OAKLAND — Fall cleanup for all Oakland cemeteries will take place Monday. Oct. 15.
September 2012
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Waterville are police log and arrests: Sept. 13, 2012
IN ANSON, Tuesday at 1:19 p.m., theft was reported on School Street.
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VIEW FROM ELSEWHERE: To voters’ dismay, candidates don’t let facts get in their way
In the heat of battle this presidential election year, accusations are flying from both campaigns of lies, half-truths and contradictions. Yet the candidates no longer show contrition when a statement is unmasked as a distortion or an out-and-out lie. Instead, they accuse the media of spin.
Posted inOpinion
MAINE COMPASS: New law aimed at plugging ‘brain drain’ of college grads
For decades, we’ve been hearing about Maine’s so-called “brain drain” problem. Bright, promising young college graduates who have spent their entire lives in Maine have to move elsewhere because of dismal job prospects in their home state.
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Attack in Libya kills four Americans
BENGHAZI, Libya — A mob armed with guns and grenades launched a fiery attack on the U.S. Consulate, killing the U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other Americans.
Posted inOpinion
MAINE COMPASS: Democrats want to take Maine back to 2010
It’s clear listening to many of my Democratic friends who are on the campaign trail and writing to newspapers they want to take Maine in a new direction: backward.
Posted inSports
NHL: Owners gives players’ association time-sensitive proposal
NEW YORK — The NHL and the players’ association swapped proposals Wednesday in an effort to head off a lockout scheduled to start this weekend.
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U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens was seen as a rising star
WASHINGTON — At the height of Libya’s civil war, Chris Stevens dashed off to the rebel stronghold of Benghazi by cargo boat to help shape an assortment of Libyan politicians and militias into the cohesive unit that would defeat Moammar Gadhafi. A year-and-a-half later, the 52-year-old ambassador died as Islamists attacked a U.S. consulate in the same city.
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Obama administration investigating Libya attacks
President Barack Obama declared in a White House appearance that the U.S. would “work with the Libyan government to bring to justice” those who killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans.
Posted inOpinion
MAINE COMPASS: The wealthy snicker as we fight to survive
The decision by the Republican National Convention not to seat the Ron Paul delegates from Maine hit home for me.