A student team has been awarded a $15,000 Environmental Protection Agency grant to develop the system.
2013
Maine cutback order brings Appropriations Committee back early
On the agenda is a $35.5 million curtailment order signed a week ago by Gov. Paul LePage.
Name of Bangor stabbing victim disclosed
Police say 34-year-old Jeffrey Leblanc was stabbed once in the abdomen at a city home at about 2:30 a.m. Saturday.
LOCAL ROUNDUP: Lee, Quirion pace Rams to win
AUGUSTA — Josie Lee had 16 points, 12 rebounds and eight assists to lead Cony past Hampden 57-41 in a Kennebec Valley Athletic Conference Class A girls basketball game Wednesday.
Monmouth meeting to focus on tax break proposal
MONMOUTH — Town officials are hosting an informational meeting tonight to provide highlights of a tax break proposal aimed at sprucing up the downtown.
Flurry of applications for new charter school in Portland
PORTLAND — More than 30 students applied in the first 24 hours for admission to Portland’s new charter school, the Baxter Academy of Technology and Science.
Sanford becomes Maine’s newest city, two months after vote by residents
Sanford is the newest city in Maine — and perhaps the country — but the changes won’t be especially visible right away.
John Birch Society hoping to gain traction in state
The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 took away the John Birch Society’s prime issue — communism — but the organization is hoping to rebuild itself using Ron Paul supporters and opposition to a one-world government as a base.
Gannett Woods trail receives upgrade
MANCHESTER — The Manchester Conservation Commission recently installed 62 cedar bog bridges on Kennebec Land Trust’s Gannett Woods hiking trail adjacent to Shedd Pond.
Births: Dec. 2 and 3
AUGUSTA — A daughter, Jaylynn St. Hilaire, was born Dec. 3 at MaineGeneral Medical Center, Augusta campus, to Casandra Sirois and Matt St. Hilaire of Monmouth.