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Arts Calendar: Dec. 19-30

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 •
Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Editor's Notebook: '... Don't worry, it'll change'

"If you're in a bad situation," someone once said, "don't worry, it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry, it'll change." That sense of constant change sums up the past year at The Forecaster, where we've welcomed several new staffers – William Hall, Will Graff, Maren...

Mo Mehlsak • Opinion •
Monday, December 17, 2012 at 12:10 pm

Out & About: ‘Phyzgig,' ‘Beauty and the Beast’ top choices

As the Christmas-New Year holiday period approaches, most performing artists do what everyone else does: Head home and take a break with the family. There’s a marked slowdown in the performing arts between Christmas and late January. So “Out & About” takes its annual ...

Scott Andrews • Lifestyle •
Monday, December 17, 2012 at 11:30 am

Unsung Hero: Nancy Marshall of Cape Elizabeth, giving lasting gifts

CAPE ELIZABETH — Shortly after Nancy Marshall was diagnosed with stage 3 lung cancer in 1997, her oncologist told her, “There will come a time when you will serve as an example to other people who are struggling with cancer.” His words proved most prophetic. But fi...

David Treadwell • News •
Monday, December 17, 2012 at 10:40 am

The Universal Notebook: Have yourself a cool Christmas

The Christmas gifts of my childhood in the 1950s are lost memories, but I vividly recall the Christmas gifts of my adolescence in the early 1960s because they were invariably the things every teen and pre-teen needed to be cool. Just how coolness managed to be communicated to the youth of ...

Edgar Allen Beem • Opinion •
Monday, December 17, 2012 at 10:10 am

Letter: Thanks for helping Freeport Scouts' food drive

As the Scouting for Food coordinator for Freeport and Pownal, I would like to extend my deepest gratitude to the members of our two communities for helping the Scouts with our recent food drive. In November, you donated thousands of pounds of food for the pantry at Freeport Community Services. In...

• Opinion •
Monday, December 17, 2012 at 9:10 am

White House cancels Obama visit to Portland

PORTLAND — Just hours after announcing Friday that President Obama would visit Portland this week, White House officials called off those plans in the wake of the shootings in Newtown, Conn. Obama was to speak at the University of Southern Maine on Wednesday about the so-called "fisc...

• News •
Friday, December 14, 2012 at 1:50 pm

Downeaster noise concerns persist in Brunswick as ridership exceeds expectations

BRUNSWICK — Ridership during the Amtrak Downeaster's first month of passenger service to Freeport and Brunswick was higher than expected, according to the Northern New England Passenger Rail Authority. Patricia Quinn, NNEPRA executive director, Tuesday said preliminary ridership nort...

Dylan Martin • News •
Wednesday, December 12, 2012 at 10:30 am

Freeport deal with Habitat for Humanity to expand affordable housing

FREEPORT — Work on eight affordable homes is starting this month after a deal with the town allowed Greater Portland Habitat for Humanity to expedite construction of its largest project ever in Cumberland County. The deal, part of an ongoing effort to create more affordable housing i...

Will Graff • News •
Wednesday, December 12, 2012 at 7:40 am

Northern Meetings: Dec. 13-19

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Community •
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
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