If you can’t be optimistic at the start of a new year, you probably won’t get much opportunity later.
2012
Upper Kennebec Valley Ambulance Service asking for help
BINGHAM — Since 2008, the Upper Kennebec Valley Ambulance Service has seen a 30 percent decrease in the number of requests to take people to the hospital.
Bates boys brewing up a cider storm
WATERVILLE — Ben Manter wrote the book on hard cider. Sort of.
Healthy Community Coalition earns grant
FARMINGTON — The Environmental Funders Network recently awarded $45,000 to the Healthy Community Coalition of Greater Franklin County to continue the Mapping Our Footsteps project.
Bikes for Books continues in fourth year
MADISON — Seven-year-old Jack Theriault loves reading, and it’s not just because he might win a new bicycle.
Albion nomination papers now available
ALBION — Nomination papers for elected positions are now available at the Town Office.
‘I’m here to help,’ father says
WATERVILLE — Justin DiPietro wants his daughter back.
Reisert could have helped, instead he fanned flames
I was very disappointed with Joe Reisert’s recent column about the Occupy movement. Reisert began by comparing the Occupiers to a child throwing a tantrum. This fallacy of argument is covered in high school English classes. Second, he extrapolates from the individual to the whole, a fallacy Reisert understands. For example, in our current economic […]
NBA D-LEAGUE: Davis looking to get back to NBA
PORTLAND — Ricky Davis knew something was wrong with his left knee. He had constant pain and couldn’t get any push off the leg. And for someone who made his living as a scorer, that wasn’t good.
Gardiner pharmacy robbed
Police are looking for a man in his 20s with a scruffy beard that this afternoon robbed a Gardiner pharmacy of prescription narcotics.