When MaineGeneral Health opens its $300-plus million hospital in Augusta this November, nearby homeowners hope it will lead to high-dollar sales of their property — which is likely asking too much, real estate experts say.
September 2013
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Bill Nemitz: Day of work will make all ages richer
Lydia Leimbach is hardly the first person to take a stab at the vexing question of how Maine should best pay for its public schools. Nor, alas, will her answer lower anyone’s property tax bill. But Leimbach, who works as the technology integrator at Hall-Dale high and middle schools in Farmingdale, couldn’t just sit there […]
Posted inBusiness, News
Portland’s fresh connection with Iceland
Market opportunities and a wealth of potential flow both ways in a new North Atlantic sea-trade partnership that relinks Maine’s largest port to a far wider world.
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Negative trends provoke ‘painful’ cuts in UMaine System
Education officials believe eliminating degree programs may be the key to adapting. For others, the implications are ‘shocking.’
Posted inCelebrations
Farrell,Roe
WINSLOW — Drs. Cheryl and Don Farrell of Winslow announce the engagement of their daughter, Nicole M. Farrell to Brandon M. Roe, son of Mr. and Mrs. James Roe of Las Vegas, Nev.
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
OUR OPINION: Children not to blame for their own poverty
WHEN YOU IMAGINE the face of poverty, what do you see? Is it a senior citizen forced to chose between buying her prescriptions and filling her oil tank? Or is it a homeless man, panhandling by an intersection?
Posted inCelebrations
Ellis,Gallagher
EMBDEN POND — Wendy Ellis and Paul Gallagher were married August 2, 2013, at the Gallagher family cabin on Embden Pond, together with their collective three children, Griffin (18), Maeve (15) and Lily (9).
Posted inOpinion
JOHN FRARY: Obama’s threat against Syria put US in untenable situation
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA has explained why American national interests compelled him to threaten military action against the Syrian dictatorship. Am I the only person who noticed? So far I haven’t found a single citizen who could give me the president’s rationale, and I spoke to quite a few while serving at the Franklin County Republican Committee’s table at the Farmington Fair.
Posted inLifestyle
Let your brother divulge his own secret
Dear Annie: I just found out that my brother, who I thought was in graduate school studying to be a teacher, is actually working as a prison guard. I’m the only one in the family who knows. When I phoned him to get the details, he told me that he’d quit school after one semester because he never really wanted to be a teacher. He said our parents bullied him into graduate school when he had trouble finding work after his college graduation. Prison guard was the first job he could get.