Tonight’s “Survivor” will see Benton native Ashley Underwood making it to “the merge,” a seminal moment in each season of the reality TV show when the two tribes fuse and team play gives way to individual scrambling.
April 2011
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Embezzlement suspect lived as virtual ‘Queenie’
Bettysue Higgins, 53, of Gardiner, stands accused of embezzling $166,000 from the Maine Trial Lawyers Association during a four-year period.
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Low-achieving status could net school $4M
Oak Hill High School in Wales is now eligible for up to $4 million in federal funding to raise academic achievement after it was named Tuesday to a list of Maine’s persistently low-achieving schools.
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Unfunded liability is state’s debt, not employees’
In the letter from Greg Paquet on March 29, he criticized the Maine State Employees Association for criticizing Paul LePage’s proposal to deal with the unfunded liability without offering a solution. Paquet seems to misunderstand the unfunded liability, which exists solely because the state failed to fund its portion of the costs of the state […]
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Secret societies cannot win as long as we know God
We live in an age where the Sheriff of Nottingham has a computer, and Robin Hood and his Merry Men have been sent to therapy for an “attitude adjustment.” It does not take a rocket scientist to see that the United States has drifted enormously away from her constitutional moorings toward shipwreck on the rocks […]
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NBA: Celtics roll past 76ers
BOSTON (AP) — Rajon Rondo scored 16 points with 13 assists and the Boston Celtics moved into a tie for the No. 2 seed in the Eastern Conference by beating the Philadelphia 76ers 99-82 on Tuesday night.
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MLB: Red Sox lose fourth straight to start season
CLEVELAND — Josh Tomlin outpitched Boston’s Josh Beckett, Cleveland came up with just enough timely hits and the Indians kept the Red Sox winless so far this season with a 3-1 victory Tuesday night over the team many predicted would win it all.
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Maine Yankee casks need protection, says official
WISCASSET — It’s been 15 years since Maine Yankee produced nuclear power on Bailey Point, but the spent nuclear fuel stored in 64 dry cask storage containers still has the potential to release “19 times more radioactivity than Chernobyl” in the event of a natural or manmade disaster, according a senior scholar at the Institute for Policy Research in Washington, D.C.