Craft supply fair is April 6 AUBURN — A fabric and craft supply fair will be held from 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Saturday, April 6, at High Street Congregational Church, 106 Pleasant St. Crafters gather up fabric and supplies they bought but never used and sell them to other crafters. More than 20 tables […]
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In the Crease: D-III Tourney will wait for no one
LAKE PLACID, N.Y. — Lake Placid is everything the postcards will lead you to believe it is. There is one main road through town (Main Street, of course), and picturesque shops and restaurants dot this stop-and-go, two-lane thoroughfare from the town line. On the way into town, you drive past Olympic venues — or access […]
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Well done – Students honored for achievements
NEW LONDON, Conn. — Seana Siekman, a member of the class of 2013 at Connecticut College and a resident of Bethel, has been named to the dean’s honors list for the 2012 fall semester. — BOSTON, Mass. — The following local residents have been named to Emerson College’s dean’s list for the fall 2012 semester. […]
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In the Crease: NCAA D-III hockey tourney a chance for everyone to work together
Lewiston-Auburn has a unique opportunity sitting at its doorstep. Whether it invites it in for coffee and cake, or leaves it shivering on the welcome mat remains to be seen. Monday’s announcement that the 2014 Division III Men’s Hockey Championship is coming to Lewiston set the stage for such a decision. The NCAA, in conjunction […]
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B. Hixon: A return of Democratic intelligence
Fortunately for Maine’s families, workers, students, teachers, disabled, unemployed, elderly and others, Gov. LePage and his Republican legislative puppets will remain the driving force behind their own demise and the election of a Democratic governor in 2014. By returning Democrats to the majority in both legislative houses last November, we have collectively and resolutely sent […]
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Bowdoin College rejects students’ calls to divest fossil-fuel investments
BRUNSWICK, Maine — Despite a petition signed by more than 500 students urging Bowdoin College to divest from investments in fossil fuels, the institution will not do so, a college spokesman said Thursday. Student group Bowdoin Climate Action gathered signatures from 500 of the school’s 1,750 students, as well as from alumni and townspeople and […]
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Maine Supreme Court rejects DNA-based appeal in Bowdoin murder
BOWDOIN — The Maine Supreme Judicial Court has rejected a motion for a new trial in a decade-old murder case in a decision that legal experts said could set precedent for future appeals that are based on DNA evidence. Olland Reese, who was convicted of murdering 16-year-old Cody Green of Brunswick in 2003, is serving […]
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Warm Thy Neighbor provides heat assistance
BRUNSWICK — It is not quite halfway into the heating season and already 107 households have requested and received fuel assistance. This is more than 60 percent of last year’s total of 173 households, comprised of over 450 individuals. Warm Thy Neighbor is a local heating assistance program serving Bowdoin, Bowdoinham, Durham, Lisbon and Lisbon […]
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Court rejects appeal from man who murdered Brunswick teen
BUCKSPORT (AP) — Maine’s highest court has rejected an appeal from a construction worker who’s serving a 47-year sentence for the 2002 bludgeoning death of a Brunswick teenager. Olland Reese of Bowdoin was convicted of murder for killing 16-year-old Cody Green with the blunt end of a hatchet. The teenage girl was buried behind Reese’s […]
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Well done
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Kathleen S. Pickel of Buckfield, Maine, was named to the dean’s list for the fall 2012 semester at Wagner College. POTSDAM, N.Y. — Jessica Mitaly of New Gloucester, Maine, a Clarkson University junior majoring in mechanical engineering, interned at Hamilton Sundstrand in Windsor Locks, Conn., last summer. CLEMSON, S.C. — The […]