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The Universal Notebook: The right-wing attack on Bowdoin College

So a propaganda organization funded by an ultra-right-wing billionaire has determined that Bowdoin College is too liberal for its tastes. That’s news? It is, according to ultra-right-wing Bowdoin grad and retired Portland Press Herald editor M.D. Harmon, who has been dining ou...

Edgar Allen Beem • Opinion •
Monday, April 15, 2013 at 9:30 am

Letter: Citizens deserve to be heard in Augusta

The Legislature used to allow more fairness and less manipulation in their public hearings than they do today. Citizens were asked to leave their name and copies for the committee when testifying, but proponents and opponents were treated fairly as to time allotted. Recently I went to the ...

• Opinion •
Monday, April 15, 2013 at 8:40 am

Northern Meetings: April 11-17

Chebeague Island Tues.  4/16  6:30 p.m.  CISD School Committee  School Tues.  4/16  7:15 p.m.  CICA Housing Committee  PH Wed.  4/17  7:30 p.m.  CIC Board Meeting  PH Cumberland

Community •
Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Cumberland Police Beat: April 11

Arrests 3/31 at 8:44 p.m. Jonathan Coyne, 20, of Pond Shore Drive, was arrested on an outstanding warrant from another by Officer David Young on Blanchard Road. 3/31 at 6:59 p.m. Joseph Hamilton, 27, of Sunset Ridge, was arrested by...

Police Beat •
Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Northern School Notebook: April 11

Yarmouth High School honor roll The following students have made the honor roll during the second quarter at Yarmouth High School. Grade 12 High Honors: Carolyn Adams, Samuel Beaulieu, Sarah Becker, Izik Dery, Sophia Emmons, Claire Fouchereaux, McKe...

Community •
Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Rhea McLean, 83

YARMOUTH - Rhea May McLean, 83, of Yarmouth, died March 29. She was born May 29, 1929, in Macon, Ga., the second daughter of Florence Seeley and Leonard Aldridge. The family settled in Maine where she attended North Yarmouth schools. In 1949 she married Gerald DeRoche. The couple ha...

Obituaries •
Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Hilda M. Coskery, 86: Longtime Freeport campground owner

FREEPORT — Hilda M. Coskery, 86, of Freeport, died March 30 at the Halifax Medical Center in Port Orange, Fla. She was born in Freeport on June 24, 1926, the daughter of Victor and Marietta Brewer Coffin. She attended Freeport schools and was a 1944 graduate of Freeport High Sch...

Obituaries •
Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Aquaponics startup outgrows Portland, heads to North Yarmouth

NORTH YARMOUTH — Fish waste is used by plants, which is converted by bacteria into nutrients for plants, which in turn filter clean and oxygenated water to be recirculated back to the fish. It's the circle of life. That's the gist of aquaponics, a symbiotic merging of aquacult...

Alex Lear • News •
Tuesday, April 9, 2013 at 11:30 am

Cumberland changes waste haulers, OKs assistant manager

CUMBERLAND — The Town Council unanimously approved a three-year contract for solid waste and recycling curbside pickup with Waste Management. The decision will reduce the cost of waste removal by approximately $30,000 in fiscal 2014, according to Town Manager Bill Shane. Waste...

Alex Lear • News •
Tuesday, April 9, 2013 at 8:30 am

Wilma Bozak Baldwin, 86: An artistic soul who loved life

PORTLAND — Wilma Bozak Baldwin, 86, of Portland, died March 29. She was born Sept. 19, 1926, in Raven Run, Pa., the daughter of Michael and Anna Bozak. She grew up in Shenandoah, Pa. and graduated from the Philadelphia School of Art. She worked in and loved fashion and design. H...

Obituaries •
Tuesday, April 9, 2013
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