After a mayday call, a Coast Guard helicopter searches an area about 12 miles off Cape May, but finds no signs of a ship in distress.
June 2012
‘Green accounting’ increases in popularity
Environmental economists argue that redefining nature in stark monetary terms would offer better information for making economic and development decisions.
MLB: Ortiz, Kalish lead Red Sox past Cubs
CHICAGO (AP) — David Ortiz homered and Ryan Kalish had a tiebreaking RBI single to lead the Boston RedSox to a 7-4 victory over the Chicago Cubs on Sunday night.
Historic house now a big energy-saver
FREEPORT — A major energy-saving renovation of the historic Mallett House at 57 Depot St. is complete, and it’s drawing attention from green-building experts across the country.
Chief justice remembers when girls weren’t encouraged
As the first female chief justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, Leigh Saufley wears distinguished black robes in the courtroom — a far cry from the hideous unitard she recalls wearing for physical education as a girl in the South Portland school system.
For Title IX, compliance still an issue
Four decades after legislation took effect mandating equal opportunity for girls and women in education and any program receiving federal funding, compliance remains a challenge.
SNAPSHOT: Going up with the Guard in Palermo
Members of the Maine Army National Guard 136th Engineer Company pound together a wall Sunday at the Palermo Consolidated School. The soldiers erected a storage building at the school as a community project with materials the school provided.
Dill is right, many Americans falling behind
“Our problem is that the top 1 percent of Americans take in a quarter of this nation’s riches, and continue to see their fat incomes grow, while 99 percent of us watch our income and quality of life fall off a cliff.” — State Sen. Cynthia Dill, D-Cape Elizabeth, speaking at the Maine Democratic Convention. […]
Talk to feature Augusta’s place in early aviation
AUGUSTA — Just eight years after the Wright brothers’ historic first flight, St. Croix Johnstone took off from a baseball field in Augusta in his rudimentary monoplane.