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The Universal Notebook: High and State, it's a 2-way street

Portland city officials are considering whether to return High Street and State Street, the one-way, up-and-over avenues across the downtown peninsula, to two-way traffic. I remember when they were designated one-way back in 1972. I was just out of college, just married, just started a new...

Edgar Allen Beem • Opinion •
Monday, March 11, 2013 at 12:10 pm

Policy Wonk: State of the state? Muddled

The possibilities for partisan gridlock in Augusta have seldom been greater, but lets begin on a positive note. Gov. Paul LePage is right when he calls for hospital Medicaid debt to be paid. Historically, each year’s Medicaid obligation was paid in full. The LePage administration has...

Orlando Delogu • Opinion •
Monday, March 11, 2013 at 12:00 pm

Abby's Road: Feeling like a mom

When I was a new mother, I was asked when I first really “felt like a mom.” I’m not sure if this is a common question for new mothers, or if I was uniquely targeted because those around me wanted to be sure I realized that I was, in fact, a mother. I have spent the past f...

Abby Diaz • Opinion •
Monday, March 11, 2013 at 11:40 am

Letter: Don't believe the tar-sands advocates

I'm not surprised Canadian representatives advocating carrying tar-sands oil from Alberta to Portland came here with their dog-and-pony show (...

• Opinion •
Monday, March 11, 2013 at 11:10 am

Letter: Beem is right about reading with kids

Children’s literature is a great equalizer, as noted in Edgar Allen Beem’s recent column, "Grampy reads 'Gumpy'". In the true spirit of bipartisanship he lovingly described the power of picture...

• Opinion •
Monday, March 11, 2013 at 10:50 am

Southern Meetings: March 8-14

Cape Elizabeth Mon.  3/11  7:30 a.m.  School Board Policy Committee  TH Mon.  3/11  7 p.m.  Town Council and Finance Committee  TH Tue.  3/12  7 p.m.  School Board  TH Tue.  3/12  ...

Community •
Friday, March 8, 2013

Elaine Millicent Flaherty, 93

SOUTH PORTLAND — Elaine Millicent Flaherty, 93, died Feb. 24 at South Portland by the Sea, surrounded by family. She was born Jan. 9, 1920, in Hollis to Laurence A. and Mildred Johnson Sawyer. She was salutatorian and a 1937 graduate of Samuel D. Hansen High School in Buxton.

Obituaries •
Friday, March 8, 2013

Charles H. Horne, 79

SCARBOROUGH — Charles H. Horne, 79, of Scarborough, died Saturday following a period of declining health and lung disease.  Horne was born in Mexico on Sept. 22, 1933, a son of Wirt T. and Isabelle Horne. He graduated from Mexico High School, in 1950. Horne married t...

Obituaries •
Friday, March 8, 2013

Busting moves all night long

Alexis Bolduc, Taylor Crosby and Alizah Brandwein, left to right, dance the night away last Saturday during the ninth annual Strive Rocks! dance marathon at Maine Mall. The 12-hour dance party, with live music, began at 9 p.m., and was followed Sunday by all-day family events to benefit South Por...

News •
Thursday, March 7, 2013 at 4:10 pm

South Portland council candidates speak out

SOUTH PORTLAND — One week before voters cast ballots at the Community Center, three of four District 1 City Council candidates elaborated on their positions and personalities at a City Hall forum Tuesday night. Planning Board member Rob Schreiber was unable to attend the forum hosted...

David Harry • News •
Thursday, March 7, 2013 at 1:00 pm
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