LEWISTON — Attorney Adam Arguelles has joined the Berman & Simmons law firm where he represents clients in medical malpractice, wrongful death and personal injury cases, from the firm’s Lewiston office, 129 Lisbon St. Prior to joining Berman & Simmons, he dedicated nearly a decade to federal government service. Most recently, he clerked for Judge […]
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Scientists seek way to measure pain
WASHINGTON (AP) — Is the pain stabbing or burning? On a scale from 1 to 10, is it a 6 or an 8? Over and over, 17-year-old Sarah Taylor struggled to make doctors understand her sometimes debilitating levels of pain, first from joint-damaging childhood arthritis and then from fibromyalgia. “It’s really hard when people can’t […]
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Coca-Cola closing Farmington sales center
FARMINGTON — Coca-Cola of Northern New England is closing its Farmington sales office. The 12 employees there will be offered other positions within the company, a spokesman said Thursday. Nick Martin said the decision was “part of an ongoing effort to optimize Coca-Cola of Northern New England’s network of facilities throughout the Northeast.” The closure […]
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Eric Brakey launches Free Maine Campaign to fight 'nanny state'
AUBURN — After his unsuccessful bid last year to unseat U.S. Sen. Angus King, former state Sen. Eric Brakey is launching what he calls the Free Maine Campaign to defend the liberty of Mainers. Brakey, 30, said the new organization aims “to protect the freedoms and paychecks of Maine people” with a grass-roots effort to […]
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Western Maine Transportation adds routes to ski mountains; more routes planned
LEWISTON — Western Maine Transportation Services has added three new commuter runs in the past six weeks and more are expected as soon as it has the buses, Craig Zurhorst told the Lewiston Auburn Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce on Thursday. On Dec. 1, Mountain Express commuter routes started from Lewiston-Auburn to Sunday River in Newry and […]
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Friend working three jobs envies man on easy street
DEAR ABBY: I am having issues with a friend who gets handed most everything he wants. I had to grow up when I was very young, pay my own way for things and take care of myself. I work three jobs to pay my rent in a house with four other people while still pursuing […]
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Obscenity is not just a set of words
As a general rule, I don’t curse a lot. I’ve found that I can usually express myself effectively enough without it. And it’s always seemed to me that foul language, used ubiquitously, loses its primary value, i.e., its ability to shock or to state a thing with force. How seriously should anyone take the F-bomb […]
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French comedy is Franco Center's January film
LEWISTON — “Super Lola,” a made-for-TV comedy from France, is the first movie in this year’s French Film TV5MONDE series by The Dolard & Priscilla Gendron Franco Center. It will be shown at 6:30 p.m. Monday, Jan. 28, at the center at 46 Cedar St. The 2013 French comedy tells the story of Lola, a […]
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There’s a better way to enforce immigration
We who follow immigration policy closely know that the wall is a dumb idea. Closing much of the government over it is dumber still. Why is the wall a dumb idea? It would be expensive. It would be unsightly. It would be environmentally destructive. More to this point, it would be ineffective. First off, an […]
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Looking Back on Jan. 10
100 years ago: 1919 Officers of the Leeds Grange for the following year will be installed at the next meeting, Saturday, by E.T. Clifford of Winthrop, a member of the executive committee of the Maine State Grange. It is expected that the programs will be ready for distribution at that time, also the traveling library […]