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News in Falmouth

Short Relief: A stitch in time costs about a grand

Early in life, my greatest talent appeared to be breaking glass. I went through glass tables, glass windows, and glass doors, and I have the scars to show for it. I was a regular at the Englewood Hospital Emergency Room. Fortunately, my across-the-street neighbors were a couple of d...

Halsey Frank • Opinion •
Monday, December 31, 2012

The Universal Notebook: Slaughter of the innocents

Who or what is to blame for the slaughter of the innocents in Newtown, Conn.? Columbine? Tucson? Omaha? Virginia Tech? Brookfield? Meridian? Lancaster? You don’t want to think about such horrors anymore than I do, but we have no choice. The simple answer is that the Sandy Hook Elemen...

Edgar Allen Beem • Opinion •
Monday, December 31, 2012

'We finally feel equal': Maine's first married gay couple ties the knot at Portland City Hall

PORTLAND — The first gay couple to be married in the state of Maine took their vows in a short ceremony in the city clerk’s office at approximately 12:25 a.m. Saturday. “We finally feel equal and happy to live in Maine,” said Steven Bridges, who married Michael Snel...

Abigail Curtis and Seth Koenig, Bangor Daily News • News •
Saturday, December 29, 2012 at 11:00 am

Iconic career comes to a close for Maine Sen. Olympia Snowe

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Her decision to wear purple was not by design. She wasn't trying to make a political fashion statement. It just worked out that way, she said. "No, you're talking about being a purple state or something," U.S. Sen. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, said on the day of her far...

Scott Thistle, Sun Journal • News •
Friday, December 28, 2012 at 11:20 am

Northern School Notebook

It all adds up to success From left, Toby Kany, Joseph Gilbert, Kristin Kendell, Jay Philbrook, Aaron Howell and Emma Raven made up the  fifth grade math team from the North Yarmouth Memorial School that placed first at the Southern Maine Elementary Math League Meet on Dec. 6. Phil...

Community •
Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Ruth E. Norton, 92: 'Life was all about family'

FALMOUTH—Ruth E. Norton, 92, of Falmouth, died on Dec. 18 at Mercy Hospital in Portland. She was born in Cumberland on March 2, 1920, the daughter of Eleanor (Fogg) and Fred Blanchard.  She was educated in Cumberland schools and graduated from Greely Institute, class of 1938. Sh...

Obituaries •
Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Northern Meetings: Dec. 27-Jan. 2

Cumberland

Community •
Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Under close scrutiny, Maine school kitchens get passing grades

PORTLAND — One in six Americans – about 48 million people – get sick from foodborne diseases every year. Worse, 128,000 are hospitalized and 3,000 die. The most vulnerable population: children. Those statistics, the latest available from the U.S. Centers ...

Will Graff • News •
Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Falmouth Police Beat: Dec. 27

Arrests 12/15 at 1:40 a.m. Heather Howell, 30, of Fox Street, Portland, was arrested on Brook Road by Officer Dennis Ryder on a charge of operating under the influence. 12/15 at 6:11 p.m. Michelle Castrello, 39, of  Illsley Street, was arrest...

Police Beat •
Wednesday, December 26, 2012

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...

Community •
Tuesday, December 25, 2012
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