SKOWHEGAN — Spring has just begun, but the town Parks & Recreation Department is already preparing for summer. This year teenagers can participate in two new clubs: Teen Extreme and Hike & Bike.
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Morning Sentinel police log: April 11, 2011
IN ANSON, Saturday at 3:37 p.m., assault was reported on Horseback Road.
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NHL: Bruins lose in finale to Lemaire, Devils
NEWARK, N.J. — Jacques Lemaire went out a winner. The 65-year-old Hall of Famer walked away from coaching for the third and probably final time, announcing his retirement Sunday after the New Jersey Devils beat the playoff-bound Boston Bruins 3-2 on third-period goals by Vladimir Zharkov and Alexander Urbom.
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LePage’s actions mimic ‘behavior of tyrants’
It is distressing that Gov. Paul LePage has removed art from public view at the Department of Labor Complex. This is not the action of the government of a free society, which has fought to protect freedom of expression and freedom of speech, but has been the behavior of tyrants and dictators throughout history. Censorship […]
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The $70 million question: Is it worth it?
Kennebec Valley Gas Company is proposing a $70 million natural gas pipeline for customers in Kennebec and Somerset counties.
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Gifford’s Ice Cream containers see new design as part of rebranding
SKOWHEGAN — Skowhegan’s family-owned Gifford’s Ice Cream is giving itself a make-over with a new packaging look and a new logo.
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Workers’ struggles are part of U.S., Maine history
Two views of the nature of workers’ struggles in the United States appeared in this paper on two consecutive days. On March 23, Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis recounted the tragic story of 146 women and girls, poor workers in a New York City sweatshop in 1911. They all died in a fire while working, […]
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Safe places to dispose of old pills
There are three things you don’t want to do with unwanted medications: keep them at home, flush them down the toilet, or put them in the trash.
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Calculating LePage’s input, draw from retirement plan
Gov. Paul LePage’s communications director wrote a letter to the editor published March 22 in which he protested the contents of a column by Mike Tipping. Dan Demeritt disagreed with Tipping’s column for mischaracterizing the governor’s failure to require the same increase in his contribution to his retirement in his budget that he did for […]
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In Skowhegan, an education for the real world
SKOWHEGAN — Missy McCaslin, a junior at Maine Central Institute in Pittsfield, recently demonstrated a hospital operating room procedure with four other students, all of them dressed in surgical caps and gowns.