SOUTH PORTLAND — Jane Cleaves can remember when nurses didn’t speak directly to doctors and were supposed to stand when a doctor entered the room.
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Police: Man had $2K worth of pot
WATERVILLE — A Waterville man faces aggravated drug charges after police reported seizing marijuana with a street value of about $2,000 Thursday.
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School assesses air system
FAYETTE — The students and staff at Fayette Central School may find the inside temperatures more comfortable soon.
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City outlaws fireworks’ use, sale
AUGUSTA — City councilors voted 5-2 to ban the use and sale of fireworks in the city.
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Benton continues cleanup
BENTON — Everett Whitman sat in his white sedan parked near his former floral shop and greenhouses on Clinton Avenue and watched the hazardous waste cleanup this week.
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Few able to squeeze bills in
AUGUSTA — Rep. Ben Chipman of Portland figured he had nothing to lose Thursday by asking legislative leaders to reconsider his bill requiring municipal candidates to disclose financial information earlier.
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Old firetruck donated to Tech Center
MONMOUTH — The town’s old firetruck will soon be used to train future firefighters elsewhere.
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Restaurant owner under scrutiny
WESTBROOK — A Massachusetts man under investigation for employing illegal aliens and housing them in sometimes squalid conditions is the owner of a Bridge Street house that was cited for safety problems and may have been used as a rooming house.
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LET’S EAT: NOV. 20-24
Cony Spanish Club benefit all-you-can-eat pancake breakfast, 8-10 a.m. Nov. 20, Applebee’s; tickets cost $5 in advance; the club will also sell jewelry made by CREAMOS, a women’s cooperative of Guatemalan mothers that markets beaded jewelry; proceeds from jewelry sales will benefit the artisans and proceeds from the breakfast will benefit the club’s trip to Guatemala to work with impoverished children; jewelry ranges in price from $5 to $25; for more information or tickets, call Gretchen Livingston, Spanish teacher, at 215-8393 or email glivingston@augustaschools. org.