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Arts Calendar, April 17-30

Greater Portland Books & Authors Wednesday 4/17 “A Poet’s Sourcebook,” Dawn Potter, 12 p.m., Portland Public Library, 5 Monument Square, Portland, 871-1700 ext. 723. Satur...

Lifestyle •
Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Community Calendar, April 17-30

Greater Portland Benefits Thursday 4/25 Faculty Talent Show and Silent Auction, 5:15-8 p.m., King Middle School, 92 Deering Ave., Portland, 874-8140. Friday 4/26 ...

Community •
Tuesday, April 16, 2013

UPDATE: Mainers describe 'surreal' scene after Boston Marathon blasts

BOSTON — Two bombs exploded on packed streets Monday near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, something a Mainer who witnessed the explosions described as "surreal" and "like a movie." Casey Pola, a graduate of Mt. Ararat High School in Topsham who now works on and lives near Boy...

Will Graff • News •
Monday, April 15, 2013 at 9:20 pm

Southwest Airlines launches Portland service

PORTLAND — Southwest Airlines marked the start of service at Portland International Jetport with a news conference Monday morning, and celebrated by flying a young girl and her family to San Diego as a charitable gift through the Make-A-Wish Foundation. "Having Southwest service in g...

William Hall • News •
Monday, April 15, 2013 at 3:00 pm

The View From Away: Even in Canada, the break room is a battleground

It’s finally sinking in that I'm in Toronto for a real job, with a workday, coworkers and an office. The people are nice. The office environment is friendly. I’m still getting used to showing up at the same place every day and being on time, but it is almost liberating to have ...

Mike Langworthy • Opinion •
Monday, April 15, 2013 at 11:40 am

The Universal Notebook: The right-wing attack on Bowdoin College

So a propaganda organization funded by an ultra-right-wing billionaire has determined that Bowdoin College is too liberal for its tastes. That’s news? It is, according to ultra-right-wing Bowdoin grad and retired Portland Press Herald editor M.D. Harmon, who has been dining ou...

Edgar Allen Beem • Opinion •
Monday, April 15, 2013 at 9:30 am

Brunswick man arrested in Freeport in connection with several business burglaries

FREEPORT — Police arrested a Brunswick man April 10 and charged him with several burglaries at area businesses. Willis L. Jordan III was arrested at about 9:30 a.m. at a residence on Litchfield Road in connection with burglaries in Freeport, Yarmouth and Brunswick, Police Department ...

Will Graff • News •
Friday, April 12, 2013 at 2:10 pm

Northern School Notebook: April 11

Yarmouth High School honor roll The following students have made the honor roll during the second quarter at Yarmouth High School. Grade 12 High Honors: Carolyn Adams, Samuel Beaulieu, Sarah Becker, Izik Dery, Sophia Emmons, Claire Fouchereaux, McKe...

Community •
Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Rhea McLean, 83

YARMOUTH - Rhea May McLean, 83, of Yarmouth, died March 29. She was born May 29, 1929, in Macon, Ga., the second daughter of Florence Seeley and Leonard Aldridge. The family settled in Maine where she attended North Yarmouth schools. In 1949 she married Gerald DeRoche. The couple ha...

Obituaries •
Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Hilda M. Coskery, 86: Longtime Freeport campground owner

FREEPORT — Hilda M. Coskery, 86, of Freeport, died March 30 at the Halifax Medical Center in Port Orange, Fla. She was born in Freeport on June 24, 1926, the daughter of Victor and Marietta Brewer Coffin. She attended Freeport schools and was a 1944 graduate of Freeport High Sch...

Obituaries •
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
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