Lawyers drained Linda Brice’s bank account and seized a quarter of her take-home pay, or more than $900 a month. Brice, a first-grade teacher and Coast Guard veteran, begged for mercy, saying she couldn’t afford food, gas or utilities.
July 2012
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Denial of hospital visit claim is examined
EDITOR’S NOTE: Truth Test is a regular feature of MaineToday Media’s campaign coverage, in which we cast a critical eye on the truthfulness of advertising and public comments by political candidates.
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Nights of Pepsi love
July 1949: With the first paycheck from my summer job making plastic feet for shoe displays at the Johnson Shoe Co., I sauntered into the Velvet Freeze, near where the street car turned and bought Pepsi-Colas, and double orders of fries all around for the gang.
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AMERICAN LEGION BASEBALL ROUNDUP: Dexter sparks Post 51
WATERVILLE — Jake Dexter had nine hits and Post 51 pitchers combined to hold Subway to three runs on seven hits on its way to a doubleheader sweep in American Legion Zone 2 baseball action Saturday at Thomas College.
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STILL LIFE: Industrial-strength haying
Brian Caverly of Caverly Farms, right, loads a truck driven by Dorian French with hay using a combine at Good Will-Hinckley on U.S. Route 201 in Hinckley on Saturday.
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LePage attacks health care law, IRS
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.”
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Red tape, salmon delay erosion work in Farmington
FARMINGTON — An eroding bank beneath Whittier Road constitutes an “imminent threat,” but local officials say reams of paperwork and concerns about affecting salmon habitat may prevent them from addressing it in time.
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Controlling behavior unacceptable
Dear Annie: I have been married for 24 years to my high school sweetheart, and we have two sons. For most of this time, I have put up with my wife not allowing any mention of my family or involvement whatsoever in any activities. I don’t know why this is so, and she won’t tell me. Although I can see my family on my own, I am not allowed to invite them to our home for a holiday, and my parents are permitted to see our kids only on rare occasion. Of course, when it’s about her family, she expects me to jump.
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Powell,Williams
JACKMAN — David and Barbara Boss Powell of East Granby, CT, are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Kirstin Kweilin Powell, to Ryan Thomas Williams, son of Douglass Williams of Waterford, CT, and Laney and Terry Crawford of Jackman.
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LePage order halts Skowhegan 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.