The Waterville baseball team begins its quest for a fifth straight appearance in the Eastern B championship game Wednesday when it hosts Camden Hills in the season opener.
April 2013
MLB: Buchholz gets near no-hitter
BOSTON (AP) — Clay Buchholz was a nervous 23-year-old rookie when he threw a no-hitter in his second major league start. He was more relaxed when he nearly did it again Sunday.
MASTERS: GREAT SCOTT!
AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — Adam Scott finished the job this time, and put an end to more than a half-century of Australian misery at the Masters.
NASCAR: Keselowski irate at NASCAR
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Brad Keselowski had plenty of good things to say about his team for all it overcame for another top-10 finish.
A patriotic duty: Federal taxes must be sent in Monday
Feds won’t wait because of Patriots Day; state taxes can be filed by midnight Tuesday.
Kennebec Journal area police log, April 14, 2013
AUGUSTA, SATURDAY, At 6:59 p.m., harassment was reported at Greentree Apartments on New England Road.
SNAPSHOT: Sheepscot paddlers
Haskell Padgett, of Whitefield, right, and Nathaniel Wing, of Edgecomb, descend falls on the Sheepscot River in Whitefield Sunday in a 13-foot canoe. The men were paddling down the river, charged with melted snow, to Head Tide in Alna, a 10-mile journey, they said.
Democrats call LePage’s school-ratings plan a ‘scarlet letter’
Democrats call Gov. Paul LePage’s school grading system a “scarlet letter”; lobstermen consider unionizing; an Esquire magazine blogger verbally bludgeons LePage; and legislators join schoolchildren for April vacation.
State House calendar, week of April 15, 2013
Legislative hearings and work sessions for the week of April 15, 2013.
Elm City’s downtown cafes in full bloom
Holy Cannoli, The Button-Down Cafe and Selah Tea Cafe have all found success in downtown Waterville, and are expanding their spaces, offerings or hours to meet demand.