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Editorials, Opinion

Our View: Remove license roadblock for Arabic-speaking barbers

by The Editorial Board January 30, 2020January 30, 2020

The written test for people who want to cut hair measures skill and knowledge, not English.

Bicentennial, Maine, News

On this date in Maine history: Jan. 30

by Joseph Owen January 30, 2020March 31, 2020

Jan. 30, 1649: The deposed King Charles I, whose forces were defeated in the English Civil War (1642-1651), is executed by beheading in London. Charles’ death essentially ends the dream of the family of Sir Ferdinando Gorges, who died two years earlier, of extending its control from the province of Maine to all of New […]

Maine, Maine Crime, News

Court ruling on required blood tests unlikely to affect investigations of fatal crashes, police say

by Matt Byrne January 30, 2020January 30, 2020

Departments across the state are changing their procedures to comply with the decision requiring consent or a warrant before drawing blood from a driver involved in a fatal crash.

Meetinghouse, Opinion

JulieAnn Heinrich, Portland: From home canning to home repair, Mom knew it – but didn’t flaunt it

January 30, 2020February 21, 2020

Some time after my mom died, I received a wonderful present from my cousin Linda, daughter of one of my mom’s younger sisters. It may have been a phone call, or a conversation during one of my visits to my home state in the Midwest; I can’t recall. Her gift of words about my mom […]

Meetinghouse, Opinion

Shelley Goad, Windham: You know you’re a grown-up when you seek Mom’s advice

January 30, 2020February 21, 2020

Do you know any teenage girl who wants to ask her mother for advice? I have known a few, but I was not one of them. I was a private person. It was difficult to open myself up to people my own age. Why would I ask my mother anything about clothes, friendships, boys (you’ve […]