WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama has signed legislation that aims to protect the decorum of military funerals by requiring protestors to stay farther away and doubling the “quiet time” before and after the services.
August 2012
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Maine Sikhs puzzled how they could be targeted
As a girl in New Delhi, Sabina Freedman grew up with the Sikh tradition of langar, the community meal open to anyone in the city regardless of religion, caste status, wealth or lack thereof. It was a lesson in equality, with the diners all sitting cross-legged on the ground, but also in humility for a girl from a privileged background.
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NASA lands rover on Mars with precision perfection
PASADENA, Calif. — NASA celebrated the precision landing of a rover on Mars and marveled over the mission’s first photographs Monday — grainy, black-and-white images of Martian gravel, a mountain at sunset and, most exciting of all, the spacecraft’s white-knuckle plunge through the red planet’s atmosphere.
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Griffin-Guerrette Charitable Giving Fund seeks applicants
Trademark Federal Credit Union is accepting applications for its Griffin-Guerrette Charitable Giving Fund, which makes an annual donation of $1,000 to a human service, social welfare or other charitable, non-profit organization.
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Donations benefit cancer research
AUGUSTA — Three stores with Augusta locations — Aubuchon Hardware, Burger King restaurant and Olympia Sports — will participate in the A Chance for Kids program to benefit pediatric cancer research and care at the Jimmy Fund Clinic at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
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USM announces dean’s list for part time students
PORTLAND — The University of Southern Maine has announced its spring semester dean’s list for part-time students.
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Staples school supply drive benefits children in need
DoSomething.org and Staples will hold its fifth annual Staples for Students national school supply drive to collect school supplies for children in need.
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Annabessacook Lake Improvement association to meet Aug. 18
WINTHROP — The Annabessacook Lake Improvement association will hold its annual meeting Aug. 18 at the Augusta West Kampground.
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GOLF: An improved Western View thrives as it turns 80
AUGUSTA — On a clear day the view from the eighth fairway at Western View Golf Club affords a glimpse of Mt. Washington in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. Look slightly left and you can see Sugarloaf in western Maine.
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Upcoming Quilt show benefits Readfield Union Meeting House
READFIELD — Marilyn Wadleigh Bean, of Vienna, was grateful for the quilt her mother and grandmother made for her in the 1940s.