WATERVILLE — Taylor Dawson pointed to her black and white photo of a cellar window that had been removed from a house and was leaning against it.
“Personally,” I thought it was very good,” she said.
Dawson, 11, entered her photograph in the Kids With Cameras Exhibit at the Hathaway Creative Center on Water Street.
April 2011
‘Time value of money’ crucial in pension payout
The letter from Neal Patterson (April 6) describes the state retirement system as “too generous” and “not sustainable.” Patterson presented the pensions of two “random acquaintances,” examining what they had paid into the system, and what they had been paid out of it. His figures were, indeed, unsettling. Then I noticed the flaw in Patterson’s […]
FAA official resigns over sleeping controllers
The head of the agency’s Air Traffic Organization resigns as the FAA adds a second overnight air traffic controller at more than two dozen airports around the country.
Maine woman gets 10 months for wedding fraud
Angela Roy of Sabattus arranged sham wedding ceremonies, and attended 16 of them, including her sister’s.
State treasurer urges pension reform
Bruce Poliquin says Maine will be in “one heck of a pickle” if steps are not taken to fully fund pension obligations for teachers and state workers.
Police logs for Winslow, Waterville, Oakland; arrests
Thefts, criminal mischief, shoplifting
Shuttered mills’ owner offers them to state
A pair of shuttered paper mills in Millinocket and East Millinocket could be spared from being dismantled if the state chooses to buy them for a dollar under terms of a deal that a San Francisco-based suitor walked away from late last week, the mills’ owner said today.
Bates College president is stepping down
LEWISTON — The president of Bates College in Maine is stepping down after nine years. Elaine Tuttle Hansen, the seventh president at Bates, said Wednesday she’ll step down in July to assume a new job elsewhere she said will be disclosed in the next two weeks. During her tenure, she increased student financial aid, boosted […]
GOP candidates descend on NH
CONCORD, N.H. — New Hampshire is seeing one of its busiest days yet for Republicans considering presidential campaigns. Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, and former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty all will be in the state today. Santorum and Pawlenty will be sticking around until Friday, when they’ll be joined by former […]