SKOWHEGAN — A Fairfield woman has been indicted by a Somerset County grand jury on charges of trafficking in prison contraband and possession of drugs.
2012
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MAINE COMPASS: Why is the organized protest against Lego, and why now?
Just before the holidays, two amazing young bloggers for the SPARK (Sexualization Protest: Action, Resistance, Knowledge) movement, Stephanie Cole and Bailey Shoemaker Richards, joined Powered By Girl, the girl activist arm of Hardy Girls Healthy Women, to initiate a protest of Lego’s new Friends line for little girls.
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LUGE: Olympian Clukey opens camp for girls
MANCHESTER — Olympian Julia Clukey of Augusta took a break from luge training at Lake Placid, N.Y., to address students Wednesday at Manchester Elementary School and announce a new summer camp she plans to host for girls in June.
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PATRIOTS BEAT: Family matters
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — Vince Wilfork is many things to the New England Patriots: a run-stuffing defensive lineman, a veteran leader in the locker room, a surprisingly nimble runner for a guy who goes at least 325 pounds.
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‘This was such a waste’
Central Maine Power Co. ordered one of its contractors Tuesday to indefinitely suspend work pending an investigation into the death of an employee who fell from a utility pole in Saco.
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ON SKIING: Snow guns help ski areas combat woeful winter
After a big tease in the form of snowstorms around Halloween and Thanksgiving, it’s been a distressingly snowless ski season thus far. The country has less than half the average snow cover over the past five years for this time of the year, and we New Englanders in particular expect some snow on the ground before mid-January.
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DEIRDRE FLEMING: Gift inspires artist who knows Baxter State Park well
When Friends of Baxter State Park President Barbara Bentley learned two weeks ago that the privately owned parcel beside Katahdin Lake would be given to Baxter State Park, she turned to the one person she thought could truly understand the nature of this unusual place.
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VIEW FROM ELSEWHERE: Coach Paterno blew the call
Accept, for the moment, the truth of former Penn State football coach Joe Paterno’s version of his role in the sexual abuse allegations involving one of his former assistants.
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Waterville City Council reconsiders possible station site
WATERVILLE — City councilors at a special meeting Jan. 31 will reconsider the Morning Sentinel building as a possible site for a police station now that a lower asking price is being offered.
Posted inLetters to the Editor, Opinion
Romney’s business success a model for government
All along, Mitt Romney’s fellow Republican candidates have been taking pot-shots about his ability to serve as our next president. It seems as if they are intent on providing President Barack Obama with all the ammunition he needs to defeat Romney in November. The latest attack accuses Romney of being a “capitalistic predator” because he […]