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Arts Calendar, April 24-May 7

Greater Portland Books & Authors Wednesday 4/24 Meet the Author: Betty Williams, 6:30 p.m., Prince Memorial Library, 26 Main St., Cumberland, 829-2215. Thursday 4/25

Lifestyle •
Tuesday, April 23, 2013 at 10:40 am

Hoppy days: Maine Beer Co. moves to Freeport from Portland

FREEPORT — Maine Beer Co., owned and operated by brothers Dave and Daniel Kleban, quietly opened April 12 and...

Will Graff • News •
Tuesday, April 23, 2013 at 9:10 am

People & Business: April 24

Recognition The Chebeague & Cumberland Land Trust has received the 2013 Community eco-Excellence Award for Cumberland after being nominated by ecomaine board member and Cumberland resident Susan McGinty. The awards are presented annually for contributions in preserving...

Community •
Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Out & About: ‘The Armed Man’ is powerful new ballet

This week’s top picks in the performing arts cover a lot of artistic territory: music, musical theater and dance. The latter is represented by Portland Ballet’s powerful new production of “The Armed Man,” a work for chorus, orchestra and dancers that will be presented at M...

Scott Andrews • Lifestyle •
Monday, April 22, 2013 at 1:00 pm

Falmouth gallery seeks children's artwork

FALMOUTH — Submissions for a Children's Art Show at the DaVinci Experience Art Gallery are being accepted now through May 15. The show on May 24 at the 60 Gray Road gallery will include drawings, paintings and mixed media artwork from children ages 4-13. Prizes for each age grou...

News •
Monday, April 22, 2013 at 11:40 am

Unsung Hero: Jim Mardin of Portland, keeping Maine's military history alive

SOUTH PORTLAND — “June 13, 1944: France. Spent the early morning hours beside vehicles. Many German planes flying around the sky was red with tracers.” Portland resident Jim Mardin was 22 years old when he wrote those words in his log. He and other members of the advanced...

David Treadwell • News •
Monday, April 22, 2013 at 10:50 am

The Universal Notebook: About that well-regulated militia ...

Now that the U.S. Senate has made sure there is no chance that Americans will ever get the gun controls we want and need, I’m sure the victorious gunslingers of America won’t mind a little look back at what the Second Amendment was originally all about. A good buddy – an ...

Edgar Allen Beem • Opinion •
Monday, April 22, 2013 at 9:40 am

Global Matters: Terror in Boston, and the price of prevention

As Boston recovers from the brutal attack on the marathon and the city begins to regain its equilibrium , the eyes of the nation and the attention of Congress will soon turn away from the incident itself and pivot to the so-called “root causes” of terror. We’ll stop seein...

Perry B. Newman • Opinion •
Monday, April 22, 2013 at 9:30 am

Abby's Road: For Boston, a love mash-up

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more splendid and yet more gritty. White snows will blanket the budding trees along the Charles, And fall’s leaves will swirl down thine cobble-stoned streets. Sometime too congested the thoroughfares become,...

Abby Diaz • Opinion •
Monday, April 22, 2013 at 9:20 am

Letter: World is flatter than Delogu believes

If Orlando Delogu is a policy wonk he should know and have read Thomas L. Friedman’s wonderful, thoughtful, intelligent book, "The World is Flat," published in 2005. Friedman, hardly in anyone's view a right-wing conservative, would perhaps agree with some of the assertions Delogu makes in ...

• Opinion •
Monday, April 22, 2013 at 9:00 am
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