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Re: Pig Out BBQ seating expansion denied due to lack of parking
By Laurie Lee Allen - Jun 191. Planning Board Approved/City Council Approved WITHOUT CONDITIONS. GO CURSE OUT AND ACCOST CITY HALL. They inflict witch hunt after witch hunt ...
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Re: A closer look at the "funnies" in Finland?
By Lawrence Butler - Jun 19Art, This was a delightful Finnish lesson since the sarcastic remark was an inside joke: Venäläinen means Russian in Finnish, but it is also the ...
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Re: Funny cider and exploding deer
By Tanya Mitchell - Jun 18Any time, John. I had a blast!
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Re: Pig Out BBQ seating expansion denied due to lack of parking
By Harold Richardson - Jun 18Not one of the retail stores or restaurants in the downtown area provide the parking they are supposed to have. If the Pig-Out smoke is a problem, ...
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Re: Lincolnville news
By Norman D Carver - Jun 18I am sorry for anyone that loses their job due to budget restraints or business decisions but Chief Young has a better than average severance ...
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Re: John Ford Sr. author of "This Cider Still Tastes Funny" at Beyond The Sea in Lincolnville Beach. July 27th
By Jody Dinsmore - Jun 17Fantastic books..just finished both! Job well done!!
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Re: Lincolnville abolishes police department
By russell g york - Jun 17i welcome northeast its way over due forchange
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Re: Lincolnville abolishes police department
By Jeff Grinnell - Jun 17Solid support of public safety....nice job. The mouthy minority wins.
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Re: Letters, June 20
By Laurie Lee Allen - Jun 17To think of Belfast gaining more control when residents have zero control has got to change. Taken from www.belfastspeaks.blogspot.com DON'T FIGHT ...
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Re: Lincolnville abolishes police department
By Mary A McKeever - Jun 16The town was darn lucky to have Julia for all her years of service...she now deserves her leisure....sleeping beyond 2: AM. Mickey McKeever
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Re: Withdrawal could get second chance due to voter support
By Laurie Lee Allen - Jun 16Keep the information coming people. www.waldokids.blogspot.com 6/16/13- Below is an anonymous (at this time) post for the blog taken from public ...
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Re: Happy Father’s Day Weekend from Seasons of Smiles Dental
By Norman Medina - Jun 16Thank you son. :) ~
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Re: Happy Father’s Day Weekend from Seasons of Smiles Dental
By Norman Medina - Jun 16:) <p style="text-align: justify;"><a title="Thank you son!" ~
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Re: Lincolnville abolishes police department
By Edwin Ecker - Jun 15Good move !
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Re: Oceanside nails down school's first state championship
By russell g york - Jun 15Congratulations to everyone, so nice to see community pride. JOB WELL DONE!!!!!
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Re: Oceanside nails down school's first state championship
By Dagney C. Ernest - Jun 15They just came through Thomaston, whoot!
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Re: Oceanside nails down state championship
By Richard McKusic, Sr. - Jun 15Welcome them home at Oceanside East At 4PM.
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Re: Robert McCloskey's Books & Matching T-shirts
By jane babbitt - Jun 15Um...did you proofread this?
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Re: Withdrawal could get second chance due to voter support
By Laurie Lee Allen - Jun 15volunteer @ ~ is disturbing and excerpt from blog) Waldo Kids 6/15/13 Intent on this blog is for open forum for information and support to ...
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Re: Judith Linda McMahon
By Bridget & Richard ... - Jun 14Such a joy and light filled photo of a beloved mother, sister, daughter friend. Such an amazing life. Blessings on all of her loved ones.
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Re: Funny cider and exploding deer
By JOHN FORD - Jun 14MANY THANKS to Tanya for doing this story..It was agreat afternoon with many great friends and a whole lot of laughs..
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Re: John Ford Sr. author of "This Cider Still Tastes Funny" at Beyond The Sea in Lincolnville Beach. July 27th
By JOHN FORD - Jun 14Thanks Richard, hopefully at oen of these tours, you'll be there,,It would be fun to reminsce
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Re: Withdrawal effort fails due to poor turnout
By Roxanna Morse - Jun 14I recommend we consider what our students want, what would give them the best educational experience. Few of them can vote yet, but their input is ...
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Re: RSU 20 teacher appreciation letter contained plagiarized material
By Roxanna Morse - Jun 14Just quickly, Sir, the "Captain's source" is not attributable to one individual, officially. It is part of the 20th Maine legend, but not documente...
