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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...

Edgar Allen Beem • Opinion •
Monday, January 7, 2013 at 9:50 am

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...

Mike Langworthy • Opinion •
Monday, January 7, 2013 at 8:50 am

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...

David Treadwell • News •
Friday, January 4, 2013 at 3:20 pm

Southern Meetings: Jan. 4-10

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Community •
Friday, January 4, 2013

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 ...

Obituaries •
Friday, January 4, 2013

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...

News •
Thursday, January 3, 2013 at 7:50 am

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...

Police Beat •
Thursday, January 3, 2013

'History won't lose me': First same-sex marriages made in South Portland

SOUTH PORTLAND — Robin Elliott and Laura Minervino waited for about 10 minutes for City Hall to open last Saturday morning. That was nothing compared to the 23 years they waited for a marriage license. Elliott and Minervino were the first same-sex couple in the city to get a m...

David Harry • News •
Wednesday, January 2, 2013 at 3:30 pm

Nordstrom Rack, Bon-Ton coming to South Portland

SOUTH PORTLAND — Nordstrom, the Seattle-based high-end fashion and accessories retailer, will open its first store in Maine this spring at the Maine Crossing Shopping Center off Running Hill Road. A 30,000-square-foot Nordstrom Rack will be built in the space formerly occupied by clo...

David Harry • News •
Wednesday, January 2, 2013 at 2:50 pm

People and Business

Appointments Falmouth Historical Society recently elected a new board: Scott McLeod, president; Janice de Lima, vice president; Betsy Jo Whitcomb, secretary; Fred Howe, treasurer...

• Community •
Tuesday, January 1, 2013
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