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Policy Wonk: Concrete alternatives to the LePage budget

As this column was about to go to press, a bi-partisan group of legislators led by Sen. Richard Woodbury, U-Yarmouth, released a bold proposal to reform state taxes and tax expenditures. There is a lot to like in the bi-partisan reforms, but some provisions will almost certai...

Orlando Delogu • Opinion •
Monday, May 6, 2013 at 10:50 am

Abby's Road: My son explains it all

My son is almost 19 months old. Recently, he was trying to bite my kneecap as I bent down to put away some folded laundry. I turned to him and I said: “Son, what is up?” This was his answer: “What is up? You are up. The stairs are up. The kitchen stools are up. I l...

• Opinion •
Monday, May 6, 2013 at 10:20 am

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
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