Next nail clipping fundraiser set for Feb. 13.
2016
Posted inMaine, News
China to hold information meeting on mandatory pay-per-bag trash system
After the trial program begins July 1, the transfer station will accept only the program’s bags until a November referendum on the program.
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Posted inCommunity
Rangeley Chili/Chowder Cook-off winners announced
The Shed, Forks in the Air take top awards.
Posted inMaine, News
Woman, 80, crashes Lexus into AAA’s Portland offices
After apparently pressing the gas pedal instead of the brake, the driver is ‘totally shocked.’
Posted inPolitics
Winthrop man seeks Senate District 14 seat
George O’Keefe Jr., a Democrat, is running for the seat now held by Sen. Earle McCormick, R-West Gardiner.
Posted inCops & Courts, Maine, News
Windham man held in wife’s killing pending bail hearing
An attorney for Noah Gaston, who is charged with killing Alicia Gaston in their home on Jan. 14, says he seems ‘devastated,’ characterizing the shooting as a terrible accident, not a murder.
Posted inMaine, Maine Crime, News
Trial starts for Wayne man accused of throwing infant down stairs
William G. Lord, 40, a former Riverview Psychiatric Center nurse involved in a controversial pepper-spray incident, is on trial on charges of aggravated assault and domestic violence assault on a baby.
Posted inMaine, Maine Crime, News
Augusta couple pleads not guilty to charge of murder in November slaying
Zina Marie Fritze, 27, and Michael Sean McQuade, 45, are charged with the murder of 31-year-old Joseph Marceau in the couple’s Washington Street apartment.
Posted inBusiness, Maine, News
Maine’s December unemployment rate lowest in 15 years
The monthly rate was 4 percent, full percentage point lower than the national rate.
Posted inNation & World, News
Health minister: Brazil is ‘losing battle’ against mosquito
Marcelo Castro said that nearly 220,000 members of Brazil’s Armed Forces would go door-to-door to help in mosquito eradication efforts ahead of the country’s Carnival celebrations.