L.L. Bean sales down in 2009
FREEPORT — Sales dipped for L.L. Bean for the second consecutive year in 2009 but the outdoors clothing retailer managed to beat its own projections, the company said Friday. The company also reported that online sales outpaced catalog orders for the entire year for the first time.
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Determined to succeed
WATERVILLE -- They practice hard, and with a purpose.As the two-time defending conference champions, the Colby women's lacrosse team knows how much other teams want to knock off the queens.
OUR OPINION: ‘Low-achieving’ school list not necessarily bad
It would be easy to misread this week’s announcement of the state’s 10 “persistently low-achieving schools.”
This is not a list of the worst schools in the state, or even a list of failing schools. Not every school was included in the evaluation process, including some schools with serious problems.
What the list really represents is an opportunity for school districts that serve low-income students to break out of a negative cycle and make a difference f...
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PARTY OF TWO: Follow the turkeys if you want to
It’s amazing how much my daughter is like me.
She is bossy, opinionated, always has to have the last word. And when she sets her mind to something, there is no stopping her.
But the way she is most like me lies in the endless stream of questions forever flowing from her fresh little mind.
“Mama,” she will say. “Do dinosaurs have ankles?”
Then she will wait for an answer, as though she simply asked what day of the week it is.
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Electric providers announce merger
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Jury finds island lobsterman not guilty in shooting
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L.L. Bean sales down in 2009
FREEPORT — Sales dipped for L.L. Bean for the second consecutive year in 2009 but the outdoors clothing retailer managed to beat its own projections, the company said Friday. The c ...
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Behind cheers lurk Pirates fans' fears
Drawn to the family-friendly entertainment, hockey lovers across the region worry about the unthinkable.
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US avoids anti-abortion debate at UN meeting
A U.N. meeting to assess progress in advancing the fight for women's equality that ended Friday had a dramatically different slant than a similar session held five years ago: This time, the United States was not trying to make an anti-abortion declaration a crucial theme. Much of the 2005 meeting to take stock of what countries had do ...
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