HALLOWELL — The city is on its way to approving a tax break for the construction of a $85 million natural gas pipeline in central Maine.
December 2011
Senator Inn & Spa offering free rooms to families facing emergency hardship
AUGUSTA — Senator Inn & Spa is participating in a “Home for the Holidays” program that provides free rooms to families who have children or relatives in the hospital, and to families facing an emergency hardship, through Dec. 30.
Ongoing bottle drive benefits Hallowell Veterans Memorial
HALLOWELL — A bottle drive to benefit the Hallowell Veterans Memorial at Legion Park in the Hallowell Cemetery is available at Bottoms Up Beverage Redemption Center behind Damons on Western Avenue in Augusta.
Kennebec Valley Coaching offers upcoming exercise, weight loss programs
AUGUSTA — Kennebec Valley Coaching, 320 Water St., will offer four new fitness classes beginning in January — Senior Strides functional fitness class for older adults; Stoller Rollers Snowed In, an indoor fitness class for mothers and their children; and The Fifty and Hundred Pound clubs, exercise groups designed for people with specific weight loss goals.
Sylvan Learning Center offers free math camp during Christmas vacation week
AUGUSTA — Sylvan Learning Center will offer a free math camp, Fraction Action, from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. Dec. 27-31 at the center, 249 Western Ave.
Panel: Ban texting, phones, emails while driving
WASHINGTON — Texting, emailing or chatting on a cellphone while driving is simply too dangerous to be allowed, federal safety investigators declared Tuesday, urging all states to impose total bans except for emergencies.
City may ban tobacco use on its property
AUGUSTA — A proposed ban on smoking and other forms of tobacco use on all city property, even outdoors, goes before city councilors on Thursday.
Supreme Court upholds life sentences for Fortune
The state’s highest court on Tuesday ruled that Daniel L. Fortune will remain behind bars for life for his role in a Pittston home invasion that left a father and his 10-year-old daughter maimed.
Chelsea selectmen to talk about revalution
CHELSEA — Selectmen at tonight’s meeting will discuss a proposal for the town’s first-ever professional revaluation of property values.
Winslow town council approves 180-day moratorium on sale of fireworks
WINSLOW — The town council Monday narrowly approved a moratorium on the sale of fireworks.