Serena and Venus post a straight-set victory over Andrea Hlavackova and Lucie Hradecka of the Czech Republic.
August 2012
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Mills get work after Minnesota mill closes
The owner moves work from his closed Minnesota mill to Jay and Bucksport, but no jobs will be added.
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Lobster Festival comes to a close Sunday
The festival, in its 65th year, draws about 100,000 visitors each year to Rockland.
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Woman dies in Auburn apartment fire
The woman, 51, was taken to Central Maine Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead.
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SNAPSHOT: Yarn bomb
Melissa Yormac sews another flat knitted piece around the fence as part of a yarn bombing event at mile five of the Kennebec River Rail Trail on Saturday morning in Farmingdale. They were wrapping the fence and a light pole in knitted fabric. It will be reused next year or washed and assembled into blankets […]
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BILL NEMITZ: Maine needs an Anti Tiptoe Law
It could be inserted right into the gaping cracks in the state’s Child Protection Act — a fitting rebuke to the fancy dancing that surrounded the long and lurid career of the late Rev. Bob Carlson.
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New general store the big attraction in small-town Starks
STARKS — There is no post office in Starks, population 640.
There is no school, no stop light and until last week, no store.
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Campaign funding rules slide back to Watergate era, says Colby professor
WATERVILLE — Most summers, you wouldn’t find Colby College Professor Anthony Corrado in his office, staring at the computer.
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Augusta voters to try Cony High School as polling place in fall
AUGUSTA — The city’s Ward 4 voters will have yet another new polling place come November: Cony High School.
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ON MAINE POLITICS: School choice still in forefront
Gov. Paul LePage continued his effort to promote school choice last week by employing an old governor’s trick — designating a special day.