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The View From Away: Who are you going to believe?

I don’t mind that my wife is smarter than I am. I’ve known since childhood that women are fascinating individually and, collectively, The Borg. You know, from "Star Trek." Hive-like alien collective with a communal mind and the catchphrase, “Resistance is futile.” Y...

Mike Langworthy • Opinion •
Monday, December 24, 2012

Arts Calendar: Dec. 26-Jan. 6

Greater Portland Auditions & Calls for Art Portland Children's Festival is seeking entries to the Young Filmmakers Contest, April 4-7, 2013, open to students in kindergarten through high school from Portland and surrounding comm...

Lifestyle •
Saturday, December 22, 2012

Community Calendar: Dec. 26- Jan. 6

Greater Portland Benefits Greely Hockey Boosters, raffle fundraiser, drawing Jan. 1 at Dudley Cup Tournament, tickets $10 each or 3 for $20, 831-9014. Monday 12/31

Community •
Saturday, December 22, 2012

Cumberland County plan seeks action on energy use

PORTLAND — After two years of work, the Greater Portland Council of Governments and Cumberland County released the county's first ever climate and energy plan last week. GPCOG began an emissions inventory in 2007 to identify the county's major problems. The study looked at how m...

Amber Cronin • News •
Friday, December 21, 2012 at 1:30 pm

Entries sought for citizen, journalist right-to-know awards

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — The New England First Amendment Coalition is introducing a pair of annual awards to recognize private citizens and professional journalists who aggressively advance the people's knowledge of...

• News •
Friday, December 21, 2012 at 12:00 pm

Thomas E. Elliott Jr., 72

WEST BATH — Thomas E. Elliott Jr., 72, died Dec. 14 at Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston. He was born in Boston on Dec. 1, 1940, a son of Thomas E. Sr. and Gloria Martin Elliott. He grew up in Portland and attended St. Dominic’s Sacred Heart School and Cheverus High Scho...

Obituaries •
Friday, December 21, 2012

Ruth M. Currier, 96

BRUNSWICK — Ruth M. Currier, 96, died Dec. 6 at Horizons Living Center. She was born in Greene on April 16, 1916, the daughter of Edward Card and Blanch (Mitchell) Card. After her first birthday, the family moved from Greene to Bowdoin, where she lived on a farm with her parents and ...

Obituaries •
Friday, December 21, 2012

Edmund H. Gibson, 91

BRUNSWICK — Edmund H. Gibson, 91, died Dec. 9 at his home. He was born in Newton, Mass., on Oct. 2, 1921, the son of Alec and Ethel Cary Gibson. He graduated from Watertown High School, Lawrence Academy and Bates College. He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II. ...

Obituaries •
Friday, December 21, 2012

John Thomas Riley Horgan, 26

BRUNSWICK — John “Jake” Thomas Riley Horgan, 26, formerly of Stowe Lane, Brunswick, died Dec. 6 at his home in Olympia, Wash. He was born Nov. 10, 1986, in Boston, the son of Matthew D. Horgan, of Bath, and Patricia L. Riley, of Brunswick.    Horgan atten...

Obituaries •
Friday, December 21, 2012

Eleanor S. Parody, 80

BRUNSWICK — Eleanor S. Parody, 80, died Dec. 11 at her home. She was born in New York City and graduated from Bryant High School in Queens in 1949.  She worked as a medical secretary at New York Hospital, and later as secretary for the head of the chemical engineering department at the...

• Obituaries •
Friday, December 21, 2012
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