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Abby's Road: There is good amid all the bad

It can be hard to celebrate what we have when the holidays are dominated with news of what we have lost. On Thanksgiving, when Falmouth lost a beloved second-grade teacher I did not know, I mourned an absence that I had never counted on as a presence. After Thanksgiving, when my in-...

Abby Diaz • Opinion •
Monday, December 31, 2012

Community Calendar: Jan. 2-13

Greater Portland Bulletin Board Wednesday 1/2

Community •
Monday, December 31, 2012

Arts Calendar: Jan. 2-13

Greater Portland Auditions & Calls for Art Musica de Filia, auditions for several all-female choirs, Jan. 2-22, 550 Forest Ave, Portland, 807-2158. Books & Authors Friday 1/11 

Lifestyle •
Monday, December 31, 2012

'We finally feel equal': Maine's first married gay couple ties the knot at Portland City Hall

PORTLAND — The first gay couple to be married in the state of Maine took their vows in a short ceremony in the city clerk’s office at approximately 12:25 a.m. Saturday. “We finally feel equal and happy to live in Maine,” said Steven Bridges, who married Michael Snel...

Abigail Curtis and Seth Koenig, Bangor Daily News • News •
Saturday, December 29, 2012 at 11:00 am

Iconic career comes to a close for Maine Sen. Olympia Snowe

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Her decision to wear purple was not by design. She wasn't trying to make a political fashion statement. It just worked out that way, she said. "No, you're talking about being a purple state or something," U.S. Sen. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, said on the day of her far...

Scott Thistle, Sun Journal • News •
Friday, December 28, 2012 at 11:20 am

Northern Meetings: Dec. 27-Jan. 2

Cumberland

Community •
Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Chebeague Island Police Beat: Dec. 27

Arrests No arrests or summonses were reported from Dec. 17 - 24.

Police Beat •
Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Yarmouth Police Beat: Dec. 27

Arrests 12/21 at 11:02 p.m.John P. Dean, 45, of East Elm Street, was arrested on East Elm Street by Sgt. Daniel Gallant on an outstanding warrant from another agency Summonses 12/17 at 10:03 a.m.

Police Beat •
Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Northern School Notebook

It all adds up to success From left, Toby Kany, Joseph Gilbert, Kristin Kendell, Jay Philbrook, Aaron Howell and Emma Raven made up the  fifth grade math team from the North Yarmouth Memorial School that placed first at the Southern Maine Elementary Math League Meet on Dec. 6. Phil...

Community •
Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Timothy Wayne VanDine, 54

YARMOUTH — Timothy Wayne VanDine, 54, died at home Dec. 16, surrounded by family after a brief, but aggressive, battle with cancer. VanDine was born in Portland on Oct. 15, 1958, the youngest son of Pauline (Murchie) and Frank VanDine and attended Buxton schools before enlisting in t...

Obituaries •
Wednesday, December 26, 2012
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