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News in Cumberland/North Yarmouth

Cape Elizabeth lawyer's judicial nomination back on track

PORTLAND — The second time may be the charm for William Kayatta Jr., the Cape Elizabeth lawyer renominated to the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit. U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, Tuesday announced the Senate Judiciary Committee will reconsider Kayatta's nomination...

Arts Calendar Jan. 30 - Feb. 12

Greater Portland Books & Authors Thursday 1/31 Brown Bag Lecture Series: "The Words I Chose: A Memoir of Family and Poetry," 12 p.m., Portland Public Library, 5 Monument Square, Portland, 871-1700.

Community Calendar Jan. 30 - Feb. 12

Greater Portland Benefits Friday 2/1 Fair Trade Fundraiser for UNICEF. 11 a.m.-6 p.m., Karma Fair Trade,  570 Brighton Ave., Portland, 831...

People & Business

Grants The Curtis Memorial Library in Brunswick received a $3,000 grant from the Margaret E. Burnham Charitable Trust of Portland. The money will expand the graphic novel collection for young adult readers at the library. All purchases will be made locally through Casablan...

Cumberland, Falmouth, Yarmouth to review 2 natural gas proposals

By Alex Lear CUMBERLAND — Two companies have submitted proposals to extend a natural gas pipeline into Cumberland, Falmouth and Yarmouth. Maine Natural Gas and Summit Utilities sent proposals electronically, Cumberland Town Manager Bill Shane said Monday morning. Shane solicited ...By Alex ...

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 ...

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...

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...

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.

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...