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Re: RSU 20 teacher appreciation letter contained plagiarized material
By Jeff Davis - Jun 14No ma'am. This issue is dead. Nice battle cry though. I hope the captain remembered to cite his source.
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Re: Withdrawal could get second chance due to voter support
By Roxanna Morse - Jun 14I too wonder about the legality of this: Requiring 50% voter participation is specious and arbitrary beyond the referendum petition stage of the ...
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Re: RSU 20 teacher appreciation letter contained plagiarized material
By Roxanna Morse - Jun 14Good one, Mr. Jefferson Davis: I suspect Captain Stevens would counsel, "Stand firm, ye boys from Maine!" No disrespect intended--you set me up, ...
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Re: Withdrawal effort fails due to poor turnout
By Debora Riley - Jun 14This is so disturbing. We're supposed to be setting a good example for the kids. I guess that means different things to different people. I was ...
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Re: Withdrawal could get second chance due to voter support
By Debora Riley - Jun 14I don't know about anyone else, but I don't want to serve on another withdrawal committee. One time around is more than enough. Better things to ...
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Re: Rod McElroy
By Lori Jones - Jun 14Great story about our beloved Mr. McElroy..he touched so many in our community. He will be sorely missed and forever remembered. Thanks for ...
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Re: Will The Real Service Dog Please Stand Up!
By Peter Rollins - Jun 14The problem with service dogs is that people can apply to have any dog registered as a service dog. There are businesses in Florida where wealthy ...
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Re: Withdrawal could get second chance due to voter support
By Laurie Lee Allen - Jun 14Belfast Shame Hall. Getting into a legal battle is their forte'. City Attorney's and opposing attorney salivating at each opportunity to which ...
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Re: Withdrawal effort fails due to poor turnout
By Ray Wirth - Jun 13The withdrawal committee was well-organized and put out a huge effort and got an impressive proportion of the vote -- of those who do vote. Withdra...
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Re: Withdrawal effort fails due to poor turnout
By mike hurley - Jun 13total 2543 votes in 6 towns. 2012 voted YES to withdraw. 531 voted NO to withdraw. 79.1 % YES and 20.8% NO.
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Re: Withdrawal could get second chance due to voter support
By Joyce C Scott - Jun 13Who would believe a committee that would sit in front of a town and out and out lie to everyone in the community about not being able to consider ...
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Re: Stockton Springs Report
By Jeff Davis - Jun 13The Stockton Springs town meeting will be held in the Stockton Springs Elementary School, not the town hall. I apologize for the error.
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Re: HAPPY ANNIVERSARY
By ALANA ROWE - Jun 13Hope you have a Happy Anniversary...God Bless you.
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Re: Lincolnville passes charter change
By KERYN LAITE - Jun 13The town would not be divided like it is and rehashing this issue again if the birth of the Lincolnville Police De[partment had originally been ...
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Re: John Ford Sr. author of "This Cider Still Tastes Funny" at Beyond The Sea in Lincolnville Beach. July 12th
By Richard McKusic, Sr. - Jun 13Really glad to see John has put his fine storytelling into book form. Am looking forward to reading it since he always stirs up a memory or brings ...
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Re: Lincolnville passes charter change
By pat putnam - Jun 13That's one opinion for sure.
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Re: RSU 20 teacher appreciation letter contained plagiarized material
By Jeff Davis - Jun 13I guess the problem is more widespread than first reported. Albert Stevens knows about it and he died in 1949. One of y'all need to get down to ...
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Re: Searsport celebrates Class of 2013
By Forest Taber - Jun 12For more photos of the class of 2013, with special guest Spiderman, follow this link: ~
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Re: Withdrawal effort fails due to poor turnout
By Laurie Lee Allen - Jun 12As Mayor Ash Says "This is your opportunity folks." And it is. Just saw another failing district turned around by community involvement. Many ...
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Re: Judith Linda McMahon
By Catherine Cooper - Jun 12What a lovely tribute to what appears to be a beautiful lady!
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Re: RSU 20 teacher appreciation letter contained plagiarized material
By CAPT ALBERT STEVENS - Jun 12This is the fourth time that I know of that the superintendent plagarized online documents.
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Re: RSU 20 teacher appreciation letter contained plagiarized material
By Gene Newton - Jun 12Mr. Davis, I am not sure you are recognizing the situation. This is the second time publicly that Mr. Carpenter has been accused of plagarism. ...
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Re: RSU 20 teacher appreciation letter contained plagiarized material
By Jeff Davis - Jun 12I'm trying to catch up. But, you keep jumping back and forth between two issues, Mr. Carpenter, the plagiarist and Mr. Carpenter, the budget ...
