Winthrop High School baseball coach Marc Fortin will tell you he’s the same coach today that he was five years ago, or even 10. This year was his 18th with the Ramblers and the game remains the same.
July 2013
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Kennebec Journal area police log, July 13, 2013
AUGUSTA, FRIDAY, At 7:22 p.m., criminal trespass was reported at MTC Enterprises on Gage Street.
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NASCAR: Kurt Busch storms into contention
LOUDON, N.H. (AP) — Kurt Busch has lost rides with top teams. He’s paid the price for losing his cool more times than anyone in NASCAR can count.
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Lac-Megantic’s resilience tested after ‘le train d’enfer’
There are similarities between Lac-Megantic in the wake of July 6’s deadly train explosion and the Sept. 11 attacks: sudden, deadly conflagrations; victims whose virtually vaporized remains defied easy identification; relatives clinging to faint hopes that somehow their loved ones might be seen alive somewhere.
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Events will mark black troops’ fight
The 54th Massachusetts proved black soldiers were capable of fighting during the Civil War.
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Man drowns in Saco River in Conway, N.H.
Police say he jumped from a railroad trestle.
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MiffOnEdge seeks to blur lines between cinema, stationary arts
MiffOnEdge, an installation of experimental video, music and kinetic sculpture that’s part of the Maine International Film Festival, opened Saturday in the old post office building in downtown Waterville.
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Experts: Maine’s open access tradition doesn’t trump checking with landowners
Maine has a tradition of open access for hunters, but authorities still advise hunters to check with property owners before hunting on private land, even if it is not posted.
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A shot in the woods: Starks clash ignites age-old tensions between hunters, landowners
The shooting of Kerry Hebert, 57, of Starks in October came after Hebert grabbed a rifle held by Robert Pond, 76, of Hartford, during a scuffle between a party of hunters and Hebert, who argued over their pursuit of a wounded deer near his property.
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Voter ID law goes on trial in Pennsylvania
WASHINGTON – The fierce battle over Pennsylvania’s voter ID law goes to trial on Monday in a state courtroom in Harrisburg. The legal fight began with a lawsuit by the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania and other groups in May 2012. A state judge temporarily blocked the voter ID law from affecting Election Day […]