NORTH ANSON — Students of biology and environmental science classes at Carrabec High School are collaborating with the Embden Lake Association to build teams that will survey the lake for invasive aquatic plants this summer.
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Some fear texting’s toll on conversational skills
CHICAGO — Anna Schiferl hadn’t even rolled out of bed when she reached for her cell phone and typed a text to her mom, one recent Saturday. Mom was right downstairs in the kitchen. The text? Anna wanted cinnamon rolls for breakfast.
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Waterville District Court: May 8-11, 2012
WATERVILLE — The following cases were closed from May 8, 2012, to May 11, 2012, in Waterville District Court.
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Community is the theme at Mount View graduation
THORNDIKE — Valedictorian Anna Piotti questioned whether she was worthy of her role at the Mount View High School graduation Sunday.
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Benjamin Pollard comfortable in the middle
PORTLAND — Benjamin Pollard knows he sometimes sounds like a Republican. That’s why he believes he’s the best Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate.
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VIEW FROM ELSEWHERE: U.S. education system should try competition
America has tried everything to improve its educational system, and has failed. Everything.
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MAINE COMPASS: Transportation needs of seniors will increase with growing numbers
As if we did not have enough to worry about, with rising gas prices and an increasingly expensive highway system, one more transportation crisis lurks around the corner: The baby boomers are getting older.
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VIEW FROM ELSEWHERE: Election officials stay on top of voter fraud
When a report showed that thousands of registered voters in Florida were, in fact, dead, it played directly into the suspicions that some have about the prevalence of voter fraud.
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VIEW FROM ELSEWHERE: A universe of sound awaits preservation
The classic, justly admired Simon and Garfunkel album, “Bridge Over Troubled Water,” has sold 25 million copies around the world since its release in 1970. But when a newly re-mastered edition came out last year, Roy Halee, one of the disc’s producers, made a startling admission — because the master tapes for the disc were in such terrible condition, the engineers doing the sonic spit-and-polish might have been better off finding a pristine vinyl copy for their work.
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No survivors in plane crash
LAGOS, Nigeria — A commercial airliner crashed into a densely populated neighborhood in Nigeria’s largest city on Sunday, killing all 153 people on board and others on the ground in the worst air disaster in nearly two decades for the troubled nation.