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Re: RSU 20 withdrawal effort fails, budget likely to fail
By Laurie Lee Allen - Jun 12I recant- lets get the 100% who care together. The division that this caused needs immediate repair and some people need to go. Both sides know ...
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Re: RSU 20 withdrawal effort fails, budget likely to fail
By Laurie Lee Allen - Jun 12From a facebook parent I am so disappointed! There must be a solution. 75% of the people who took time to vote want withdrawal. At the very least ...
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Re: Lincolnville passes charter change
By Edwin Ecker - Jun 12Lincolnville doesn't need a full time cop.It had a constable for years and that worked just fine.There are more than enough local LE around to ...
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Re: Searsport celebrates Class of 2013
By Sharon Catus - Jun 11Great job NOT covering the event! Thank goodness for Forest Taber, or you wouldn't even a picture. There IS life North of the river! You would do ...
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Re: SDHS' Tripp, Bean honored by Penobscot Valley Conference
By Lisa Tripp - Jun 11Great Job Emily!!
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Re: Searsport celebrates Class of 2013
By Roxanna Morse - Jun 11Zach, Buddy, Jake, and Alex, Congratulations, and may 2013 bring us another Red Sox World Series Championship. I keep our famous photo posted in ...
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Re: RSU 20 teacher appreciation letter contained plagiarized material
By Roxanna Morse - Jun 11The great irony is that our superintendent identified library ed techs as "not impacting students or programs." Sorry, Mr. Davis and Mr. Fowles, ...
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Re: Paul E. Badger
By April Small - Jun 11I am so sorry Jewel ..I wish I had had a chance to see Paul... I can still remember all the fun we had as kids... My condolences to you and his ...
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Re: Coyote Moon goes solar with new panel array
By kelly a Kelsey-Davis - Jun 11this is FABULOUS....thank you Michelle for this earth friendly choice!!!!!
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Re: 11 Things Withdrawal Folks Don't Want You to Think About:
By Joyce C Scott - Jun 10There is no magic solution. Education has a lot of bumps ahead and needs to have a great many dedicated folks continue to address what is needed ...
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Re: 11 Things Withdrawal Folks Don't Want You to Think About:
By Ray Wirth - Jun 10"RSU 20 is a 21st Century Learning Community providing high quality education, enabling our students to meet the challenges of contemporary life. ...
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Re: Voters to decide whether to continue budget referendum validation process
By Charles Hamm - Jun 10Please get out and vote on the withdrawal and the school budget on June 11th. I realize there are many contradicting statements being made ...
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Re: Editorial — The answer to school budget woes
By mike hurley - Jun 10There is no question in my mind that a new SAD or RSU with the six towns is the way to have a better system at a lower cost. Vote YES to withdraw.
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Re: 11 Things Withdrawal Folks Don't Want You to Think About:
By Steven Hutchings - Jun 10Ray you are amazing. The withdrawal teams have been meeting for almost a year, sometimes 2 meetings a week, sought input numerous times from an ...
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Re: 11 Things Withdrawal Folks Don't Want You to Think About:
By Gene Newton - Jun 10Correct. It unequivocally will unless town valuations radically change or the state EPS formula is changed. Based on what is known and can be ...
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Re: RSU 20 teacher appreciation letter contained plagiarized material
By Virgil Fowles Jr - Jun 10"Mountain out of a mole hill" A well intended "thank you" Can we be any more picky when there is so many more important things to "bitch" about?
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Re: RSU 20 teacher appreciation letter contained plagiarized material
By Roxanna Morse - Jun 09Thanks for your well-intended opposition. Maybe t Thank you for your well-intended opposition.
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Re: Voters to decide whether to continue budget referendum validation process
By Laurie Lee Allen - Jun 08How much does it cost to send the budget back? Bruce Mailloux said it is expensive and can go back many times. So much wasted in the mistrust of ...
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Re: RSU 20 teacher appreciation letter contained plagiarized material
By Jeff Davis - Jun 08Serial Plagiarists? Really? Give you money and you shall protect the offended as well as the offender? Well, thank you. But I don't feel the ...
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Re: RSU 20 teacher appreciation letter contained plagiarized material
By Roxanna Morse - Jun 07Since access to information via Google (and even more credible database sources) has become available--instantly!--the need for acknowledging ...
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Re: Friends of Sears Island receive $4,900 grant
By Ronald Huber - Jun 07Thanks Steve. I'd spoken to some folks at the PenBbay stewards' get together the other day; nobody was sure. The best "management" of a wild ...
