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Family business seminar in South Portland

SOUTH PORTLAND — More than 80 percent of Maine's businesses are family-owned. Buying, selling or passing these businesses on are the topics of a forum beginning at 8 a.m. Oct. 25 at the Marriott at Sable Oaks.

News •
Tuesday, October 16, 2012 at 9:30 am

Maine's public access ombudsman expects to be busy

FREEPORT — Public access and freedom of information advocates have long been calling for the appointment of an official to help the public navigate Maine's freedom of access laws. They got their wish in the last legislative session when two bills passed, fully funding the state's fir...

Will Graff • News •
Tuesday, October 16, 2012 at 8:30 am

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Community •
Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Out & About: 'Good People' opens season at Good Theater in Portland

Drama, music and dance are all represented in this week’s picks of the tix in southern Maine. Under the rubric of drama there’s the New England premiere of David Lindsay-Abaire’s “Good People,” the season-opening show at Portland’s Good Theater. And &ldq...

Scott Andrews • Lifestyle •
Monday, October 15, 2012 at 3:00 pm

The Universal Notebook: A clear choice in Maine Senate District 11

The race for the District 11 state Senate seat has gotten a great deal more publicity than local races usually get, in large part because there is such a contrast between the two candidates. Incumbent Sen. Dick Woodbury, U-Yarmouth, is a professorial economist. The only independent in the ...

Edgar Allen Beem • Opinion •
Monday, October 15, 2012 at 2:30 pm

The View From Away: 90 years of making everyone's life better

My mother-in-law, Annette Molar, turned 90 on Oct. 2. The following weekend we joined much of the extended family in her hometown, Columbus, Ohio, to help celebrate this milestone. Carol’s sister, Marilyn, and her husband, Alan, were the local hosts. They couldn’t have been mor...

Mike Langworthy • Opinion •
Monday, October 15, 2012 at 2:10 pm

Arts Calendar: Oct. 17-28

Greater Portland Books & Authors Wednesday 10/17

Lifestyle •
Monday, October 15, 2012 at 12:20 pm

Community Calendar: Oct. 17-28

Greater Portland Benefits Saturday 10/27 Yarmouth Pumpkin Run 5K and Fun Run, 9 a.m., to benefit the Merrill Memorial Library, Yarmouth High School, 286 West Elm St., Yarmouth, marcia_noyes@yarmouthscho...

Community •
Monday, October 15, 2012 at 12:20 pm

Letter: Moriarty for District 108 state rep

I am writing in support of Steve Moriarty, who is running for the Maine House of Representatives in District 108 (Long Island, Cumberland, Chebeague Island, and part of North Yarmouth). I have known Steve since I was on the Cumberland Town Council in the 1980s and then worked with him on m...

• Opinion •
Monday, October 15, 2012 at 11:40 am

Letter: Maine needs Woodbury's experience

You wouldn't send an expert economist out to hunt down Osama Bin Laden. That's a job for a Navy SEAL. So don't send a Navy SEAL to Augusta to do the job of an expert economist. Maine needs Dick Woodbury's economic expertise and leadership more than ever. The economy is at the top of the li...

• Opinion •
Monday, October 15, 2012 at 11:10 am
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