Elderly people must often rely on others for things like trips to the doctor, handling their finances or chopping their firewood for winter.
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MORNING SENTINEL BASEBALL PLAYER OF THE YEAR: Waterville’s Bishop ends iron-man streak with 2nd title
It appears the only thing that’s going to keep Kyle Bishop out of the Waterville Senior High School baseball team’s lineup is graduation. Since starting his first varsity game as a freshman in 2008, Bishop played in 80 consecutive games for the Purple Panthers.
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RICHARD CONNOR: A week at camp in Maine woods is almost always perfect
A bull moose charged from the woods miles from civilization, which today means no cell phone service, and smashed into a car containing five of our family members.
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Neither major party seems to be serving nation
What do the following have in common? At the end of the Clinton administration, a Republican Congress and the Democratic president had a tax structure that generated a national budget surplus. At the end of the George W. Bush administration, with two tax cuts (promising jobs and growth), a GOP Congress and a GOP president, […]
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No process for resolving air pollution problems
No one likes to get the bureaucratic run-around when they call on their government at the state or local level about a problem. So when the American Lung Association in Maine began getting calls from frustrated families who could not get a straight answer to their complaint about a potential lung health hazard we took […]
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Former First Lady Betty Ford dies
Betty Ford said things that first ladies just don’t say, even today. And 1970s America loved her for it.
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U.S. Coast Guard calls off search in Saco Bay
An officer says there were no signs of a distress to indicate a missing person.
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A day of celebration for the South Sudanese
On the day South Sudan declared independence from North Sudan, local South Sudanese immigrants throw a celebration that began at noon at the Portland Expo and will last until midnight.
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MLB: Jeter homers for 3,000th hit
NEW YORK (AP) — Mobbed by his pinstriped pals after the ball sailed into the left-field seats, showered by ovations from his fans, Derek Jeter stood alone — the first New York Yankees player to reach 3,000 hits.
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France reaches Women’s WCup semis after shootout
France tops England and will face either Brazil of the U.S. in the semifinals.