MANCHESTER — Crews returned to Puddledock Road on Tuesday to continue cleaning up hundreds of gallons of used motor oil that spilled last week from a storage tanker.
March 2012
Barking dog rules up for West Gardiner review
WEST GARDINER — Residents will be asked to put some teeth into the barking dog ordinance by specifying how long a dog can bark continuously or intermittently before becoming a nuisance.
Witness in Bellavance trial sentenced to jail time
AUGUSTA — A Gardiner man who was a key witness in the recent trial of a man convicted of burning down a topless coffee shop was sentenced Tuesday on a charge of skipping out on a monitoring program.
Winthrop Adult Education cellular memory class set for March 20
WINTHROP — Winthrop Adult Education will offer a class, Cellular Memory and Your Health, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. March 20 in the Winthrop High School library.
Augusta authors publish books
AUGUSTA — Christopher Maloney of Augusta has written a children’s book, “Two Pennies: A Living History Mystery,” and will donate a portion of book sales to the Lithgow Public Library capital campaign to expand and renovate the library.
No ice? No problem: Coast Guard uses opportunity to train
GARDINER — Unseasonably warm weather turned an annual ice-breaking operation on the Kennebec River into a training mission.
East-west highway study gains Senate OK
AUGUSTA — Legislation seeking $300,000 in state money to do a feasibility study of a privately funded east-west highway across Maine, seen as a vital transportation link for industries engaged in agriculture, forest products and energy, won initial approval Tuesday in the state Senate.
Augusta burglar who tried to extort victims sentenced to 18 months
A thief who tried to extort $2,000 from an Augusta couple whose home he burglarized was sentenced Tuesday to 18 months in prison.