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Things to Do Outdoors: Thursday, May 23, 2013 BAR HARBOR Join College of the Atlantic senior Anna Stunkel in her weekly journey around campus and to the College of the Atlantic pier in search of the birds of spring during a bird exploration, 4-5 p.m. Wednesdays, through June 5. Bring a pair of binocu
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Mock car crash in Rockland highlights dangers of drinking and driving ROCKLAND, Maine A car crash almost three years ago that claimed the lives of three people, including two Rockland students, was the impetus for a mock fatal accident Wednesday morning on the grounds of Oceanside High School East. Senior Hannah Plourde sai
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Federal agencies eye return to restored historic Custom House in Portland PORTLAND, Maine For more than a decade, one of Portland’s greatest architectural treasures has been locked away, with few people able to access its vaults. Now, after being closed to the public in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks and undergoing a $2
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Old Orchard Beach retaliated against public works employee, commission finds OLD ORCHARD BEACH, Maine The Maine Human Rights Commission has concluded the former office manager of the Old Orchard Beach Public Works Department was retaliated against by the town, in violation of the Maine Whistleblowers Protection Act. Kelly Roy file
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Bath-area residents to vote on shortening school budget approval process BATH, Maine Residents of the five Regional School Unit 1 towns will have the option of eliminating half of the two-step budget-approval process when they vote June 4. Tim Harkins, chairman of the RSU 1 Board of Directors, made that known during Monday nig
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Brunswick officials propose $1.2 million in additional budget cuts for 2014 BRUNSWICK, Maine With adoption of 2014 town and school budgets looming, Town Manager Gary Brown and School Superintendent Paul Perzanoski have prepared $1.2 million in new cuts for the councils approval Thursday. Town councilors two weeks ago requested cu
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Brunswick board to reboot school upgrade discussions after seeing $38.3 million price tag BRUNSWICK, Maine The $38.3 million plan to renovate two public schools will come under “significant evaluation” beginning next week, a School Board member said this week. The board will hold a special facilities meeting at 6 p.m. May 29, at 16
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Ken Nadeau, PA-C, named outstanding Maine PA BANGOR, Maine — Penobscot Community Health Care (PCHC) is pleased to announce that Ken Nadeau, PA-C, associate medical director, Helen Hunt Health Center, was named the 2013 Outstanding Maine Physician Assistant by the Downeast Association of Physic
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Lookout at San Franciscos Lands End SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. Irrational, I know, but it bummed me out, in a breaking-the-spell sort of way, when two tour buses pulled up at the recently remodeled Lands End Lookout visitors center and dumped off a gaggle of slumping, weary tourists. Hello? Youv
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Thursday, May 22, 2013: Imported drugs, NRA and Americans-in-waiting Business abroad LD 449, if approved, would allow the importation of drugs into Maine and charge the Maine State Board of Pharmacy with the responsibility of traveling to sovereign nations in order to inspect drug supplies, manufacturing methods, record-ke
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