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Out & About: ‘Phyzgig,' ‘Beauty and the Beast’ top choices

As the Christmas-New Year holiday period approaches, most performing artists do what everyone else does: Head home and take a break with the family. There’s a marked slowdown in the performing arts between Christmas and late January. So “Out & About” takes its annual ...

Scott Andrews • Lifestyle •
Monday, December 17, 2012 at 11:30 am

Unsung Hero: Nancy Marshall of Cape Elizabeth, giving lasting gifts

CAPE ELIZABETH — Shortly after Nancy Marshall was diagnosed with stage 3 lung cancer in 1997, her oncologist told her, “There will come a time when you will serve as an example to other people who are struggling with cancer.” His words proved most prophetic. But fi...

David Treadwell • News •
Monday, December 17, 2012 at 10:40 am

The Universal Notebook: Have yourself a cool Christmas

The Christmas gifts of my childhood in the 1950s are lost memories, but I vividly recall the Christmas gifts of my adolescence in the early 1960s because they were invariably the things every teen and pre-teen needed to be cool. Just how coolness managed to be communicated to the youth of ...

Edgar Allen Beem • Opinion •
Monday, December 17, 2012 at 10:10 am

Letter: Newtown another reflection of who we are

Years ago there was a picture in a magazine that showed a piece of moving art. The medium was a large truck that had sheets of polished metal on its sides that acted as mirrors, so that as it drove down city streets, people could see themselves in the reflection. The art was not the truck, but th...

• Opinion •
Monday, December 17, 2012 at 9:20 am

White House cancels Obama visit to Portland

PORTLAND — Just hours after announcing Friday that President Obama would visit Portland this week, White House officials called off those plans in the wake of the shootings in Newtown, Conn. Obama was to speak at the University of Southern Maine on Wednesday about the so-called "fisc...

• News •
Friday, December 14, 2012 at 1:50 pm

Peter C.J. Masse, 73

BRUNSWICK — Peter C.J. Masse, 73, of Weymouth Street, died Dec. 2 at the Hospice House in Auburn. He was born in Brunswick, Sept. 9, 1939, the son of Felix and Claire Caron Masse.   Masse attended St. John’s Parochial School and graduated from Brunswick High School in 1958...

Obituaries •
Friday, December 14, 2012

Mary Miller Soverel, 92

BRUNSWICK — Mary Miller Soverel, 92, of Thornton Way, died Dec. 4. She was born in Montgomery City, Mo., on March 9, 1920, to John Gilmer Miller and Frances Lillian Morris Miller. She graduated from Montgomery City High School, the University of Missouri, and Miss Hickey’s Busi...

Obituaries •
Friday, December 14, 2012

Thomas Cornell, 75: Accomplished artist, professor

BRUNSWICK — Thomas Cornell, 75, artist and the Richard E. Steele Artist-in-Residence Emeritus at Bowdoin College, died on Dec. 7. In June, Cornell retired from teaching after 50 years as a professor at Bowdoin. He joined the faculty in 1962, establishing the visual arts program at th...

Obituaries •
Friday, December 14, 2012

Mid-Coast Meetings: Dec. 14-20

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Community •
Friday, December 14, 2012

Mid-Coast School Notebook

First Quarter Honor Roll The following students were named to the honor roll during the first quarter at Brunswick High School. Grade 9 High Honors: Molly Blaisdell, Calyn Crawford, Elizabeth Day, Anna Deck, Reed Foster, Amelia Hawley, Maya Kosak,...

Community •
Friday, December 14, 2012
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