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Community Calendar: June 5-18

Greater Portland Benefits Tuesday 6/11 Benefit for CEHS Safe Passage Team, CEHS will receive a portion of the sale from every flatbread purchased that day, Flatbread Company, 72 Commercial St., Portland, 232-...

Community •
Monday, June 3, 2013 at 3:10 pm

Cumberland County sheriff wins 'food fight' with manager

PORTLAND — Cumberland County Sheriff Kevin Joyce successfully fought back a proposal by County Manager Peter Crichton to consider hiring a private company to take over the kitchen at the Cumberland County Jail. In an appearance before the county’s five-member Board of Commissio...

Ted Cohen • News •
Monday, June 3, 2013 at 1:00 pm

South Portland fire leaves 7 people homeless

SOUTH PORTLAND — Seven residents of an apartment house at 72 Hill St. were left homeless after a Sunday morning fire now under investigation by the Office of the State Fire Marshal. South Portland Fire Department Lt. Robb Couture said no one was injured in the blaze first reported at...

David Harry • News •
Monday, June 3, 2013 at 12:20 pm

Unsung Hero: Theresa Saxton, doing the Iron Man for mom

YARMOUTH — Why would any sane soul choose to do the Iron Man Triathlon, an event consisting of a 2.4-mile swim, a 112-mile bike ride and a 26.2-mile (full marathon) run? More to the point, why would someone choose to do it solo, without hundreds of fellow competitors from whom to dra...

David Treadwell • News •
Monday, June 3, 2013 at 12:10 pm

Letter: No room for alcohol in South Portland parks

I urge the South Portland City Council to keep in force the long-standing ordinance prohibiting alcoholic beverages at city parks, beaches and recreational areas. The change is advocated by a group that wants Sea Dog Brewery to sell beer at an upcoming festival. Once the ordinance is chang...

• Opinion •
Monday, June 3, 2013 at 10:50 am

The Universal Notebook: The decline of church, a sermonette

This little reflection on the future of church (mine, yours and many others) in an age of declining church membership is a revised version of a sermonette I delivered as part of the June 2 Laity Sunday service at First Parish Church, United Church of Christ, Yarmouth. What I did not tell m...

Edgar Allen Beem • Opinion •
Monday, June 3, 2013 at 10:40 am

Abby's Road: Do not expose to heat

I do not do well in heat. After prolonged exposure to temperatures north of, say, 78 degrees, I melt into a barely contained puddle. It is one of the characteristics I have most in common with an ice cube. This tendency worked especially against me when I lived in large cities. Commuting t...

Abby Diaz • Opinion •
Monday, June 3, 2013 at 10:20 am

Short Relief: Who's fooling who on MaineCare?

There is nothing unreasonable about Maine paying its hospital debt independent of expanding MaineCare. MaineCare is Maine’s version of Medicaid. It provides health care to low-income persons. It is jointly funded by the state and federal governments. Maine hospitals are owed $...

Halsey Frank • Opinion •
Monday, June 3, 2013 at 10:10 am

Letter: Beem column triggers childhood memories

Edgar Allen Beem's "Pictures of Childhood" column brought back these memories. My mother's first sojourn out of northern New Hampshire was a summer job at a hotel in Old Orchard Beac...

• Opinion •
Monday, June 3, 2013 at 8:40 am

Mary Jane Connolly, 68

SCARBOROUGH — Mary Jane Connolly, 68, died May 19 at Gosnell Memorial Hospice House. She was born Dec. 23, 1944, in Portland, a daughter of Desmond and Mary Ann Brown. Connolly grew up in South Portland and was a 1963 graduate of South Portland High School. She became a licensed...

Obituaries •
Friday, May 31, 2013
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