Portland, Maine, firefighters Andrew Johnston, left, Lt. Don Brown, center, and David Young dig out one of the city’s 1,500 fire hydrants, Wednesday, March 15, in Portland. Mariah Cunningham-Kanaus looks back at a parking lot after digging her car out, Wednesday, March 15, in Portland.A woman digs her car out the morning after a powerful […]
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Should the Fed run the economy 'hot'?
WASHINGTON — Toward the end of 1942, Winston Churchill, in announcing a rare victory over the German army, uttered one of his more memorable phrases: “This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.” The same might be said today of […]
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Next steps for the Trump resistance
WASHINGTON — For opponents of President Trump, his first seven weeks in office went about as badly for the country as they expected. The pleasant surprise is their own capacity for resistance and political resilience. What some feared might be a Trump Juggernaut is instead the Trump Jalopy, a wheezing, unsightly contraption with grinding gears […]
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Fryeburg Academy’s Project Graduation hosting Marley, auction
FRYEBURG — Fryeburg Academy’s Class of 2017 Project Graduation Committee is hosting two events this month. On Saturday, March 25, the school’s 27th annual auction will be held at the gym. The auction preview will be at 4 p.m. and the auction will begin at 5:30. There will be hundreds of chance and silent auction […]
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Meow Madness: The Purrfect mix of kittens and basketball
NEW YORK — Watch out Villanova and Kentucky (and Arizona and Northwestern), there’s a new set of cats going wild for March Madness. Time for Meow Madness , coming in April. Buoyed by the success of the Kitten Bowl, the Hallmark Channel is debuting a new show hosted by Beth Stern that will air on […]
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Dori A. Galgovitch
LISBON FALLS — Dori Ann Galgovitch, 65, of Lisbon Falls went home to her Lord and earned her wings Sunday, March 12, at her home, surrounded by family, after a long and courageous battle with cancer. She was born in Lewiston on June 8, 1951, a daughter of Roger and Madelyn (Doboga) Levesque Sr. She […]
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Anne LaRocca
LEWISTON — Anne LaRocca, 94, a resident of St. Mary’s d’Youville Pavilion in Lewiston, passed away peacefully Wednesday, March 8. She was born in Lewiston on Nov. 26, 1922, to John Liarakos and Stella Bezantakos Liarakos, and graduated from Lewiston High School in 1940. After working for the federal Office of Price Administration in Augusta […]
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One way to measure success id how your kids describe you
DEAR ABBY: My son and his wife just gave us the news that they are expecting their first child. They have waited five years for this wonderful milestone, and I am delighted. I know they will be excellent parents. I remember seeing a short poem in your column called ”Success.” Could you reprint it? I’d […]