After opening the season with a pair of losses, Messalonskee boys lacrosse coach Tom Sheridan was beginning to wonder where his team would finish this season.
April 2012
UMF student’s family sues
PORTLAND — The estate of a Westbrook man who died after he was punched in the face and hit his head on the bricks of Monument Square is suing his attacker and the bar the attacker patronized before their brief encounter.
Spring break crew improves properties
UNITY — Field season started early at Sebasticook Regional Land Trust this year, as 18 Unity College students volunteered services at two of the trust’s properties in Unity.
Athens kindergarten registration is May 31
ATHENS — Athens Elementary School kindergarten registration for the 2012-13 school year is set for 8:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Thursday, May 31.
MAINE CENTRAL INSTITUTE HONOR ROLL
PITTSFIELD — Maine Central Institute recently announced its third quarter honor roll for the 2011-2012 school year.
Farmington selectmen take another look at wind energy ordinance
FARMINGTON — Selectmen will decide tonight whether they should ask voters to amend a recently adopted ordinance that regulates wind energy projects in town.
Police continue Rite Aid robbery probe
WINSLOW — Police are following leads in a Sunday robbery at Rite Aid pharmacy on China Road in which a man got away with oxycodone and methadone.
Alan Kelley best candidate for district attorney
Residents of Kennebec and Somerset counties in the past several years have been served by two great men, David Crook and Evert Fowle. Behind these two great DAs was their deputy district attorney, Alan Kelley. He was their pillar of strength and his sense of enthusiasm, dedication, devotion to duty, loyalty and integrity has never […]
Gardeners, rangers, others fired up after soaking
A rare, late-April nor’easter that brought between 2 and 3 inches of rain to central Maine — and put most of the area under a flood watch — was a welcome development for many, considering the unseasonably hot and dry conditions of the previous weeks.
Poet laureate is UMF speaker
FARMINGTON — Maine’s poet laureate, Emmy Award-winning writer Wesley McNair, will deliver the University of Maine at Farmington commencement address.