Whitefield Elementary School students take collective bites out of apples Thursday during a celebration of the locally grown fruit.
September 2013
SNAPSHOT: Tiger pride
Hallowell firefighters Lt. Roy Girard, left, Capt. Richard Clark, Chief Michael Grant and Ryan Girard display a trophy Wednesday that the volunteer company received Sept. 14, for exhibiting the department’s Tiger engine at the 50th annual Maine State Federation of Firefighters Convention in Ellsworth.
SNAPSHOT: Trial by fire
Gardiner firefighters wait to extinguish a blaze Monday during a training exercise at a Gardiner home donated to the city.
SNAPSHOT: Petanque pointers
Raymond Fecteau, left, gives Adriana Yeaton, center, some advice on where to throw the metal ball, called a boule, during her pétanque game against Ian Gifford, right, on Friday at Farrington School in Augusta.
College football: UMaine becoming an unwelcome guest
The Black Bears pick up another big road victory, making a late stand to beat Richmond, 28-21.
New England regulators want alewive, blueback harvest caps
Regional fishery managers have adopted limits on how much river herring can be caught by huge trawlers working New England waters.
LePage touts Maine products at Big E
Gov. Paul LePage attended New England’s largest fair today to promote the sale of Maine products.
Maine bands raise money for hunger relief
Area musicians performed Friday and Saturday in Brunswick to raise money for programs that fight hunger.
Syria official says peace plan must include Assad
Syria’s government will not accept any transition peace plan that excludes President Bashar Assad, Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem told The Associated Press in an interview Saturday.
A week after mall attack, a nervous time in Nairobi
On Saturday afternoon at Nairobi’s Junction shopping center, many people were focusing on what had begun one week earlier at the Westgate Mall a couple miles away, where a team of Islamist gunmen had launched a bloody four-day siege