AUGUSTA — City councilors unanimously approved a $51.4 million city and school budget Thursday night, rejecting pleas to restore between $29,000 and $40,000 in funds to keep Bicentennial Nature Park open.
June 2012
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Driven to exact a higher toll
The turnpike authority wants to increase motorists’ cost of using the road in order to pay down debt from its widening.
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Fairfield police log June 1
The Fairfield Police Department reported the following activity June 1:
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Maine Democrats gathering in Augusta for convention
Democrats, unified behind President Obama, are not expected to fight over control of the convention the way Ron Paul and Mitt Romney supporters did during the GOP convention last month.
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US economy added 69K jobs in May, fewest in a year
The dismal jobs data will fan fears that the economy is sputtering. It could also damage President Barack Obama’s re-election prospects.
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Green Lantern relaunched as brave, mighty and gay
Alan Scott is a gay member of the Justice Society that will be introduced in ‘Earth 2,’ which will be released next week.
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Chrysler sales rise 30 percent on Jeep, Ram demand
The company said it sold more than 150,000 cars and trucks in May, compared with 115,000 in the same month a year ago
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Police remove stubborn turtle from NH parking lot
Snapping turtle was coaxed into a box and placed in woods near Pease International Tradeport.
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Rockefeller impostor challenges Mass. conviction
Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter was sentenced to four to five years in prison for kidnapping his daughter.