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The Universal Notebook: Eat, drink and feel guilty

When I go to the supermarket these days (and that’s most days), I often find myself thinking, “How in the world can young families afford to put food on the table?” It seems to me that a typical trip to the market used to cost me $20 to $30. Now I’m spending about $50 a po...

Edgar Allen Beem • Opinion •
Monday, September 10, 2012 at 10:20 am

Forecaster Forum: Dreams come true this September

The calendar turn into September has not always seemed significant. As I spent years in Manhattan and Washington, D.C., letting my profession get the better of me, I did not register any changes that could be tied to a new season. The subway was still hot and crowded, I was still working more oft...

Abby Diaz • Opinion •
Monday, September 10, 2012 at 9:50 am

Letter: Require online retailers to collect sales tax

I own Johnson’s Sporting Goods, in Brunswick, Portland and Rockland, and I am fed up with subsidized and predatory pricing of online competitors who don’t collect sales tax. Our elected leaders should close this loophole. Local shops are the heart and soul of communities across...

• Opinion •
Monday, September 10, 2012 at 9:00 am

Mid-Coast Meetings: Sept. 7-13

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Community •
Friday, September 7, 2012

Joan Brewer, 88

BRUNSWICK — Joan Brewer, 88, died Aug. 28 at Mid Coast Hospital. She was born in Middletown, Conn., Feb. 1, 1924, the daughter of Arnold and Cornelia Dodd Brewer. She grew up in Ridgefield, Conn., where she loved riding horses. Brewer graduated from Chatham Hall in Virginia in 1941, ...

Obituaries •
Friday, September 7, 2012

Patricia A. St. Pierre, 78

BRUNSWICK — Patricia A. St. Pierre, 78, died Aug. 28 at Mid Coast Senior Health Center after a short illness. She was born March 6, 1934 in Freeport, a daughter of Kenneth R. and Florence M. (Brett) Gould. She was educated in Freeport schools.

Obituaries •
Friday, September 7, 2012

Lena C. Swindler, 79

BRUNSWICK — Lena C. Swindler, 79, died after a long illness Aug. 29 at home with her daughter by her side.

Obituaries •
Friday, September 7, 2012

Snub fuels Brunswick vote to end tax shelters for base redevelopment agency

BRUNSWICK — Negotiations for tax-shelter agreements between the town and the Midcoast Regional Redevelopment Authority – governed by the state's Tax Increment Financing laws – were terminated Tuesday night by an 8-1 vote of the Town Council. Town Manager Gary Br...

Dylan Martin and Chris Cousins, Bangor Daily News • News •
Thursday, September 6, 2012 at 8:30 am

Brunswick to begin talks on police station land swap

BRUNSWICK — The town will begin negotiations to acquire the land proposed for a future police station after the Town Council voted 6-3 for the action on Tuesday night. Councilors John Perreault, Bennet Pols and Sarah Brayman were opposed. The negotiations with the Brunswick De...

Dylan Martin • News •
Thursday, September 6, 2012 at 8:20 am

Brunswick Police Beat: Sept. 7

Arrests 8/29 at 5:03 p.m. Christopher F. Koch, 25, of Winterberry Lane, Harpswell, was arrested at Merrymeeting Plaza by Officer Julie Gillespie on a charge of operating under the influence.

Police Beat •
Thursday, September 6, 2012
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