Lobstermen up and down the Maine coast are keeping their lips sealed tighter than a lobster claw.
July 2012
Somerset County Jail escapee Dylan Perkins turns self in at Skowhegan hospital
A fugitive inmate who scaled a fence to escape from the Somerset County Jail Monday was caught Saturday afternoon when he turned himself in at a Skowhegan hospital.
Boy, 14, shot in Gorham attempted arson
GORHAM — A 14-year-old boy was shot at a Gorham home in connection with an attempted arson around 11:45 p.m. Friday.
Review: Karen Black stunning in film ‘Day of the Locust’
“Hollywood is a place where they’ll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss, and fifty cents for your soul.”
— Marilyn Monroe
CMP: 30,000 homes lost power last year from non-payment, up 60 percent from usual levels
Central Maine Power Co. shut off electricity to 29,554 homes last year for non-payment of bills, an apparent record number.
NASCAR: Loudon special for Truex family
LOUDON, N.H. — Ryan Truex remembers when the workers on his older brother’s car would stuff him in a box used to hold dirty rags and tape up the hole on top.
Morning Sentinel police report: July 15, 2012
IN ALBION, Friday at 10:44 a.m., a burglary was reportedly in progress on Unity Road.
AMERICAN LEGION BASEBALL: Zone 2 tournament participants set
It was a scorching summer day, and there was baseball seemingly everywhere in central Maine. Thomas College, Colby College. Winslow High School. Lawrence High. Memorial Field in Skowhegan. Hippach Field in Farmington.
TRAVIS LAZARCZYK: Title 1st step for Sweet
Five years ago, Seth Sweet’s first appearance in the Maine Amateur Golf Championship ended in tears. He was 12, the youngest player to ever qualify for the tournament. He shot an 80 the first day, an 84 the second, and two days of playing golf against men caught up to Sweet as he turned in his card. A kid reached his exhaustion point, physically and mentally.
Golf tournament set for Aug. 6
VASSALBORO — The 11th annual Susan McConnell Memorial Swing for Hope and Hospice Golf Tournament to benefit Hope’s Place, a grieving children and teen’s program of Hospice Volunteers of Waterville Area, will be Monday, Aug. 6, at Natanis Golf Course.