July 4, 2014
Waterville area events
June 2014
Posted inLocal & State, News
Maine man killed when tractor rolls over on him
A friend’s wife was injured when she went to help.
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Posted inNation & World, News
Trial resumes as Pistorius deemed not mentally ill during killing
A panel of four mental health experts concludes that the double-amputee runner was capable of understanding the wrongfulness of his act when he shot Steenkamp through a closed toilet door.
Posted inLocal & State, News
Contamination up slightly at Maine beaches last year
However, officials say 95 percent of 2013 beach days were free of beach advisories or closures.
Posted inLetters to the Editor
Drug, alcohol abuse put state at all-time social low point
In reading the June 14 article, “Child abuse in Maine increases 58%,” one realizes that Maine is at an all-time social low point when it comes to drug and alcohol abuse. All one has to do is read the police logs to see that domestic violence and robberies are mostly a result of drug and […]
Posted inChapters, Unsettled
White men from out of state come hunting for girls
November 14, 1965 Story by Colin Woodard, Staff Writer Photos by Gabe Souza / Staff Photographer Captured in the early morning through the aperture of a pinhole camera recently, this stretch of road leads into Pleasant Point Indian Reservation, where a menacing situation developed late in 1965, when out-of-state hunters clashed with the native residents. […]
Posted inLetters to the Editor
U.S. civilian militia is defined in U.S. Code of laws
Letter writer David Mills (June 15) and contributor George D. Christie (June 16) writing in “Another View,” suffer concern when others reference the Second Amendment and do not include the beginning: “A well regulated militia….” It seems they may be implying that the omission indicates an admission that the Second Amendment may be on weak […]
Posted inEditorials
OUR OPINION: Subsidies support food that is likely making U.S. sick
Billions of dollars in direct aid yield tens of billions in health care costs.
Posted inLetters to the Editor
State cannot afford another political embarrassment
With air-sickness bags handy, I read Bruce Poliquin’s June 3 column, “Second Amendment right to keep, bear arms inviolate, not open to interpretation.” I don’t know whether Poliquin is a tea party member, but if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it’s a duck. I am deeply concerned that our state […]
