Got your town report handy? Didn’t think so. Bet you haven’t looked at it since town meeting. You checked the budget items, took a look to see who hadn’t paid their property taxes, then forgot about it.
2012
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BOOKS: No more ramen noodles: A cookbook for students
When writing a cookbook for beginners, it’s best to assume complete ignorance. Mincing may be new to the reader’s vocabulary. Rice may require step-by-step instructions.
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Many Maine school districts too small for Race to the Top grants
AUGUSTA — After the state struck out in two versions of the Race to the Top federal grant competition, few Maine schools now seem interested in a new district-level round of grants.
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BOOKS: Poet reflects on the winter of his life
Thirty years ago, a struggling poet and translator of French poetry published a memoir of his father that marked him as a writer worth watching. “The Invention of Solitude” ended a bleak few years in Paul Auster’s life when his first marriage had disintegrated, he was suffering from writer’s block, and he could barely eke out a living.
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MaineGeneral Health announces new CEO
AUGUSTA -— Top leadership changes are in store for MaineGeneral Health, hospital officials said Wednesday.
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Bingham bank robbery suspect doesn’t post bail, still in jail
EAST MADISON — A Waterville man remained behind bars Wednesday at the Somerset County Jail on a charge that he robbed the Bingham branch of Camden National Bank last week.
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OUTDOORS: Get to the Point
Although on many trips Down East we had noticed the signs for the Petit Manan National Wildlife Refuge on Petit Manan Point a few miles past Steuben on coastal Route 1 between Sullivan and Milbridge, it was only recently on the way back from a few days’ camping on Campobello that we journeyed down Pigeon Hill Road on Dyer Neck to the refuge for a closer look.
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Morning Sentinel police log and arrests: Sept. 5, 2016
IN FAIRFIELD, Tuesday, at 1:43 a.m., a disturbance was reported on Burrill Street.
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OUTDOORS: Birds eyes the best of any animal
I’ve been looking at a lot of shorebirds recently, now that migration has commenced. Have you ever seen a shorebird bob its head up and down rapidly? That behavior is the way that a bird with monocular vision can measure distance.
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OUR OPINION: Health coverage suit a blatantly political stunt
Maine’s campaign to reverse progress in health reform entered a new phase this week, when state Attorney General William Schneider filed suit in federal court, seeking to speed up the federal decision-making process on a state plan to eliminate health coverage for 33,000 people.