Missing man located after being stranded EDMUNDS TOWNSHIP — Game wardens have located a man who spent two nights in his car and another two nights in an abandoned cabin after his car got stuck on a washed out road. Wardens managed to find Greg Burns of Machias within several hours of being told Friday […]
July 2012
SNAPSHOT: Summer glare
As the sun sets over the back of the hill behind them, a walker crosses Winthrop Street recently in Augusta.
LePage raps health-care law; says IRS ‘gestapo’
Gov. Paul LePage used his weekly radio address Saturday to blast President Barack Obama’s health-care law and described the Internal Revenue Service as the “new Gestapo.”
LePage order halts project
SKOWHEGAN — A $400,000 downtown revitalization grant is on hold following a freeze on the issuance of $40 million in voter-approved bonds by Gov. Paul LePage.
Kaplan, public colleges not the same
WINTHROP — After years of staying home with her children or cobbling together a living however she could — making ice-fishing traps, cleaning houses — Laura Cameron felt she needed new direction in life.
School budget vote Tuesday will be on a trimmed budget
WINTHROP — When voters return to the polls Tuesday, they’ll see a proposed school budget that is $116,000 less than the one rejected June 12.
Graf farm becomes part of land trust
FAYETTE — The farming way of life has been good to Berndt and Elaine Graf.
Winter in Summer as Ice Vault offers early preview
HALLOWELL — Laura Blackstone slowly glided around the rink, her eyes and mind trying to soak in the experience of being one of the first skaters to step on the Bank of Maine Ice Vault ice.
Alewife runs in future depend on Augusta
MILLTOWN, New Brunswick — It’s late in the alewives’ spring run, and overnight just five fish have climbed the fish ladder at the Milltown Dam, which spans the St. Croix River on the Maine-New Brunswick border.
Older drivers face risks
An 88-year-old man drives the wrong way on Interstate 295 for two miles.