Although Cony lost the Class A girls basketball state championship game to McAuley on Saturday, this season was an important step for the current players. Cony went to eight state finals from 1995 to 2007, but had a losing record as recently as two years ago. Now, this team is part of Cony’s great tradition.
March 2012
Town wrestles with demolition site problems
WILTON — Selectmen have taken steps to keep the town from foreclosing on a contaminated demolition site, highlighting a struggle many municipalities face to avoid taking ownership of undesirable property.
Signature-gatherers hustle to collect names for 1st District candidates
PORTLAND — Three signature-gatherers stood outside the First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church on Congress Street and stopped fellow parishioners headed into the Sunday morning service.
DISTRICT COURT
AUGUSTA — The following is a list of cases closed between Feb. 23, 2012, and Feb. 29, 2012, in Augusta District Court:
SNAPSHOT: Robin fruit
An American Robin collects a berry Sunday morning beneath a fruit tree in Augusta. Flocks of the thrushes that reside across North America are often detected in the late winter stripping fruit from limbs.
Local races, 33 articles await vote in Palermo
PALERMO — Local voters will elect at least two new town officials Friday and will have a chance on Saturday to begin implementing recommendations to reduce Town Office costs.
Undiscovered medical bills can destroy credit
CHICAGO — Mike and Laura Park thought their credit record was spotless. The Texas couple wanted to take advantage of low interest rates, so they put their house on the market and talked to a lender about a mortgage on a bigger home in the Dallas-Fort Worth suburbs.
UMaine announces dean’s list students
ORONO — The University of Maine has announced its dean’s list honors for the Fall 2011 semester. Local students include: Johanna Verney of Alna; Blake Bourque, Shelby Caret and Cameron Ray, all of Belgrade; Jenna Bowley, Nathen Cloutier, Allicyn Fitzgerald, Ryan Herrick, Morgan Kinney and Joshua McGrath, all of Bowdoin; Brian Bousquet-Smith, Dylan Bousquet-Smith, Allison Doe, Kelsey Frank and Connor Schneider, all of Bowdoinham; Allison Briggs, Cindi Gousse and Roxanne Moody, all of Chelsea; Shane Smith of Coopers Mills; Rachel Scribellito of Dresden; Kyle Bell-Colfer, Matthew Richwalder, Devin Shepherd and Jessica Woods, all of Farmingdale; Julie Churchill and Keith Jewett, both of Fayette; Alysha Mosher and Rebecca Paradee, both of Gardiner; Jonathan McCullum, Nicole Poirier, Michael Shepherd and Taylor Smith, all of Hallowell; Ethan Foster, Ryan Hall, Gardner Hinckley, Krysten Moody and Matthew White, all of Jefferson; Lynnae Chaput, Samuel Hatch, Lindsay Heald, Clyde Tibbetts and Heather White; all of Litchfield; Courtney Anderson, Joanna Cumming, Lauren Gerrity, Christine MacDonald, Amanda Mayette, Chelsea McLaughlin, Hayley Pierce, Michael Rankin, Kalyna Smith, Tylor Tourville, Mary Berry, Blake Hamel and Abigail Szotkowski, all of Manchester; Robert Brown, Travis Elliot and Rose McGlauflin, all of Mount Vernon; Bryon Hasch of North Monmouth; Heidi Rosado of North Vassalboro; Lucas Bartlett, Joseph Dumont, Megan Fair, Colby Fischang, Audrey Knowlton, Kenzie McGowan, Katherine Mills, Benton Purnell and Courtney Schaff, all of Oakland; Rebecca Allen and Jason Coan, both of Pittston; Colby Fortier-Brown, Patrick Fortier-Brown and Kristyn Seymour, all of Randolph; Sarah Clark, Eric Collins, Ryan Fellows, Madeline Nazar, Henry Norwood and Jackson Witherill, all of Readfield; Rachel Carter, Brooke Lancaster, Loren Lilly, Benjamin McPheters, Nicholas Noble and Sarah Williams, Richmond; Samuel Mathes of Rome; Philip Bean, Arielle Boulette, David Currier, Matthew Ouellette and Andrew Wilson, all of Sidney; Kristen Alberts, Sierra Currie, Jason Goggin, Pamela Hashinsky, Joshua Jandreau, Zachary Newman, Frank Parrinello, Jennifer Prescott and Morgan Prescott, all of South China; Amy Hughes, Caroline Reed and Aaron Sienkiewicz, all of Vassalboro; Julie Cote, Matthew Furman, Hannah Hoster, Victoria Mikell, Jody Page, Brandon Poli, Hope Stevenson, Hannah Vail, Leslie Wallace, Nicholas Waterman and Carla White, all of Waldoboro; Daniel Perkins of Wayne; Lana Scott and Eric Sprowl, both of West Gardiner; Taryn Gary, Abraham Hamilton, Matthew Howard and Jessica Stevens, all of Whitefield; Bethany Beaudry and Jarrod Lenfest, both of Windsor; Stuart Blanchard, Elizabeth Brophy, Connor Chu, Thomas Conley, Brandon Dupuis, Rachel Labbe, Emily Mayer, Zachary Nichols, Sarah Pacheco, Lauren Remley, Hunter Sherman, Travis Sherman, Glen Tricarico and Richard Van Twistern; all of Winthrop; Ashley Bailey, Dustin Dorr and Ashley Ferrucci, all of Wiscasset.
Road proposal focus of Chelsea meeting
CHELSEA — Selectmen at a special town meeting Wednesday will ask for permission to transfer more than $22,000 between accounts to cover the cost of road maintenance.