July 2015
Posted inCommunity
Pittsfield’s Central Maine Egg Festival continues July 15-18
For complete schedule, visit centralmaineeggfestival.org.
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Posted inCommunity
Land trust foraging walk set for July 18
Walk to take place at Connor Mill Trail in Unity.
Posted inNation & World, News
Teen hikes to safety after plane crashes into mountain, kills relatives
Autumn Veatch, 16, walked ‘for a couple of days,’ a local sheriff says, calling the feat ‘pretty impressive.’
Posted inMaine, News
Man gets nearly 8 years in prison in Maine for scheme to sell stolen N.C. Wyeth art
Four of six paintings stolen from Portland resident Joseph Soley in 2013 have been recovered, and Soley made a public plea for the return of the two missing works.
Posted inCollege Connection
Studying how traumatic childhood events affect health
I first learned of the adverse childhood experiences (ACE) study a few years ago as I was working on understanding how stress impacts our health and well-being through the psychoneuroimmunological system. The ACE study was performed in the late 1990s by the Centers for Disease Control and Kaiser Permanente with 17,000 participants, and the goal […]
Posted inBusiness, Nation & World, News
Wal-Mart accused of same-sex bias in class-action lawsuit
The lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Boston seeks damages for employees who were not offered medical insurance for their same-sex spouse.
Posted inNation & World, News
CERN scientists claim discovery of new particles: pentaquarks
The discovery, if verified, would be the second major find at the Large Hadron Collider, which is used by physicists from around the world.
Posted inMaine, News
Steven Rowe of Portland is named to head Maine Community Foundation
The former attorney general and Maine House speaker, will lead the second-largest foundation in Maine.
Posted inNation & World, News
After deal, Israel still vows to block an Iran nuclear bomb
Israel’s first course of action looks to be an intense lobbying effort in the U.S. Congress to oppose the deal.