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News in Yarmouth/Chebeague Island

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

Under close scrutiny, Maine school kitchens get passing grades

PORTLAND — One in six Americans – about 48 million people – get sick from foodborne diseases every year. Worse, 128,000 are hospitalized and 3,000 die. The most vulnerable population: children. Those statistics, the latest available from the U.S. Centers ...

Will Graff • News •
Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Kenneth L. Darling, 84

CHEBEAGUE ISLAND — Kenneth L. Darling, 84, formerly of New Gloucester, died unexpectedly on Dec. 17 on Chebeague Island where he had been a resident since September. He was born in South Portland on Feb. 15, 1928, a son of Winifred (Moody) and Melvin Theodore Darling. He was educated...

Obituaries •
Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Jane Flint, 90

YARMOUTH — Jane (McCue) Flint, 90, died in her Yarmouth home on Dec. 23. She was born on July 19, 1922, in Portland, and was the second of three daughters born to Helen McLaughlin McCue and Jack Bernard McCue. Flint graduated from high school and secretarial school in Portland and wa...

Obituaries •
Wednesday, December 26, 2012

People and Business

Awards Christine Bearce, the physical education teacher and assistant principal at Longfellow Elementary School in Portland, has received the highest award for leadership given by the Maine Association for Health, Physical Education, Recre...

Community •
Tuesday, December 25, 2012
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