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News in South Portland

Community Calendar: Jan. 9-20

Greater Portland Bulletin Board Friday 1/11

Arts Calendar: Jan. 9-20

Greater Portland Auditions & Calls for Art Musica de Filia, auditions for several all-female choirs, Jan. 2-22, 550 Forest Ave., Portland, 807-2158. Tuesday 1/15

Policy Wonk: Corporate welfare in Maine: Alive, well -- and growing

Fourteen years ago, investigative reporters Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele did a lengthy, four-week series for Time magazine that estimated the federal government “shells out $125 billion a year in corporate welfare.” That number is much larger today. Recently, Lo...

The Universal Notebook: Peeved at my own incompetence

Nothing puts me in a foul mood faster than something I can’t fix. That means I’m in a fuming funk a lot of the time, not fit to live with until whatever is broken is either repaired or replaced. At the moment it’s the #*(^%$! roof. The roof over my sunroom office has been...

The View From Away: There's snow end in sight

OK, show of hands: who has shoveled enough snow? Come on, get 'em up. I refuse to believe that I am the only one. And please, no homespun Downeast folk wisdom. “You call this snow? We can still see the windows on our house! Longfellow wrote 'The Song Of Hiawatha' in deeper sno...

Unsung Hero: Janet Kandoian, the indomitable 'Miss K'

SOUTH PORTLAND — The year: 1971. The setting: a fourth-grade class at the Willard School. The question from one of the students to the young, new teacher: “Just how old are you, anyway?” Janet Kandoian, known as “Miss K” to many students, well re...

Southern Meetings: Jan. 4-10

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Dorothy E. Fisher, 84: loved growing flowers

SOUTH PORTLAND — Dorothy E. Fisher, 84, of South Portland, died at her residence Dec. 27, following a brief illness. She was born Feb. 14, 1928, in Andover, New Brunswick, Canada, a daughter of Wiley and Velma Duplissae McLean. She was educated in Andover schools and graduated from Andover ...

S.P. police solicit unwanted guns, ammunition

SOUTH PORTLAND — In response to the Dec. 14 shootings in Newtown, Conn., police are reminding the public they will accept any "unwanted, forgotten or unsafe" firearms and ammunition. Police Lt. Frank Clark said the department accepts firearms and ammunition with no questions asked in...

South Portland Police Beat: Jan. 4

Arrests 12/22 at 8:44 a.m. Claire McAllister, 29, of South Portland, was arrested on Lombard Street by Officer Robert Libby on a charge of domestic violence assault. 12/23 at 3:45 a.m. Keshia M. White, 24, of Manchester, N.H., was arrested on Anth...