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Short Relief: Portland should tap street-corner labor pool

I was relatively lucky to graduate from law school in 1986. The U.S. economy and employment rates were growing. Law firms were expanding and hiring, and increasing the opportunities for all law graduates. I took a job working for the federal government in Washington, D.C. By the early 1990...

Halsey Frank • Opinion •
Monday, May 6, 2013 at 10:00 am

Mid-Coast Meetings: May 3-9

Bath Mon.  5/6  7 p.m.  Zoning Board of Appeals  CH Tues.  5/7  6 p.m.  Planning Board  CH Wed.  5/8  7 p.m.  Forestry Committee  CH Thur.  5/9  4:30 p.m.  Community Developme...

Community •
Friday, May 3, 2013

John Dykstra Eusden, 90: Led a long and thoughtful life

BRUNSWICK — John Dykstra Eusden, 90, of Brunswick, died April 27 after a brief hospital stay. Before moving to the Thornton Oaks retirement community in 2010, Eusden was a 50-year resident of Williamstown, Mass., and a summer resident of Randolph, N.H. He was born in 1922 in Hol...

Obituaries •
Friday, May 3, 2013

Mary B. Hilbert, 77

HARPSWELL — Mary B. Hilbert, 77, of Harpswell, died April 25 after a courageous battle with cancer. She spent her final days under the loving care of her husband, Barry Hilbert, at their home on Bailey Island. Hilbert was born Mary Jeanne Bennett on Sept. 29, 1935, in Thompson F...

Obituaries •
Friday, May 3, 2013

Dennis Harlan Blakemore, 74

BRUNSWICK — Dennis Harlan Blakemore, 74, of Brunswick, died April 24. A retired lieutenant commander in the U.S. Navy, his military career brought Blakemore and his family to Maine nearly 43 years ago. He was passionate about his service, in which he flew in P-3 Orions and finis...

Obituaries •
Friday, May 3, 2013

Camillia Jane Thibodeau, 72

BRUNSWICK — Camellia Jane Thibodeau, 72, of Brunswick, died April 22 at Parkview Hospital in Brunswick. Thibodeau was born July 2, 1940, in Bath, the daughter of Oakley and Helen Clough Thibodeau. She spent her younger years in the Georgetown area and graduated from high school ...

Obituaries •
Friday, May 3, 2013

Despite assurances, Brunswick neighbors remain uneasy about train facility

BRUNSWICK — As construction plans progress for a train layover facility between Church Road and Stanwood Street, a neighborhood group remains opposed to the development...

Dylan Martin • News •
Thursday, May 2, 2013 at 9:00 am

Mid-Coast school chiefs: State report cards an 'incomplete picture' of schools

BRUNSWICK — Public schools in Brunswick, School Administrative District 75 and Regional School Unit 1 received grades ranging from A-D in a new state report card system issued Wednesday. Superintendents from each district responded with various degrees of criticism for the new gradin...

Dylan Martin • News •
Thursday, May 2, 2013 at 8:40 am

Brunswick Police Beat: May 3

Arrests 4/25 at 7:02 a.m. Benjamin Woodin, 19, of Middlesex Road, Topsham, was arrested on Pleasant Street by Officer Julia Gillespie on drugs and narcotics violations. 4/30 at 1:42 p.m. Kristen I. Shipp, 34, of Union Street, was arrested at Union...

Police Beat •
Thursday, May 2, 2013

Brunswick school facilities referendum unlikely this year

BRUNSWICK — Superintendent of Schools Paul Perzanoski on Monday said a proposed $38 million plan to renovate Brunswick Junior High School and Coffin Elementary School is unlikely to go to voters this fall. "I'd be very surprised if we went to referendum this November," Perzanoski sai...

Dylan Martin • News •
Wednesday, May 1, 2013 at 1:50 pm
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