FAIRFIELD — In a typical day, David Hill photographs sun spots and star trails and milks cows at a nearby farm.
December 2011
Chief wants to continue search ‘outside the microscope’
WATERVILLE — By nightfall Sunday, untracked snow had accumulated around 29 Violette St., the home where 20-month-old Ayla Reynolds was last seen. Candles flickered among stuffed animals and toys at a shrine on the front yard.
Bringing her ideas to RSU 12
WHITEFIELD — From her start in a two-room schoolhouse, Patricia Watts now oversees the education of more than 1,400 students in the Sheepscot Valley.
Company uses technology to aid elderly at home
ROCKLAND — Framed needlepoints cover the walls of Patty Gardner’s living room, where she and Marian White sit and work on their embroidery every Monday.
Keeping the spirit of the day
AUGUSTA — Among the volunteers at Prince of Peace Lutheran Church’s Christmas dinner, there were families with young children, teenagers and retired people.
DISTRICT COURT
AUGUSTA — The following is a list of cases closed Dec. 15-21, 2011, in Augusta District Court:
A homecoming this rural Maine town may not soon forget
JACKMAN — It started with a Facebook message. When Karla Talpey, the longtime local Boy Scout leader, heard just over a week ago that U.S.
Gun-in-vehicle bill again on table
AUGUSTA — Guns — and whether they can be stored in your vehicle at work — will once again be debated by lawmakers in the upcoming session.
Fight continues over what’s left of shut supplier
Eight months after the Gardiner-based Associated Grocers of Maine cooperative closed, vendors and a bank are squabbling over some $3.3 million while former employees say they have not received a penny of severance, vacation or any other benefit from their former employer.
Lack of snowfall puts damper on snowmobile season
MONTPELIER, Vt. — With the ground bare and temperatures in the 40s in the days before Christmas, the head of the New Hampshire Snowmobile Association wasn’t checking the forecast anymore.