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Community Calendar: Jan. 9-20

Greater Portland Bulletin Board Friday 1/11

Community •
Monday, January 7, 2013 at 12:00 pm

Arts Calendar: Jan. 9-20

Greater Portland Auditions & Calls for Art Musica de Filia, auditions for several all-female choirs, Jan. 2-22, 550 Forest Ave., Portland, 807-2158. Tuesday 1/15

Lifestyle •
Monday, January 7, 2013 at 11:20 am

Policy Wonk: Corporate welfare in Maine: Alive, well -- and growing

Fourteen years ago, investigative reporters Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele did a lengthy, four-week series for Time magazine that estimated the federal government “shells out $125 billion a year in corporate welfare.” That number is much larger today. Recently, Lo...

Orlando Delogu • Opinion •
Monday, January 7, 2013 at 10:00 am

The Universal Notebook: Peeved at my own incompetence

Nothing puts me in a foul mood faster than something I can’t fix. That means I’m in a fuming funk a lot of the time, not fit to live with until whatever is broken is either repaired or replaced. At the moment it’s the #*(^%$! roof. The roof over my sunroom office has been...

Edgar Allen Beem • Opinion •
Monday, January 7, 2013 at 9:50 am

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

Mid-Coast Meetings: Jan. 4-10

Bath

Community •
Friday, January 4, 2013

Margaret McAllaster, 84

BRUNSWICK — Margaret (Jean) McAllaster, 84, died Dec. 22 in Brunswick. She was born on April 10, 1928, in Middleton, Tenn., the daughter of George and Mildred Gatewood Crawford.

Obituaries •
Friday, January 4, 2013

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

Artists visit farm life in upcoming Brunswick exhibition

BRUNSWICK — A table might not be the first thing that comes to mind when someone says "agriculture," but for artist Maina Handmaker, it's the center of everything that happens on a family farm. This interpretation of farm life and many others will be on display at Frontier, 14 M...

Dylan Martin • News •
Thursday, January 3, 2013 at 8:00 am
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