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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

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

Arts Calendar: Oct. 17-28

Greater Portland Books & Authors Wednesday 10/17

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

Letter: Protect everyone's right to marry

I am writing to express my heartfelt support for marriage equality and urge all readers to vote yes on Question 1 this November. As a lawyer, I have been trained to argue and defend either side of most any issue; however, I find it impossible to craft a rational, constitutional argument upholding...

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

Letter: Falmouth bus shows town's vision

As an employee of the Iris Network with a 35-year career in assisting Maine residents with blindness and visual impairment, I am watching the Falmouth vote on public bus service with concern.

• Opinion •
Monday, October 15, 2012 at 11:30 am

Letter: Bus is a benefit to all of Falmouth

As a Falmouth citizen who has never ridden the Falmouth METRO bus, I’m writing to encourage voters to support the bus and vote no on Falmouth Question 1. Why? Because we non-riders all benefit from having this service. It brings people to our businesses to shop and...

• Opinion •
Monday, October 15, 2012 at 11:20 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

Letter: Stay the course with Woodbury

State Sen. Dick Woodbury is a smart, caring, independent legislator with almost eight years of Maine legislative experience, and an economist with a proven bipartisan record – especially during the last divisive session. Chris Tyll is a nice guy who owns a business and served in the militar...

• Opinion •
Monday, October 15, 2012 at 11:00 am
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