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News in Cumberland/North Yarmouth

Letter: Portland election a model for Maine

I am delighted to see that Will Graff is continuing to report on the important issue of ranked-choice voting as it is taken up by the Legisl...

• Opinion •
Monday, February 18, 2013 at 9:00 am

Letter: Beem is wrong about health-care competition

In his column "Nothing healthy about health insurance," Edgar Allem Beem pontificates that "health care, like education, ...

• Opinion •
Monday, February 18, 2013 at 8:40 am

Letter: Cumberland high school culture needs attention

I was not surprised when Greely basketball players posted photographs of themselves giving the Nazi salute. There is something terribly wrong in the culture of a school when students behave this way; young people do not find their way to bullying and neo-Nazism alone. There is something wr...

• Opinion •
Monday, February 18, 2013 at 8:30 am

Editorial: Information doesn't kill people

Every document and every meeting at all levels of Maine government – state, county and municipal – are public unless there is a specific exception written in statute that shields the document or makes a meeting confidential. If there’s no exception, the public h...

• Opinion •
Sunday, February 17, 2013 at 10:20 am

North School Notebook

Portland school buys land in Cumberland The Friends School of Portland recently purchased 21 acres of land along U.S. Route 1 in Cumberland for the site of its future new home. The building will be built to be environmentally sustainable and the school is working with ...

Community •
Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Bradford Lee Hodgkins, 67

FALMOUTH — Bradford Lee Hodgkins, 67, of Falmouth, died Feb. 6. in Portland. Born in Hancock to Arthur and Beryl McCallum Hodgkins, he attended Sumner High School in Sullivan. Following high school Hodgkins joined the Army, serving in France and in the Vietnam War. He ret...

Obituaries •
Wednesday, February 13, 2013

North Meetings Feb. 14-20

Chebeague Island Wed.  2/20  6 p.m.  Budget Workshop with auditor  TH Cumberland Thur.  2/14  7 p.m.  Board of Adjustments and Appeals  TH Tue.  2/19  7 p.m.  CANCELLED &mdash...

Community •
Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Eleanor Margaret Johnston Goduti, 91

FALMOUTH — Eleanor Margaret Johnston Goduti, 91, of Falmouth, died Feb. 1. She was born Oct. 15, 1921, in Bar Harbor, the daughter of Lawrence and Clara Johnston. She grew up in Bar Harbor, graduating Bar Harbor High School with the class of 1939 and receiving her associate's de...

• Obituaries •
Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Stuart Woodworth McGuire, 84

WEST FALMOUTH — Stuart Woodworth McGuire, 84, died Feb. 1 at the Gosnell Memorial Hospice House in Scarborough. Born Dec. 29, 1928, in Malden, Mass., he was the youngest of three sons of Lee Wesley and Ethel Wienes McGuire.  He went to high school at Malden High Scho...

Obituaries •
Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Cumberland Police Beat: Feb. 14

Arrests 2/3 at 12:30 a.m. Anthony Bullentini, 43, of Yarmouth Road, Gray, was arrested by Officer Antonio Ridge on Gray Road on charges of operating under the influence and violation of conditions of release. 2/3 at 8:27 p.m. Mich...

Police Beat •
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
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