Hear Maine civil war stories and read our Sunday story. CHARLESTON, S.C. — Cannons will boom in the wee hours around Charleston Harbor, recreating the bombardment of Fort Sumter that plunged the nation into the Civil War on April 12, 1861. The South Carolina ceremony Tuesday begins the four-year national commemoration of the 150th […]
April 2011
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Bill sets goals for fossil fuel reduction
AUGUSTA — A bill setting ambitious goals for reducing the use of fossil fuels in Maine has won the support of a legislative committee. The Energy, Utilities and Technology Committee voted Monday in favor of legislation to extend an existing requirement, which reduces the use of liquid fossil fuels for heating by 30 percent by […]
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Hearing today on 2 percent bike sales tax
AUGUSTA — Maine lawmakers are considering a bill that would add a 2 percent surcharge on retail bicycle sales to fund the construction of bikeways. The Department of Transportation is holding a hearing today on the bill that would establish a “bikeway construction fund.” The bill, sponsored by Rep. Ralph Sarty of Denmark, says the […]
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Health group unveils quality care website
The website allows patients to look up a medical condition or procedure and see which are the top-rated doctors and hospitals in and around their communities.
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MLB: Rays crush Red Sox
BOSTON — The Tampa Bay Rays were certainly overdue for a big offensive game. Sam Fuld went 4 for 6 with a two-run homer, drove in three runs and fell a single shy of the cycle to help the Rays bust out of an early-season slump with a 16-5 win over the Boston Red Sox on Monday night.
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NBA: Celtics sit 4 starters, lose to Wizards
WASHINGTON — Even in a game that went to overtime, the most interesting spectacle was the quartet of Kevin Garnett, Ray Allen, Paul Pierce and Rajon Rondo sitting on the Boston Celtics’ bench.
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Attorney general defends labor mural’s removal
PORTLAND — Gov. Paul LePage’s administration was exercising its right to “government speech” when it removed a labor history mural from the state Labor Department headquarters, the Maine attorney general said Monday.
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SNAPSHOT: Locks of love
Hairdresser Holly Carlezon pins Aurora Estey’s hair Monday in the lobby of the Randall Student Center at the University of Maine at Augusta while collecting hair for Locks of Love. Faculty, staff and students and their children donated hair to young patients enduring enduring follicle loss due to severe medical conditions during the event. The […]
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Maine has not forgotten
Jennifer Babb, of Augusta, arranges a display case Monday containing a traditional Russian costume from the Samantha Smith collection at the Maine State Museum in Augusta. A goodwill ambassador to the Soviet Union in 1983, many of Smith’s possessions were donated to the State of Maine after she passed away in 1985. The exhibition will […]
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Workshops teach how to grow high-grade pot
PORTLAND — Ray Logan has been growing marijuana for 30 years.
When he started, it was a purely recreational — and illegal — hobby, and one he naturally kept as quiet as possible.