The company owns mills in Skowhegan and Westbrook and has a corporate office in South Portland.
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Sappi reducing work force by 5 percent nationwide
The company owns mills in Skowhegan and Westbrook and has a corporate office in South Portland.
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World Health Organization: MERS not an emergency
The majority of cases have been in Saudi Arabia, although the disease has spread within the region and to Asia, North Africa, Europe and the United States.
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GREETINGS FROM ZIP CODE 04074: Unwanted hand-me-downs
It’s that time of year again graduations! Here is the graduation speech I would give this year, if I were still delivering occasional graduation speeches (I’m not): Welcome, graduates of 2014. High school or college. You have a tough row to hoe ahead of you. You may have heard – the economy is either still […]
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GREETINGS FROM ZIP CODE 04074: Unwanted hand-me-downs
It’s that time of year again graduations! Here is the graduation speech I would give this year, if I were still delivering occasional graduation speeches (I’m not): Welcome, graduates of 2014. High school or college. You have a tough row to hoe ahead of you. You may have heard – the economy is either still […]
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POLITICS & OTHER MISTAKES: The truth ain’t what it seems
The truth, some idiot of a television scriptwriter once wrote, is out there. Let’s hope it stays as far away as possible. Because if it wanders within range of a politician, there’s a danger it’ll be captured and genetically mutated to suit whatever agenda this particular pol is pushing. Truth, as anyone with more brains […]
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THE TWO GOVERNORS
GOV. PAUL LePAGE, R-Maine AGE: 65 BIRTHPLACE: Lewiston BIGGEST ACCOMPLISHMENT: Enacting a $400 million income tax cut package FAMOUS GAFFE: LePage said state Sen. Troy Jackson, D-Allagash, “claims to be for the people but he’s the first one to give it to the people without providing Vaseline.” PERCENTAGE OF VOTE IN LAST ELECTION (2010): 37.6 […]
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ON THE RGHT LANE: Addition by politician
It’s kind of a funny thing because sometimes I might struggle to find a topic to write about and then along comes someone from government and then I have too much to material, which I have to wade through to select enough to fill a column. This week along came the latest unemployment figures as […]
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LETERS: Sign still missing
One year ago, on a sunny May spring Sunday, the four-way intersection of Libby Avenue and Main Street/Route 25 in Gorham was the scene of a multiple vehicle crash. A few years earlier, this same intersection witnessed a violent crash involving a loaded gravel dump truck with a truck that carries large portable steel Dumpsters, […]
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LETERS: Sign still missing
One year ago, on a sunny May spring Sunday, the four-way intersection of Libby Avenue and Main Street/Route 25 in Gorham was the scene of a multiple vehicle crash. A few years earlier, this same intersection witnessed a violent crash involving a loaded gravel dump truck with a truck that carries large portable steel Dumpsters, […]