BINGHAM — Quimby Middle School and Upper Kennebec Valley Memorial High School recently announced its first-quarter honor roll.
2012
Board approves new engineered seeds for state
AUGUSTA — The state’s pesticide control board has agreed to add two new Bt-corn products to the list of genetically engineered seeds grown in Maine.
Tarzan’s ‘second banana’ dead, but when?
I got a chuckle after reading the last paragraph in an article of the Dec. 29 Morning Sentinel. The article, on page C7, was headlined: “Tarzan’s chimpanzee sidekick Cheetah, dead at 80; or maybe not,” an AP story from Palm Harbor, Fla. The last paragraph: “A similar claim about another chimpanzee that supposedly played Weissmuller’s […]
Morning Sentinel police log: Jan. 10, 2012
IN OAKLAND, Friday at 12:13 p.m., an unwanted person was reported on Pleasant Street.
MAINE COMPASS: LURC reforms stronger without county opt-out, if members face legislative review
Since August, the task force charged with reforming the Land Use Regulatory Commission, which governs the unorganized territory, has traveled the state, listening to people who live and work in the region.
State warns of fake loan company
The state Bureau of Consumer Credit Protection on Monday issued a warning about what it described as a phony loan company that’s claiming falsely to be based in a central Maine town.
Teague earns health care certification
FARMINGTON — Franklin Community Health Network recently announced that Cole Teague has earned the designation of certified health care facility manager from the American Hospital Association Certification Center. Teague was appointed chief of facilities manager for the health network.
Jobless need to consider the company they keep
When people are unemployed, they should be very careful how they present themselves to the public. When they organize into a political group, they need to consider where they make their alliances. An example would be not joining forces with those exhibiting unprofessional behavior. If unprofessional behavior borders on being criminal, credibility would diminish. Then […]
MIKE TIPPING: Heritage Policy Center muddies line between advocacy, news
Over the past week, many have faulted the Maine Heritage Policy Center, a conservative advocacy organization with close ties to Gov. Paul LePage and Republican leaders in the Legislature, for the words of Leif Parsell, a so-called reporter the policy center hired for its new “news wire.”
SAD 13 board to vote on closing Quimby school
BINGHAM — The school board faces an issue tonight that could change the district’s makeup: whether to close Quimby Middle School.