BOOTHBAY — Nicole Pelletier and Shanay Gilbert each had two goals and an assist as the Hall-Dale field hockey team beat Boothbay 4-2 to earn their first Mountain Valley Conference win of the season Thursday.
September 2012
HIGH SCHOOL BOYS SOCCER: Hall-Dale keeps rolling, tops Monmouth
FARMINGDALE — For nearly 27 minutes in the second half Thursday, the Monmouth Academy boys soccer team kept unbeaten Hall-Dale off the scoreboard.
Senate candidates back Obama on Libya
PORTLAND — Maine’s three leading U.S. Senate candidates said Thursday they supported President Barack Obama’s measured statements and security response to the attack on American officials in Libya this week.
Political lawn sign rules illegal, Maine ACLU says
The American Civil Liberties Union of Maine is warning municipalities that local ordinances restricting political lawn signs on private property are unconstitutional.
New ad takes Dill, King to task about wind plan support
A new television ad by a national Republican group blasts independent U.S. Senate candidate Angus King and Democrat Cynthia Dill for their support of industrial wind.
BILL NEMITZ: Muddling through the message battle in race’s advertising war
David Sorensen reminds me of the kid who murders both of his parents and then asks the judge for mercy because he’s an orphan.
Winners, losers seen from new Maine health insurance law
Lisa Burton, who owns Reel Pizza Cinerama in Bar Harbor with her husband, saw her health insurance rate jump 67 percent this year. That’s on top of a 35 percent increase last year. In two years, premiums to cover her three full-time employees have doubled.
Fall music series begins Sept. 15 at Lithgow Public Library
AUGUSTA — A new fall music series at Lithgow Public Library — “Live & Local at the Library” — will begin this Saturday with a performance by singer-songwriters Nancy Sferra and Heather Hardy from 9:30 to 11 a.m. in the library’s Reading Room.
Skowhegan physician assistant gives up license after conduct complaints
SKOWHEGAN — Neil C. Robertson, of Skowhegan, has surrendered his physician assistant’s license to the Maine Board of Licensure in Medicine for unprofessional conduct.
HIGH SCHOOL FIELD HOCKEY ROUNDUP: Michonski lifts Skowhegan
BANGOR — Makaela Michonski had her third four-goal game of the season as the Skowhegan Area High School field hockey team beat Bangor 6-0 in a Kennebec Valley Athletic Conference Class A game Thursday.