PORTLAND — Anders Overhaug awoke Saturday morning a little nervous. The Yarmouth High School senior running back was anticipating a challenge Saturday afternoon when the Clippers played Bucksport in the Class C state championship game.
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D.C. BEAT: Sens. Collins, Snowe not following Brown’s lead on consumer protection bureau
The announcement by Sen. Scott Brown of Massachusetts last week that he will support President Barack Obama’s nominee to lead a new consumer protection bureau gave the administration hope that other moderate Senate Republicans might follow suit.
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Soup kitchen, food pantries demand soars
SOUTH PORTLAND — Demand is up 20 to 50 percent from a year ago at Maine’s soup kitchens, food pantries and other facilities that provide free food through the Good Shepherd Food-Bank.
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Somerset center staffers train for quick response to missing children
SKOWHEGAN — An estimated 2,000 children under the age of 18 are reported missing in the United States every day. For quick response to such calls locally, staffers at Somerset Regional Communication Center have completed training in the Missing Kids and 911 Readiness Project, partnering them with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
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Headings,Michaud
RANDOLPH — Daniel and Julie Michaud of Randolph have announced the engagement of their son, Joshua Michaud of Boston, to Joylyn Headings of Boston, daughter of Denise Ehredt of Keizer, Ore. and Milton Headings of Portland, Ore.
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Thibeault, Suvlu
OAKLAND — Wendy and Jonathan Thibeault of Oakland have announced the engagement of their daughter, Chelsea Thibeault of Boston to Dylan Suvlu of Orono, son of Christy and Robert Suvlu of Barrow, Alaska.
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Marshall, Belanger
AUGUSTA — Veronica Marshall and Shawn Belanger of Augusta were married Sept. 24, 2011, at the Belgrade Community Center, Belgrade.
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West, Jamo
SKOWHEGAN — Stacie Ann West and Patrick Kyle Jamo were married Aug. 26, 2011 at Notre Dame de Lourdes Church in Skowhegan.
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McNichol,Allen
WESTBROOK — The parents of Martinique McNichol and Nathan Allen are happily announcing their engagement.
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ON THE EDGE: Wash, rinse, repeat
I was a grown man before I discovered that I had obsessive compulsive disorder. (Watch everyone cross the street now when they see me coming.)