Yale chose the Occupy Wall Street slogan as the year’s top quote, but Herman Cain, Rick Perry and others also made the top-10 list of 2011.
December 2011
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Search for missing toddler continues
The FBI has been called in to assist state and local police and the Maine Warden Service in the search for 20-month-old Ayla Reynolds.
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Last US troops leave Iraq; war ends
The last U.S. soldiers rolled out of Iraq at daybreak Sunday, whooping, fist bumping and hugging each other in a burst of joy and relief.
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Local company adds more seafood websites
A Maine Internet company, which launched www.LobsterSuppliers.com, is casting a wider net as it launches new websites listing companies that sell other kinds of seafood.
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‘Super Saturday’ draws Maine shoppers
PORTLAND — With a couple of Christmas parties on her calendar for the weekend, Kim Mickiewicz was cruising the aisles Saturday morning at the Renys department store for some stocking stuffers, including decorative pencils and a dry-erase board with markers. More-exciting gifts waited in her cart, but she didn’t want to talk openly about them.
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New lift opens at Sugarloaf
CARRABASSETT VALLEY — Wearing their ski togs and broad smiles, three teenagers from Freeport spent six hours in the cold Saturday so they could be a part of Sugarloaf history — to be among the first to ride the ski resort’s new $3 million Skyline chairlift.
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Hannaford urges customers to return ground beef for refund
PORTLAND — Hannaford Supermarkets urged customers Saturday to return all ground beef for a refund, if they’re worried about its being part of the recall of contaminated meat.
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Waterville toddler missing
WATERVILLE — Police are looking for a toddler who vanished from her bed sometime late Friday or early Saturday, and say it’s possible she was abducted.
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Donations aid Belgrade library effort
BELGRADE — Christmas may have come early for the Friends of the Belgrade Public Library.
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Politics, lawsuit divide Monmouth
MONMOUTH — A local businessman is suing a selectman for allegedly trying to co-opt his company’s name as payback for his political opposition.