City Engineer Greg Brown said Tuesday that the contractor working on bridge repairs had completed wind cable work. A “Bridge Closed” sign and blockade at the bridge’s entrances, visible on Tuesday, is supposed to be removed by today.
August 2012
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Asbestos cleanup at Wilton mill site begins in earnest
“I’ve done over 10,000 projects. This is the worst that’s ever been seen,” Bob Rickett, owner of Abatement Professionals, said Tuesday. “This is the absolute worst.”
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Skowhegan woman charged with assaulting police officer
Brittany L. Bickford, 35, was arrested on charges of assaulting a police officer, refusing to submit to arrest and failure to give information to police. She was released later on $360 cash bail from the Somerset County Jail in East Madison.
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Father wants answers in Maine man’s stabbing death
Dennis Dodge Sr. has 13 days to come up with $4,000 to pay for his son’s funeral. Even as he frets about how to pay the bill, he wonders why he had to bury his son in the first place.
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OUR OPINION: For-profit colleges not good use of taxpayer funds
It’s time to rethink the system that funnels federal funds into businesses set up as for-profit colleges and universities.
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Winslow teen charged for second time since weekend for stealing truck
Police arrested a Winslow teenager Monday night after he allegedly stole a pickup truck from Cumberland Farms in Skowhegan and led officers on a high-speed chase through Winslow and Benton and into Unity Township.
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New leased building in Central Maine Commerce Center expected to save State of Maine $1 million per year
AUGUSTA — The state government will save more than $1 million per year in rent and consolidate offices when two agencies move into a newly constructed office building at the edge of Maine’s capital.
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Police say Farmingdale woman was accomplice in Waterville pharmacy robbery
WATERVILLE — Police on Tuesday arrested a woman believed to have been an accomplice June 12 in a Walmart pharmacy robbery here.
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China Dunkin’ Donuts would offer more comfortable atmosphere, says business owner
CHINA — A proposed new Dunkin’ Donuts at the Fieldstone Quick Stop will be part of a revamped gas station store that will include seating, better refrigeration units and improved air conditioning, owner Thadius Barber said Tuesday.
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VIEW FROM ELSEWHERE: Stifling democracy
Every day in Washington, government officials — at the Pentagon, the State Department, the White House, Congress or the CIA, to name a few — talk to journalists about information that is considered sensitive.