Bath Fitter salesman Rick Gauthier speaks with Jessica Argraves, right, and her daughter, Amber, during the Manchester Lions Club Home & Garden Show at the Augusta Civic Center. The 38th annual show was a success, according to Manchester Lions officer Mike Ponti, with “good turnout” during the weekend.
April 2011
HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL NOTEBOOK: Cony begins to tune up
Cony played a pair of tough opponents Saturday, meeting both Bangor and Cheverus at Mansfield Stadium in Bangor.
Small plane hits house
BIDDEFORD — A single-engine plane crashed into a home here Sunday night and set it on fire.
Legislation could lower ticket prices for movies
AUGUSTA — If cookie distributors worked the way film distribution works, you would only be able to buy that new cookie at one store, and not necessarily the store that has the best price. That is the issue behind legislation that would have the state set parameters on movie distribution in the state.
Natural gas pipeline backers seek support
Municipal officials from a dozen central Maine communities are digging into a $70 million proposal for a natural gas pipeline, attempting to answer a big question.
DISTRICT COURT
AUGUSTA — Here is a list of cases closed between March 31 and April 6 in Augusta District Court:
Maine’s crucial role in Civil War honored in sesquicentennial
AUGUSTA — The remaining 254 soldiers of the 16th Maine Regiment’s 900 men — ravaged by disease, days marching and nights spent on the frozen ground with no blankets — stood their ground on the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863.
Funding running out for court program
AUGUSTA — The graduation this week of five more people from the intensive supervision of a special court program proved bittersweet to the judge who has presided over it.
Caitlin Stratton wins Maine Water Conference poster competition
Caitlin Stratton recently won the undergraduate research project poster competition at the Maine Water Conference held in Augusta.