UNITY — Unity College will host its sixth annual sportsmen’s conference and wild game dinner Friday, April 13, at the Unity College Centre for the Performing Arts, 4 Depot St. Appetizers will served at 4:30 p.m, dinner will begin at 6:30 p.m.
April 2012
VIEW FROM ELSEWHERE: Science and doubting, educated conservatives
With so many scientific issues becoming battlefields in the culture wars — from climate change to stem-cell research to evolution — we hardly needed a new study to tell us that scientists have become a favorite target of the right. Yet a paper written by University of North Carolina doctoral fellow Gordon Gauchat and published last week in the American Sociological Review also contains a highly counterintuitive finding.
Tiny eels worth big bucks
PORTLAND — Tiny translucent elvers — alien-looking baby eels the size of toothpicks, with big black eyes and spines — are mysterious creatures, floating thousands of miles from their birthplace in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean before ending up each spring in Maine’s rivers and streams.
Wildfire season starts early
Unseasonably warm weather last month gave Maine an early spring, and an early fire season.
Cars collide in Fairfield
FAIRFIELD — A 78-year-old Fairfield woman was taken by ambulance to a hospital after a two-car crash Tuesday afternoon on Greene Road.
Morning Sentinel police log: April 4, 2012
IN ALBION, Sunday at 6:43 p.m., threatening was reported on Winslow Road.
JMG students offer help to five charities
WINSLOW — Betty Palmer has faith in the world that her grandchildren will inherit.
Ayla’s family asks for help
The maternal family of missing toddler Ayla Reynolds has issued a call for action among able-bodied residents of Maine and beyond.
SAD 53 has ‘hit the cliff’
PITTSFIELD — The School Administrative District 53 Board got its first official look at the proposed 2012-13 budget Monday, and as Superintendent Michael A. Gallagher put it, “We’ve hit the cliff this year.”
HIGH SCHOOL NOTEBOOK: JV teams a luxury in Class B
For Class B softball programs, a junior varsity team used to be the norm. Now, it’s almost a luxury.