HALLOWELL — Spectrum Generations, the William S. Cohen Community Center, has announced its recent bridge and cribbage winners.
March 2013
Posted inCommunity
Wedding show set for March 10 in Hallowell
HALLOWELL — The Maple Hill Farm Inn and Conference Center, 11 Inn Road, will hold its fourth annual wedding show from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday.
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Posted inPolitics, Senate
Bipartisan bill would tighten gun trafficking laws
Maine’s Susan Collins and others introduce a measure that would also create the first federal definition of gun trafficking.
Posted inNation & World, News
U.S. suggests alcohol-free U.N. budget talks
A U.S. ambassador says that the tense process of negotiating the world body’s annual budget is made more complicated by the number of diplomats who turn up drunk.
Posted inCommunity
Embden town positions open
EMBDEN — The town of Embden is accepting applications for the following positions: planning board members and alternates, code enforcement officer and deputy, local plumbing inspector, animal control officer, E911 addressing officer, appeals board members, recreation director, emergency management director(s).
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
VIEW FROM AWAY: Feds likely to tighten rules for painkillers
Has American medicine gotten too good at treating pain? The profession once took pain to be a positive sign of healing. As recently as 50 years ago, even patients recovering from surgery went without medicine to relieve the ache and discomfort. Today, 0To fight back, the federal government is expected to soon tighten the rules for prescribing a popular subset of painkillers, those containing the narcotic hydrocodone mixed with acetaminophen (Vicodin is one of these) or with ibuprofen.
Posted inLetters to the Editor, Opinion
Give with one hand, take double with the other
I attended a meeting recently at the Benton Elementary School.
Posted inLetters to the Editor, Opinion
MaineCare debt hinders Maine’s economic growth
Because of the easing of enrollment, MaineCare grew from 180,000 to 339,000 enrollees since 2001.
Posted inOpinion
PETULA DVORAK: Members of ‘sandwich generation’ share grim slices of their lives
They were asked to introduce themselves, going around the circle: name, age, etc.
Posted inLetters to the Editor, Opinion
Poverty and wealth, justice and money
There’s a saying: “Poverty is not the lack of money. It’s the lack of justice.”