Connecticut is considering eliminating the state’s religious exemptions from certain vaccines for public school students.
February 2020
Posted inBusiness, Nation & World
Some worry if New York’s coming plastic bag ban is enough
A loophole could let stores hand out plastic bags thick enough to be considered suitable for multiple uses.
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Posted inArts & Entertainment
Museum’s Rembrandt knockoff turns out to be the real thing
A nearly 400-year-old painting that had long been attributed to someone in Rembrandt’s workshop has now been judged to have been a work of the Dutch master himself
Posted inTimes Record
Brunswick woman asking for return of her concrete elephant
Liz Croston returned home Wednesday evening to discover one of two 150-pound concrete elephants posted by her front door had gone missing.
Posted inNew England
Massachusetts police fatally shoot man connected to carjackings, stabbing
The two carjackings occurred Sunday in Lowell, Mass., and Nashua, N.H.
Posted inNation & World, Sports
Mickey Wright, golf great and early LPGA force, dies at 85
She joined the LPGA in 1955 and the Hall of Famer’s 82 wins place her second on the all-time list.
Posted inBoston Red Sox, Sports
Tom Caron: Red Sox owner explains why Mookie had to go
John Henry says of the unpopular trade: ‘We could not sit on our hands and lose him next offseason without getting value in return.’
Posted inLocal & State, Nation & World, New England, News, Uncategorized
LGBT bereavement groups give support for unacknowledged loss
Groups specifically geared to the LGBT community are a recent phenomenon even in Massachusetts, where same-sex marriage was legalized in 2004.
Posted inBusiness, Nation & World, News, Uncategorized
Former UAW President Owen Bieber dies at 90
He led the United Auto Workers union from the industry’s dark days of the early 1980s to the prosperity of the mid-1990s.
Posted inTimes Record
Photo: Sledding with a smile
Gina Perow, Harpswell recreation director, said the annual Harpswell Community Snow Day is designed to help community members meet one another because “The geography of Harpswell is so unique it can create this divide in the community.”