of Cushing Street, was arrested on Cushing Street by Officer Justin Dolci on charges of theft by unauthorized taking or transfer and violating condition of release. 2/4 at 1:55 p.m. Norman J. Bu...

Police Beat •
Thursday, February 14, 2013
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