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Eagle swimmers wrap up PVCs, look to state championships
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Eagle swimmers wrap up PVCs, look to state championships

BLUE HILL—Eagle swimmers are headed to the Maine state championships next week despite relatively low team scores at the Penobscot Valley Conference championships on February 8 at the University of Maine at Orono.

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2/13/2020
Mariner boys face tough quarterfinal
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Mariner boys face tough quarterfinal

DEER ISLE—The boys basketball team beat an improved Searsport team 63-42 on February 4.

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2/13/2020
Eagle boys team ready for playoff push
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Eagle boys team ready for playoff push

BLUE HILL—The George Stevens Academy boys team has made a tradition of being in the title mix during the last five seasons in the high school boys basketball tournament at the Cross Insurance Center.

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2/13/2020
Techlife News

Universities Cancel Study-Abroad Programs Amid Virus Fears

As concerns about China’s virus outbreak spread, universities all over the world are scrambling to assess the risks to their programs, and some are canceling study-abroad opportunities and prohibiting travel affecting hundreds of thousands of students.

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February 8, 2020
ODE
The Atlantic

ODE

From the outside it looks steady.

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January - February 2020
MAKE AMERICA GRAZE AGAIN: THE LAST ROUNDUP
Mother Jones

MAKE AMERICA GRAZE AGAIN: THE LAST ROUNDUP

Will small farmers’ beef with Trump sway the 2020 election?

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January/February 2020
The Young and The Relentless
Mother Jones

The Young and The Relentless

The climate crisis generation is sick of waiting

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January/February 2020
The Weekly Packet

Sedgwick School Board approves 2020-21 budget

GSA tuition increase request kept separate.

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1/30/2020
Public access to Bakeman Beach guaranteed
The Weekly Packet

Public access to Bakeman Beach guaranteed

Recent gift by land trust welcomed by town of Brooksville

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1/30/2020
Eagles channel late momentum swing
The Weekly Packet

Eagles channel late momentum swing

BLUE HILL—Just three games away from a potential appearance in the postseason, the George Stevens Academy girls basketball team is looking to roll off some late-season momentum.

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1/30/2020
Mariners nab wins over Bucksport, Islesboro
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Mariners nab wins over Bucksport, Islesboro

10-3 record, ranked 7th

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1/30/2020
Eagles channel late momentum swing
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Eagles channel late momentum swing

BLUE HILL—Just three games away from a potential appearance in the postseason, the George Stevens Academy girls basketball team is looking to roll off some late-season momentum.

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1/30/2020
DIAA's “ART matters 5” features photography as art
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DIAA's “ART matters 5” features photography as art

DEER ISLE—The Deer Isle Artists Association brings three local photographers to speak at the February 2 “ART matters 5” program, Captured Images. Lydia Osgood Cassatt, Julie Cleveland and Woodley Osborne will discuss their work at 1:30 p.m. at the DIAA Gallery in the village.

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1/30/2020
DI-S girls basketball team in ‘a pretty solid second place'
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DI-S girls basketball team in ‘a pretty solid second place'

The girls basketball team beat Bucksport 53-40 on January 21.

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1/30/2020
After-school program helping students, but needs help
Island Ad-Vantages

After-school program helping students, but needs help

Must entice more teenagers, parents

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1/30/2020
Leaked Report Shows United Nations Suffered Hack
Techlife News

Leaked Report Shows United Nations Suffered Hack

The United Nations has been hacked.

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Sprint runners take top spots for GSA indoor track
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Sprint runners take top spots for GSA indoor track

ORONO—With just two more meets before the Small Schools Championship on February 8, runners on the George Stevens Academy boys and girls indoor track team took to the Fieldhouse on the University of Maine in Orono campus for a meet on January 18.

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1/23/2020
Island Women Speak 4.0
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Island Women Speak 4.0

Seven to tell their stories

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1/23/2020
GSA's undefeated season rolls on
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GSA's undefeated season rolls on

Boys basketball team 14-0

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1/23/2020
DI-S girls basketball team beats Machias, Searsport
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DI-S girls basketball team beats Machias, Searsport

The girls basketball team beat Machias 55-18 January 13.

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1/23/2020
China Virus Outbreak Rams Global Tourism, Costing Billions
AppleMagazine

China Virus Outbreak Rams Global Tourism, Costing Billions

Business around the world that have grown increasingly reliant on big-spending tourists from China are taking a heavy hit, with tens of millions of Chinese residents restricted from leaving their country as the coronavirus spreads.

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January 31, 2020
Can The WTO Survive Trump?
Bloomberg Markets

Can The WTO Survive Trump?

The U.S. president’s trade rampage has shaken a pillar of the rules-based postwar economic order

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February - March 2020
How To Become A Soup Legend
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How To Become A Soup Legend

Oliver's champion chowder shared at Winterfest

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1/23/2020
Mariner girls team rolls over Sumner
The Weekly Packet

Mariner girls team rolls over Sumner

DEER ISLE—On January 8, the girls basketball team won their only game last week easily, beating Sumner 56-21.

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1/16/2020
Eagles blow by Golden Bucks
The Weekly Packet

Eagles blow by Golden Bucks

BLUE HILL—The George Stevens Academy boys basketball team took the season sweep over the Golden Bucks of Bucksport at home on Friday, January 10, with a 69-37 win.

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1/16/2020
DI-S boys 8-2 after Jonesport loss, Sumner win
The Weekly Packet

DI-S boys 8-2 after Jonesport loss, Sumner win

DEER ISLE—The boys basketball team lost to an experienced Jonesport team 79-63 in front of a big crowd January 7.

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1/16/2020
The Tear of Allah
Reason magazine

The Tear of Allah

THE CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY CONFISCATED A SACRED METEORITE FROM MUSLIM HERDERS. THEY’RE SUING TO GET IT BACK.

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March 2020
MASSAGE PARLOR-PANIC
Reason magazine

MASSAGE PARLOR-PANIC

A POTENT COMBINATION OF PURITANISM, RACISM, AND POLITICAL OPPORTUNISM IS PUTTING ASIAN MASSEUSES AND THE PEOPLE WHO SUPPORT THEM IN NEEDLESS DANGER.

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March 2020
Techlife News

Next Stop, Brexit: Britain's EU Divorce Bill Becomes Law

Britain’s delayed and disputed Brexit bill became law on Thursday, removing the last U.K. obstacle to the country leaving the European Union in just over a week.

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January 25, 2020
Judge Napolitano on the Politics of Impeachment
Reason magazine

Judge Napolitano on the Politics of Impeachment

In two decades at the nation’s largest cable network, Fox News analyst Andrew Napolitano has provided an unapologetically libertarian critique of state power, regardless of the party holding control in the nation’s capital.

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March 2020