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Re: Voters to decide whether to continue budget referendum validation process
By Jeff Davis - Jun 07Having attended the meeting that Mr. Wood is writing about, I understand what he means. However, I don't mind being booed. You can't please ...
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Re: Join us for lunch today at Fresh!
By brian krum - Jun 07halibut?
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Re: ‘LOBSTER ART!’ theme for festival
By Kelly A. Woods - Jun 07We're thrilled to welcome Mike Miller as this year's Grand Marshal, and we can't wait to see what participants create around the theme! For the ...
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Re: Voters to decide whether to continue budget referendum validation process
By Joyce C Scott - Jun 07I think it is very important to continue the referendum process. The entire community deserves to have a voice at the polls on budgets that ...
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Re: City considering banning dogs from cemeteries
By A L M - Jun 07The cemetery is not a dog park! This is a place where family and friends go to pay their respects and honor their deceased loved ones. Allowing ...
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Re: Friends of Sears Island receive $4,900 grant
By Stephen Miller - Jun 07The Sears Island consensus agreement signed by MDOT and others says: "The entire island shall be managed consistent with the terms of the buffer ...
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Re: Editorial — The answer to school budget woes
By Alan Wood - Jun 07What is working well for this district is best said in the elementary schools. Teachers from Ames School to Searsport Elementary are very united ...
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Re: Editorial — The answer to school budget woes
By Harold Richardson - Jun 06Ms Riley-The cuts proposed by the board were a Hobson's choice for a community like Belfast. Did anyone really think that cutting the arts or the ...
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Re: Editorial — The answer to school budget woes
By Debora Riley - Jun 06Well written response with one exception. The current school board presented a budget May 30, 2013, that was increased about $850,000.00 by the ...
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Re: Editorial — The answer to school budget woes
By Diana B Hyk - Jun 06A well reasoned editorial, true and complete consolidation is the ONLY way to save money. Regrettably the Teachers Union will fight it tooth and ...
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Re: Letter to the editor
By Debora Riley - Jun 06Mr. Richardson, as Mr. Hamm and Mr. Hutchings are well aware, I too served countless hours on Northport's Withdrawal Committee and attended many ...
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Re: Letter to the editor
By Harold Richardson - Jun 06Other than an outrageous tax bill I have no dog in this fight. It does seem to me that the withdrawal committee has been under unfair attack for ...
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Re: Letter to the editor
By Charles Hamm - Jun 06It is predicated on research. It is not meant to be mean and I really wish you would stand down a bit. Read what school board members are saying ...
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Re: Letter to the editor
By Ray Wirth - Jun 06Most things in the world are not quite that absolute. Mr. Hamm's comments seem based on the belief that the schools in Searsport are necessarily ...
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Re: Letter to the editor
By Charles Hamm - Jun 06Here are our choices. 1. Close schools and truly consolidate...... 2. cut and gut programs........ 3. pay and pay higher taxes..... 4. withdraw ...
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Re: Goodbye, hello
By Tanya Mitchell - Jun 06Sarah - What a nice column. Thanks for the shout out! We miss you and wish you the best with your new post at The Camden Herald. Knox County is ...
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Re: Letter to the editor
By Joyce C Scott - Jun 06It is very heartening to hear that there really is another side to withdrawal. I am happy to hear many people have concerns for all of the ...
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Re: Friends of Sears Island receive $4,900 grant
By Ronald Huber - Jun 06Good for FOSI. A question: . The release wrote: "At this time, FOSI was entrusted with stewardship of the island,..." Is that the whole of Sears ...
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Re: Letter to the editor
By Debora Riley - Jun 06Well put, Mr. Wirth and Mr. Newton. If you had negotiated for the school board across the table from Mr. Hutchings you would've known early on he ...
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Re: Horch Roofing Sends All Employees To Safety Conference
By Kerry Hadley - Jun 06Bravo to Horch Roofing, Phi Home Designs and other companies who sponsored this event or sent employees. I can't think of a better way to hit home ...
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Re: Letter to the Editor: Don't Withdraw, Move Forward
By Alan Wood - Jun 06Ray, your thinking is so positive and reflective of Belfast & Searsport can work with the smaller towns for the educational benefit of all ...
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Re: Letter to the editor
By Alan Wood - Jun 06We all need to congratulate Searsport-Stockton Springs for taking a leadership role in the education of our chilren. I feel the outlining towns ...
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Re: Mother, daughter business offers digs for kids
By Linda Hall Lord - Jun 06So pleased to read about you new shop. Can't wait to see it and to pick up items for the little ones in my family. Thank you for persuing this ...
