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N. Yarmouth farm to host annual 'Sleigh Day,' sleigh exhibit

NORTH YARMOUTH — Skyline Farm will hold its 14th annual "Sleigh Day" on Sunday, Feb. 10, along with "Amazing Sleighs," its new museum exhibit. Sleigh Day will run from noon to 3 p.m. at the 95 The Lane farm. Admission is $8, or $30 a family, and includes a sleigh ride from J.L. Gray ...

Alex Lear • News •
Monday, January 28, 2013 at 3:40 pm

Out & About: Brown, BAND Band, Beachams and Beethoven

The second letter of the alphabet provides the common theme for four of this week’s picks of the tix. Otherwise, it’s a fairly disparate lineup. Fiddler Erica Brown is riding at the top of the Pine Tree State’s traditional music scene these days. The Maine Arts Commission...

Scott Andrews • Lifestyle •
Monday, January 28, 2013 at 3:00 pm

Abby's Road: A marriage of opposites

As I was sitting down to write this, my husband began dancing a gleeful jig around our kitchen. Not because he knew I was going to be occupied for the next hour or so (actually, that may have been part of it), but because he’d had a breakthrough. He knew how he was going to use the e...

Abby Diaz • Opinion •
Monday, January 28, 2013 at 12:00 pm

The Universal Notebook: Why Maine needs ranked-choice voting

A recent Public Policy Polling poll suggests that if a three-way race for governor were held today, Gov. Paul LePage, with a solid 37 percent of the vote, would beat any Democratic candidate and independent Eliot Cutler. In a head-to-head race, the poll found that just about any Democrat wins.

Edgar Allen Beem • Opinion •
Monday, January 28, 2013 at 11:40 am

Global Matters: The French collection

There are better ways to spend a Sunday afternoon in Paris than making an impromptu visit to the emergency room in a public hospital, but that’s what I did a few weeks ago following an altercation with a chair at a restaurant in the Marais. I really ought to come up with a better sto...

Perry B. Newman • Opinion •
Monday, January 28, 2013 at 11:20 am

Forecaster Forum: As policy, LePage budget plan is 'fundamentally dishonest'

I love Yarmouth as a community and Maine as the greatest state in the country. And, I’m sure that residents and community leaders throughout our state feel the same way about their towns and cities. But, in my opinion, local municipalities are under attack. Not from the outside, but ...

Steve Woods • Opinion •
Monday, January 28, 2013 at 11:00 am

Letter: Marcoux's experience wasn't unique

I have never seen a stronger, more courageous piece of opinion in your paper than Dana Marcoux sharing his 1970s experience ("'Out' in Maine:...

• Opinion •
Monday, January 28, 2013 at 10:20 am

Letter: New taxes won't prevent gun violence

I am writing this in response to Edgar Allen Beem’s most recent column, “It’s time to tax guns, ammo.” Mr. Beem’s diatribe proves that he has lost all common sense and confirms that he is in the group of people that have no clue as to what they are speaking about whe...

• Opinion •
Monday, January 28, 2013 at 10:10 am

Cumberland Police Beat: Jan. 24

Arrests 1/16 at 6:47 p.m. Colby T. Carr, 23, of Winter Street, Topsham, was arrested on Whitney Road by Officer Chris Woodcock on an outstanding warrant from another agency. Summonses 1/10 at 9:32 p.m. Sa...

Police Beat •
Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Northern School Notebook

Local students make college dean's lists Karen Bitan, Falmouth, Natalie Hench, Freeport, David Olshan, Yarmouth, and Christine Ordway, Falmouth, Cornell University; Alicia Hoffman, Cumberland, Beloit College; Samuel Mercer and Emily Wilner, Falmouth, Champlain College; Alyssa C. McE...

• Community •
Wednesday, January 23, 2013
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