LITCHFIELD — Water from heavy rain rushed through culverts at Huntington Hill and Stevenstown roads, and the town’s firefighters helped fill sandbags to use if necessary to forestall flooding around Purgatory Dam.
June 2012
Maine actors take different paths to Hollywood
Greg Finley and Tim Simons took two different roads out of Maine, but ended up in the same place — on TV.
Generator already paying dividends for local food bank
LITCHFIELD — The power went out on a Thursday several weeks ago just as people were lining up to get food from the Litchfield Community Food Bank, which is housed at the Litchfield Community Christian Church on Hallowell Road.
Keaveney fund still strong after 30 years
PITTSTON — The Pittston Consolidated School has a new greenhouse, dedicated to the memory of Allison Keaveney, a fourth-grader at the school who died 30 years ago.
TUESDAY’S EVENTS
Lions Club: Gardiner/Augusta Lions Club bingo, at the clubhouse, 25 Lions Ave.; doors open at 4 p.m. and bingo starts 6:30 p.m.; refreshments; 485-7100
Health center gets its money
READFIELD — Maranacook Student Health Center will have the money it needs next year, but other health programs in and out of schools remain at risk.
Proposed budget has no tax increase
GARDINER — The City Council has settled on an $8.8 million municipal budget without an increase in the tax rate.
Poliquin attacks offer alternate views of race
Is state Treasurer Bruce Poliquin the front-runner in the six-way race for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate? Poliquin isn’t the only one to think so, especially after rival Republican candidates criticized him in the media last week. The GOP race had been decidedly friendly until Poliquin drew fire from opponents for running on the […]
Election 2012: Pollard a moderate, idealist
The Yale-educated business owner says those qualities and others would make him an effective U.S. senator.
Morning Sentinel police log: June 4, 2012
IN EMBDEN, Friday at 10:21 p.m., a domestic disturbance was investigated on Embden Pond Road.