WEST GARDINER — Children playing with sparklers started a brush fire Wednesday that blanketed a section of the Maine Turnpike with smoke and burned nearly two acres.
April 2012
Posted inNews
Budget negotiations will test streak
AUGUSTA — Six times in the last year and a half, Republicans and Democrats on the Legislature’s Appropriations Committee have reached unanimous agreements on state budgets.
Starting next week, new budget negotiations will test that streak.
advertisement
Posted inSports
COLLEGE ROUNDUP: Thomas rallies to beat UMF in overtime
FARMINGTON — Mark Davis scored with 2 minutes, 52 seconds left in overtime to lead Thomas College over the University of Maine at Farmington 10-9 in a North Altlantic Conference men’s lacrosse action Wednesday at Prescott Field.
Posted inSports
HIGH SCHOOL SOFTBALL NOTEBOOK: Carrabec plans to give back at opener
The Carrabec softball team won’t have its first home game until April 27, but the Cobras already have something special planned.
Posted inNews
LePage business bills see union, Dem criticism
AUGUSTA — Gov. Paul LePage signed three bills Wednesday he said will help to improve Maine’s business environment and open the door to jobs by making changes to workers compensation and unemployment benefits and clarifying what kind of workers should be deemed “independent contractors.”
Posted inSports
HIGH SCHOOL SOFTBALL ROUNDUP: Nokomis takes off late for victory
NEWPORT — Nokomis scord three runs in the fifth inning and four in the sixth to beat Maine Central Insitute 7-3 in the Kennebec Valley Athletic Conference Class B season opening softball game for both teams Wednesday.
Posted inSports
HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL ROUNDUP: Nutter helps Messalonskee win opener
OAKLAND — Reid Nutter pitched five innings, allowing one run, while striking out four and walking four as the Messalonskee baseball team beat Brewer 9-1 in the Kennebec Valley Athletic Conference Class A opener for both teams Wednesday.
Posted inNews
Officials try to sell Belgrade board on gas pipeline 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.
Posted inNews
Former Sentinel intern wins Pulitzer Prize
WATERVILLE — A former intern at the Morning Sentinel and Kennebec Journal has won a Pulitzer Prize, journalism’s highest honor.
Posted inNews
Tree-killing beetle found closer to New England
The invasive beetle that has destroyed tens of millions of ash trees over the past decade has been found east of the Hudson River for the first time, marking its closest known threat to New England, researchers in New York said Wednesday.