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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 ...

Amber Cronin • News •
Monday, December 24, 2012 at 10:30 am

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. ...

Scott Thistle, Sun Journal • News •
Monday, December 24, 2012 at 9:40 am

Letter: Angels in Falmouth, and above

The horrific events in Newtown, Conn., have haunted people everywhere. On Tuesday evening, Dec. 18, at the annual Winter Concert of the Falmouth Elementary School, I felt the spirits of 20 children, ages 6 and 7, from the Sandy Hook Elementary School. Parents with siblings and grandparents...

• Opinion •
Monday, December 24, 2012

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...

Perry B. Newman • Opinion •
Monday, December 24, 2012

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...

Edgar Allen Beem • Opinion •
Monday, December 24, 2012

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...

Mike Langworthy • Opinion •
Monday, December 24, 2012

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...

Lifestyle •
Saturday, December 22, 2012

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

Community •
Saturday, December 22, 2012

Donation, program help vision-impaired unlock iPhone aids

PORTLAND — With a donation from the Falmouth Lions Club, the Iris Network can now train six vision-impaired individuals to acces...

Amber Cronin • News •
Friday, December 21, 2012 at 1:40 pm

Cumberland County plan seeks action on energy use

PORTLAND — After two years of work, the Greater Portland Council of Governments and Cumberland County released the county's first ever climate and energy plan last week. GPCOG began an emissions inventory in 2007 to identify the county's major problems. The study looked at how m...

Amber Cronin • News •
Friday, December 21, 2012 at 1:30 pm
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