A drake Eastern Bluebird scours an apple tree Wednesday morning at the Ford and Susan Stevenson Farm in Wayne. The family stopped parking cars near a bird box the mating pair of thrushes selected this spring for a nest, according to Susan Stevenson. “He kept attacking his reflection in the mirrors,” she said.
April 2012
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Vandals damage buses, police say
READFIELD — A pair of local men kicked off Kents Hill School grounds for skateboarding responded by causing several thousand dollars in damage to three of the school’s buses, police said.
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Man pleads guilty to forging ballots
AUGUSTA — An Oakland man will spend 10 days in the alternative sentencing program for forging his son and daughter’s names on absentee ballot materials.
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HIGH SCHOOL SOFTBALL NOTEBOOK: Erskine pitcher steps in to fill void
Erskine junior Alyssa Gartley stepped into the void left by the departure of Sonja Morse and pitched a five-hit shutout against Edward Little in the team’s 7-0 season-opening win Wednesday in Auburn.
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HIGH SCHOOL ROUNDUP: Banister’s 4-hit day lifts Tigers to opening win
GARDINER — Gardiner scored five runs in the fifth inning en route to an 11-7 win against Maranacook in the Kennebec Valley Athletic Conference Class B softball opener for both teams Wednesday.
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Another fire hits Gorham
GORHAM — An unoccupied house was targeted in the latest in a string of suspicious fires in town, but the house was spared by the direction of the wind, according to the state Fire Marshal’s Office.
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Dick Clark, ‘world’s oldest teenager,’ dead at 82
LOS ANGELES — Dick Clark, the ever-youthful television host and tireless entrepreneur who helped bring rock ‘n’ roll into the mainstream on “American Bandstand,” and later produced and hosted a vast range of programming from game shows to the year-end countdown from Times Square on “New Year’s Rockin’ Eve,” has died. He was 82.
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Officials try to sell Belgrade board on gas line tax break
BELGRADE — A proposed natural gas pipeline could spur more than $9 million in new investment in town and between $26,000 and $131,000 in annual revenue in the years to come, according to an analysis presented to town officials.
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Break-in nets another arrest
AUGUSTA — A third man suspected of breaking into a Chase Avenue apartment earlier this month and threatening two women with knives and a gun was arrested Wednesday after a brief foot chase, police said.