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Forecaster Forum: 'Out' in Maine: How people, times change

Weeks before graduation from my small-town high school in the spring of 1975, I was caught by a state trooper having sex with another man in the woods of Maine. We were minors, exploring our sexuality in the back seat of a Volkswagen bug. The implications surrounding this event changed my ...

Dana Marcoux • Opinion •
Monday, January 21, 2013 at 11:50 am

The View From Away: Online college education isn't college or education

A friend recently sent me an article predicting the imminent demise of college as we know it at the hands of the cheaper, more efficient Internet. My friend sees this trend toward online higher education as an opportunity for me to teach in the digital classroom. She may be right. God know...

Mike Langworthy • Opinion •
Monday, January 21, 2013 at 11:10 am

The Universal Notebook: It's time to tax guns, ammo

Walking the dog the other day at Twin Brook Recreation Area in Cumberland, I was treated to the incessant bam-bam, bam-bam-bam, bam-bam, bam-bam-bam-bam, bam of someone targeting shooting somewhere off to the west. At least I hope they were just target shooting. You can’t discharge a...

Edgar Allen Beem • Opinion •
Monday, January 21, 2013 at 10:30 am

Forecaster Forum: Reports that we are dying are greatly exaggerated

Back in 1897, James Ross Clemens was ill. Not-so-careful passing on of information resulted in word that Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by his pen name of Mark Twain, was dying in London. When an enterprising reporter decided to check on Twain before publishing his demise, the author resp...

Cheryl Wormley • Opinion •
Monday, January 21, 2013 at 10:20 am

Letter: Looking forward to Delogu's follow-up

I would like to thank Orland Delogu for his well-researched Policy Wonk column on corporate welfare in Maine ("Corporate welfare in Main...

• Opinion •
Monday, January 21, 2013 at 9:50 am

Correction to Garfield Ingraham obituary

The obituary for Garfield Ingraham, 92, printed on Jan. 10 omitted the names of some of his family members. Ingraham is survived by his daughter, Lisa Romeo and her husband, Richard, and their children Megan Tarling, Eric Romeo and Christopher Romeo of Cape Elizabeth; daughter, Pamela Ingr...

Obituaries •
Thursday, January 17, 2013

Voter education key for $17M Freeport HS expansion

FREEPORT — After planners presented a nearly $16.9 million expansion proposal for Freeport High School last week, officials in Regional...

Will Graff • News •
Wednesday, January 16, 2013 at 8:40 am

Northern School Notebook

North Yarmouth school wins southern Maine math meet NORTH YARMOUTH — The fifth grade math team from North Yarmouth Memorial School won the Southern Maine Elementary Math Meet held Dec. 6.

Community •
Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Raymond L. Hamilton, 102

CHEBEAGUE ISLAND — Raymond L. Hamilton, 102, died Jan. 6. He was born on Chebeague Island on Dec. 12, 1910, the son of Alfred and Florence Hamilton. He was educated in island schools. A lifelong lobster man, he was still fishing at 90. His daughter Gail has very fond memo...

Obituaries •
Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Doris Louise Gardner Anderson, 98: Gentle, kind and selfless

FALMOUTH — Doris Louise Gardner Anderson, 98, died Jan. 7. She was born in Minneapolis, Minn., to Harry and Inga Iverson Gardner. Her life was devoted to supporting her husband, Clifford, who died in 2006, and her family and friends. She was loved by all who knew her and ...

• Obituaries •
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
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