Nico Schultz won’t have much time to relax at home over his winter break from Connecticut College. The Waterville Senior High School graduate will head back to school on Dec. 27 to join the Camels swimming team on their training trip to Naples, Fla.
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Posted inCommunity
Common kindergarten screening gets funding
WATERVILLE — Educare Central Maine was recently awarded $40,000 from two Maine-based foundations to lead a common kindergarten screening pilot project.
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Posted inSports
NHL LOCKOUT: Mediators return to NHL labor talks
TORONTO (AP) — NHL labor negotiations will resume today, with mediators rejoining the talks at an undisclosed location in an effort to save the hockey season.
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
OUR OPINION: Deferring age for Medicare not best solution
Trimming the federal budget deficit by raising the eligibility age for Medicare from 65 to 67 meets H.L. Mencken’s definition of and answer to a complex problem that is “clear, simple and wrong.”
Posted inSports
NFL: Proud Patriots move on after easy win
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — The Patriots insist that their rout of the Texans was not a “statement” game to show they could excel against the team with the NFL’s best record.
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COLEGE NOTEBOOK: Martin reaches milestone at Keene
Maranacook graduate Ryan Martin scored his 1,000th career point at Keene State College last week, topping the milestone in less than two-and-half seasons. Martin, who transferred from Division I Maine, is in his final year of eligibility.
Posted inLetters to the Editor, Opinion
Junior rifle club not part of Capitol City club
A lot has been said about the Capitol City Rifle and Pistol Club trying to get rid of the kids who use its ranges. This isn’t true; no one wants to get rid of this program, but the way its management does things needs to change.
Posted inLetters to the Editor, Opinion
Let’s pay Congress flat salary only for work done
Unless we’ve just arrived from another planet, most likely we’ve heard and seen much in the news about our ill-fated Congress getting ready to drive off the fiscal cliff.
Posted inOpinion
GEORGE SMITH: Don’t give puppies or kittens as gifts; no limas or wallabies, either
Please don’t give animals as Christmas gifts: no dogs, no cats, no parakeets and definitely no wallabies.
Posted inOpinion
COMMENTARY: Profiles in cowardice
Last week, the Senate voted on the U.N. Convention on Rights of Persons with Disabilities, which would extend to the rest of the world many of the rights that Americans with disabilities already have.