Beginning next month, 34 Maine towns will enforce a new building code.
June 2012
HIGH SCHOOL SOFTBALL: Morse, Russell lead Rams to final
AUGUSTA — A few minutes after Oxford Hills seized the momentum in Saturday’s Eastern Maine Class A semifinal softball game, Cony’s Molly Russell snatched it away.
Huge Penobscot River restoration project starts Monday
After 13 years of legal, political and engineering work, the largest river restoration project in eastern North America begins Monday morning when a 40-ton excavator aims its percussion hammer at the defunct concrete fishway of the Great Works Dam on the Penobscot River.
NBA PLAYOFFS: Heat rally, beat Celtics in Game 7
MIAMI (AP) — LeBron James finally got a Game 7 victory, on his third try.
HIGH SCHOOL TRACK AND FIELD: McClintock, Brown win N.E. titles
SACO — Connecticut schools dominated the New England track and field championship Saturday, winning 18 of 34 events at Thornton Academy. But where Maine athletes won, they rocked it.
Wilton asbestos situation remains a mess
WILTON — The Maine Department of Environmental Protection is moving forward with fines and other steps it hopes will pressure two private companies to finish removing asbestos from a demolition site on Depot Street.
HIGH SCHOOL SOFTBALL: Madison struggles in loss to Dirigo
MADISON — It happens every year, in every sport. A team will have an off game and the players and coaches will say that it’s better to get it out of the way early.
Down the stretch they come
PORTLAND — Two Republican U.S. Senate candidates continued to argue about past and future tax votes and all six expressed some degree of unhappiness with the votes taken by their GOP predecessor at the final debate before Tuesday’s primary.
Morning Sentinel corrections: June 10, 2012
Waterville Senior High School girls tennis player Brittany Saulter was misidentified in a story on page C1 of Saturday’s edition. It was a reporter error.
HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL: Blue Devils shut down Eagles
LEWISTON — The Erskine baseball team opened postseason play with an emotional one-run victory in an Eastern A quarterfinal game Thursday.