WATERVILLE — Assistant manager Laurie Brown described the angel who wrote a check to Kmart for more than $6,000 Tuesday as an ordinary man on the street.
December 2011
Area stores report ‘layaway angels’
AUGUSTA — In more than 30 years in the retail industry, Sharon Carter has never seen a phenomenon as uplifting as the one that’s making its way through many of the nation’s largest retail chains.
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL: Maine falls in Florida
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Rachelle Coward scored a game-high 30 points and the Charleston Southern women’s basketball team sank the University of Maine 78-63 in the finale of the Gator Holiday Classic.
‘Young Adult’ … comes of age
Mavis Gary is a fragile tree waiting for a windstorm to bring her down. Mavis Gary, a slim, 37-year-old aging prom queen, is a ghost writer for teen-lit books. Thousands read her. No one sees her. She’s still much the same person she was in high school, the prom queen but with no king, the queen bee of the mean girls sans entourage. She lives alone high above the madding crowd. But she’s gorgeous, talented, desirable. What’s wrong with this picture?
Morning Sentinel police log: Dec. 22, 2011
IN ALBION, Tuesday at 12:26 a.m., a complaint of shots fired was made on East Benton Road.
NFL: Rodgers voted AP Male Athlete of Year
GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — When Aaron Rodgers needs to rekindle the feelings that drove his rise from a junior college quarterback to Super Bowl MVP, he doesn’t have to look too far.
HIGH SCHOOL HOCKEY: Cony earns big win on road at Waterville
WATERVILLE — The Cony hockey team handled an aggressive Waterville forecheck with relative ease Wednesday night, showing no signs of panic in its own end. The Rams played with confidence and poise in the offensive zone, burying many of the chances it generated.
HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS BASKETBALL NOTEBOOK: Warriors push it in practice
Two-time defending Eastern B champion Nokomis is in the midst of a stretch where the Warriors are simply far too strong for their competition. Of its six games before the end of December, Nokomis plays only two teams with a .500 record. Against those two teams, the Warriors beat Winslow by 37 and Waterville by 30.
Vigil draws nearly 100
WATERVILLE — Candles burned as symbols of hope Wednesday night at a vigil for missing toddler Ayla Reynolds.