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Planes ready to depart Brunswick base

BRUNSWICK, Maine - The rumble of Navy patrol aircraft flying overhead will soon be a thing of the past as the remaining P-3 Orions depart from Brunswick Naval Air Station. While much of the nation prepares for Thanksgiving, air crews from VP-26 are ...

From DAVID SHARP, Boston Globe,  21 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Mike Parker

Planes ready to leave Brunswick, Maine Navy base

BRUNSWICK, Maine—The rumble of Navy patrol aircraft flying overhead will soon be a thing of the past as the remaining P-3 Orions depart from Brunswick Naval Air Station. While much of the nation prepares for Thanksgiving, air crews from VP-26 are ...

From DAVID SHARP, Boston Globe,  21 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Mike Parker

Guard advancing low-level flight plan over Maine

PORTLAND, Maine—Over the governor's objections, the Air National Guard is moving forward with a proposal that would double the amount land over which F-15 and F-16 fighters are allowed to conduct low-level training over western Maine and part of New ...

From DAVID SHARP, Boston Globe,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: National Guard,  John Baldacci

Intrepid Maine troop greeters age along with wars

BANGOR, Maine - Jerry Mundy rarely misses an opportunity to extend his hand and offer thanks to young soldiers and Marines returning home, or departing for the war zone, during their brief layovers at the nation's easternmost major airport, a refueling ...

From DAVID SHARP, Access Atlanta Vendor,  10 Nov 2009

Related Topics: PBS

Documentary on Maine troop greeters to air on PBS

BANGOR, Maine Jerry Mundy rarely misses an opportunity to extend his hand and offer thanks to young soldiers and Marines returning home, or departing for the war zone, during their brief layovers at the nation's easternmost major airport, a refueling ...

From DAVID SHARP, San Diego Union-Tribune,  10 Nov 2009

Related Topics: PBS

Documentary focuses on Maine troop greeters

BANGOR, Maine - A volunteer group that has greeted each and every troop flight at Maine's Bangor International Airport since 2003 is about to get some major exposure. ...

From DAVID SHARP, Access Atlanta Vendor,  10 Nov 2009

Related Topics: PBS

Gay marriage foes win with message about schools

SAN FRANCISCO Gay marriage opponents pulled off another victory at the ballot box this week by using a tried-and-tested argument: Approve it and children will be taught homosexuality in school. Voters seemed to be swayed by the message, both in Maine ...

From LISA LEFF AND DAVID SHARP, San Diego Union-Tribune,  6 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Focus on the Family

Schools emerge as new tactic in gay marriage votes

SAN FRANCISCO—In one ad after another, voters in California and Maine were besieged with images of what would supposedly happen if same-sex marriage were legal: Students on a field trip to a lesbian wedding, elementary kids gobbling up books featuring ...

From LISA LEFF AND DAVID SHARP, Boston Globe,  6 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Focus on the Family,  University of California Berkeley

Stakes are high in Maine's vote on gay marriage

Nate Basting, left, and Shaun Dow, both of Portland, participate in a gay marriage rally, the day before election day in Portland, Maine, on Monday, Nov. 2, 2009. Gay marriage legislation was approved by Maine's Legislature earlier in the year however ...

From DAVID SHARP AND DAVID CRARY, San Diego Union-Tribune,  3 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  John Baldacci,  Jon Corzine,  Bob McDonnell,  Michael Bloomberg

Founder of Dead Poets Society visits bards' graves

CUNDY'S HARBOR, Maine - On the big screen, the leader of the Dead Poets Society at an all-boys prep school was an inspirational teacher played by Robin Williams. ...

From DAVID SHARP, Atlanta Journal Constitution Vendor,  2 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Robin Williams,  Walt Whitman,  Robert Frost,  U.S. Congress,  Henry Timrod

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