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News in Cumberland/North Yarmouth

Northern Meetings: Dec. 27-Jan. 2

Cumberland

People and Business

Awards Christine Bearce, the physical education teacher and assistant principal at Longfellow Elementary School in Portland, has received the highest award for leadership given by the Maine Association for Health, Physical Education, Recre...

Charity behind the gloss for former pageant queen from Freeport

FREEPORT — A 2010 cosmetics start-up is working to foster inner beauty as well as outer beauty, and hopes to become a global force in the fight against drug addiction. Lipgloss4lives was started ...

King looks forward to next session of U.S. Senate

BRUNSWICK — Thirty down, 69 to go. Angus King has his work cut out for him. As you might expect, since his election to the U.S. Senate in November, King has been a busy guy. Last week, the former two-term, independent governor of Maine was counting up the number of other U.S. ...

The Universal Notebook: The (almost) silent treatment

After a brief flirtation with Facebook, I decided last week that the social media site was not useful to me. I deactivated my Facebook page. It was just more aggravation than it was worth, it was wasting my time, and, frankly, I didn’t care for some of the people who popped up on &ld...

The View From Away: Who are you going to believe?

I don’t mind that my wife is smarter than I am. I’ve known since childhood that women are fascinating individually and, collectively, The Borg. You know, from "Star Trek." Hive-like alien collective with a communal mind and the catchphrase, “Resistance is futile.” Y...

Global Matters: New Mayan prophecies discovered! (Don't say we didn't warn you)

A team of archaeologists has revealed the discovery of an artifact of unquestioned historical significance: a confidential memo, apparently from a trusted royal soothsayer and prognosticator to one of the last kings of the Mayan empire. The memo refers to the Mayan calendar’s now dis...

Arts Calendar: Dec. 26-Jan. 6

Greater Portland Auditions & Calls for Art Portland Children's Festival is seeking entries to the Young Filmmakers Contest, April 4-7, 2013, open to students in kindergarten through high school from Portland and surrounding comm...

Community Calendar: Dec. 26- Jan. 6

Greater Portland Benefits Greely Hockey Boosters, raffle fundraiser, drawing Jan. 1 at Dudley Cup Tournament, tickets $10 each or 3 for $20, 831-9014. Monday 12/31

Changes likely to continue in 2013 for North Yarmouth

NORTH YARMOUTH — Last year was a busy one for the 332-year-old town, and 2013 doesn’t look to be much quieter. Votes on a revised charter, as well as the first phase of an economic development plan for the town center, could be on North Yarmouth's horizon this year. A property ...