AUGUSTA — The University of Maine at Augusta will hold free college planning workshops from 4 to 6 p.m. Tuesday, April 2, and from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday, April 4, in the Fireplace Lounge of the Randall Student Center on the Augusta campus.
March 2013
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Bill would create agency for pipeline support
AUGUSTA — A new government agency with the power to issue bonds and designate pipeline corridors could help the state increase natural gas supplies and lower electricity prices, according to a bipartisan group of lawmakers.
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Hallowell Feeding Hallowell food bank benefit set for March 30
HALLOWELL — Local business will participate in a fundraiser for The Hallowell Food Bank on Saturday.
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Maranacook Adult Education announces spring courses
READFIELD — Regional School Unit 38 — Maranacook Adult Education has announced its spring course lineup.
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Town of Pittston seeks Spirit of America nominations
PITTSTON — The Town Office will accept nominations of Pittston residents for the Spirit of America Award until April 5.
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‘Admission’ Makes the wait list
We all love Tina Fey, not just because she’s brilliant, but because she’s always the same. It’s comforting, like going to Mongolia and seeing that golden McDonald’s arch as you ride up in your ox cart.
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Alejandro Escovedo enjoys trying new things
For 35 years Alejandro Escovedo has been making music. Back at college in a San Francisco punk band The Nuns, then playing guitar in Rank and File and finally forming a roots rock group his brother, Javier, The True Believers. In 1992 he became a solo artist and since that time has released 11 solo albums — the latest, “Big Station,” was released on June 5, 2012, on Fantasy Records. In support of that album he’s hitting the road once more with his backing band The Sensitive Boys. They will be at The Strand in Rockland on April 4 (for more information, call 594-0070, ext. 3, or visit rocklandstrand.com). To that end a phone interview was arranged with the rocker from his home in Austin, Texas.
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ACLU: Feds secretly using highly invasive spying tool
A device known as a StingRay simulates a cellphone tower and enables agents to collect the serial numbers of individual cellphones and then locate them.
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$3M Rumford mill settlementdoes not deter Portland firm
A $3 million settlement between the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and Rumford Paper Co. about allegations involving energy market manipulations hasn’t changed a Portland energy company’s plans to fight related charges in court.
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Pease completes basic training in Texas
SAN ANTONIO, Texas — Air Force Airman Zachary W. Pease recently graduated from basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base, in San Antonio.