AUGUSTA — Violet Marylove Burns, her blond hair covered by a pink and blue striped knitted cap, peered at the world from the arms of her father.
March 2012
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‘A Separation’ is a tale of families in peril
At the opening of Asghar Farhadi’s “A Separation,” the two central characters, husband and wife, sit facing a judge in a small Iranian courtroom no bigger than their home bedroom. The wife, Simin (Leila Hatami), is eager to escape Iran’s suffocating policies and take her teenage daughter Termeh (Sarina Farhadi) with her, presumably to Europe or perhaps America, anywhere but Iran. Simin is an educated woman with a good job, who sees no future for herself or her daughter in her native country.
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MADISON TO ALLOW KV GAS PIPELINE
MADISON — The town will not build a natural gas pipeline through central Maine and will instead turn over the responsibility to former competitor Kennebec Valley Gas Co., town officials announced at a public hearing Wednesday night.
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Waterville area welcomes eight leap day babies
Leap day babies may be rare, but obstetricians and maternity ward nurses and midwives were busy Feb. 29 in central Maine.
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CAMPAIGN AIR FILLED WITH HATS
That loud rumble you heard Wednesday was Maine’s political landscape undergoing a once-in-a-generation shakeup.
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House asking for judicial input about Poliquin questions
AUGUSTA — Maine’s House of Representatives may vote today to request a court review of constitutional questions raised by Treasurer Bruce Poliquin’s private business activity.
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Man proves to be hero a second time
SKOWHEGAN — A resident of Indian Ridge Apartments who comforted a stabbing victim Wednesday morning until police and emergency workers arrived is slated to be honored later this month for saving another man last summer in Norridgewock.
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Stabbing sends man to Bangor hospital
SKOWHEGAN — A Skowhegan man was flown to a Bangor hospital with multiple stab wounds Wednesday morning and another man was in custody after a fight at an apartment complex.
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Labor mural court case begins
AUGUSTA — How the public views art in a public space — as a message from the government or an opinion of the artist — will be at issue in federal court in Bangor when arguments begin over whether Gov. Paul LePage could remove a pro-labor mural from a state building.
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Debt, turbines on New Portland agenda
NEW PORTLAND — Residents will vote whether to pay down debt, purchase a grader, usher in rules surrounding wind turbines, and make the town clerk position an appointed one at Town Meeting on Saturday.