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Stepping out to end hunger

Community •
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

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

Southern School Notebook

Scarborough students host holiday fundraising events SCARBOROUGH — On Friday, Dec. 21, Scarborough High School will hold two fundraising events. At 10 a.m., the school chorus holds a holiday concert to raise funds for a trip to New York City. Concert donations are ...

Community •
Friday, December 14, 2012

Anita Richard Card Daley, 95: Famed local runner

SCARBOROUGH — M. Anita Richard Card Daley, 95, of South Portland, formerly of Westbrook, died Dec. 10 at Gosnell Hospice House in Scarborough from complications due to a fall in August. She was born in Rogersville, New Brunswick, Canada, a daughter of John W. and Marie J. McCaie Rich...

Obituaries •
Friday, December 14, 2012

Southern Meetings: Dec. 14-20

Cape Elizabeth

Community •
Friday, December 14, 2012

Scarborough board slows plan to rebuild McDonald's

SCARBOROUGH — Plans to raze and rebuild the McDonald's restaurant at 221 U.S. Route 1 are on hold until early next year after Planning Board members tabled a project review Monday night. With questions about building elevation and some other site elements, further consideration of th...

David Harry • News •
Thursday, December 13, 2012 at 11:00 am
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