PORTLAND — Video cameras are seemingly everywhere. Soon there’ll even be one hanging from around the neck of a Maine black bear as it interacts with its cubs, forages for berries or perhaps makes its way into a backyard bird feeder.
February 2013
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NFL: A Super Bowl of 1st, last, best
NEW ORLEANS — The journey to this Super Bowl wound through bounties and replacement refs, eventually bringing the big game back to the Big Easy — with a replacement quarterback, a sibling rivalry and a grand exit for one of the NFL’s greatest players, clouded by the obscure healing powers of deer-antler spray.
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Morning Sentinel area police log, Feb. 2, 2013
IN ALBION, Saturday, a disturbance was reported on Benton Road.
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Alarm over climate ‘tipping point’ fueled Portland rally
Hoping to restrict pipelines and quash the pursuit of tar sands oil, activists make their global fight local.
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Recent warm snap, rain, lack of snow delay, derail and amend region’s winter activities
Last week’s unseasonable thaw and subsequent cold snap have disrupted plans for cardboard box sledding, snowshoeing and dogsledding in the area, but planned skiing, snow tubing, ice fishing and pond hockey events are proceeding as planned.
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TRAVIS LAZACZYK: Smith wants to help players prepare for life after football
Johnathon Smith was in Joe Flacco’s house that day in April, 2008, when the phone rang. It was the Baltimore Ravens, calling to tell Flacco they had just selected him with the 18th pick in the first round of the NFL draft.
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REGIONAL WRESTLING: Madison finishes 2nd in Western C
BUCKSPORT — The Madison wrestling team turned in some strong individual performances at the Western C championships Saturday, but Dirigo that cruised to the team title.
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COLLEGE ROUNDUP: Colby men’s hockey rallies for tie
WATERVILLE — The Colby College men’s hockey team scored three goals in the span of 3 minutes, 15 seconds of the third period to tie 11th-ranked Amherst College 3-3 in a New England Small College Athletic Conference game Saturday at Alfond Rink.
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SAD 49 policy to clarify copyright issues for teachers
FAIRFIELD — A new policy proposal under consideration in the local school district may help teachers know whether they are violating copyright laws when they, for example, project a copyrighted picture from the Internet onto a screen during a class.
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Once more into the rink: Waterville area sees resurgence of ice skating
WATERVILLE — Time is cyclical, some say. Decades ago, outdoor ice skating rinks were commonplace in central Maine. In the 1960s and ’70s, scads of school-aged boys roamed from neighborhood to neighborhood, playing pickup hockey games on makeshift backyard rinks and public facilities.