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Foreign trade zone status for Brunswick seen as economic boost for former Navy base

BRUNSWICK — The town has been deemed a foreign trade zone by the U.S. Department of Commerce Foreign-Trade Zone Board, according to members of Maine’s congressional delegation. The Midcoast Regional Redevelopment Authority, which is overseeing the conversion of the former Bruns...

Christopher Cousins, Bangor Daily News • News •
Tuesday, September 18, 2012 at 2:30 pm

Falmouth trail work brings together users, Bowdoin students

FALMOUTH — A group of nearly 30 volunteers took to the trails this weekend to ensure residents have access to some of the highest quality trails in the area. Eight groups, led by Falmouth residents, spent three hours Saturday cleaning up and improving the trails in the Blackstra...

Amber Cronin • News •
Tuesday, September 18, 2012 at 11:30 am

Police: Suspects stole IDs, drained bank accounts, read The Forecaster

LEWISTON — A man and a woman making their way down the Eastern Seaboard are draining bank accounts by stealing identities and bank information from motor vehicles, police said. Authorities in New Jersey traced the suspects to Maine after seeing the front page of The Forecaster weekly...

Christopher Williams, Sun Journal • News •
Tuesday, September 18, 2012 at 9:50 am

Cumberland County Fair adds free parking to traditional lures

CUMBERLAND — Free parking this year joins the list of reasons to visit the 141st year of farm-centric fun at the Cumberland County Fair. The event runs Sunday, Sept. 23, through Saturday, Sept. 29, at the Cumberland Fairgrounds on Blanchard Road. After you've parked for free, ...

Alex Lear • News •
Tuesday, September 18, 2012 at 8:00 am

Letter: Candidate: Don't cut funding for healthy Maine

In 1998 a settlement between the tobacco industry and 46 states helped create the Fund for a Healthy Maine. During the 125th Legislature, cuts for this program of $11 million were part of the supplemental budget. Part of these cuts included $2.7 million to fund prevention programs in schools. The...

• Opinion •
Monday, September 17, 2012

The Universal Notebook: King in a landslide

You’ve got to hand it to Republicans. They can’t govern their way out of a paper bag, but they sure are masters of dirty tricks. It’s just amazing how often GOP campaign strategists have resorted to underhanded techniques. Let’s see, there was the swift-boating of J...

Edgar Allen Beem • Opinion •
Monday, September 17, 2012

The View From Away: Do I miss L.A.? Well ...

A friend from my television days wrote recently. She is a former network executive who fled north to Big Sur a few years before I emigrated to the East. She asked if I still liked living in Maine and if I missed L.A. and making money writing for television and that life. She got me thinkin...

Mike Langworthy • Opinion •
Monday, September 17, 2012

Mid-Coast Meetings: Sept. 14-20

Brunswick

Community •
Friday, September 14, 2012

Scott Alan McNeill, 56

BRUNSWICK — Scott Alan McNeill, 56, died Aug. 31 after a short battle with lung cancer. He was born in Bath on Nov. 22, 1955, to the late Gerald P. McNeill and Marlene (Christopher) McNeill.  McNeill graduated from Morse High School, class of 1974. In August that year, he e...

Obituaries •
Friday, September 14, 2012

Leslie C. Shaw, 57: A lasting legacy

BRUNSWICK — Leslie C. Shaw, 57, died Aug. 29 from complications following surgery at Maine Medical Center in Portland. Born on July 8, 1955, in Washington, D.C., she was the daughter of John and Ann Shaw.

Obituaries •
Friday, September 14, 2012
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