A half-dozen burglaries from motor vehicles, and one theft of an entire vehicle, were reported in the Sewall Street area.
2022
Posted inNation & World, News
Handful of Pearl Harbor survivors drawn to Hawaii ‘out of respect’
A handful of centenarian survivors of the attack on Pearl Harbor gathered at the scene in Hawaii to commemorate those who perished 81 years ago in the Japanese bombing
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Posted inNation & World, News, Politics
Justices skeptical of Republicans’ case to give total election control to legislatures
State courts have become the only legal forum for challenging partisan congressional maps since the Supreme Court ruled in 2019 that those lawsuits cannot be brought in federal court.
Posted inBusiness, Maine, Nation & World, News
Maine startup hopes trawler cams help save world’s dwindling fish stocks
To sustainably manage what’s left, scientists need reliable data on the activities of the tens of thousands of fishing vessels, but independent observers are scarce. Can technology do the job?
Posted inColumns, Dana Wilde
Backyard Naturalist: Letter from the future
Imagining his grandson three decades from now, Dana Wilde ponders the mess we’re making of the environment and why we allow it to happen for future generations when we know what we’re doing.
Posted inKennebec Journal, Maine
Kennebec County mulls gift of memorial bench honoring late probate judge
Kennebec County commissioners plan to decide in two weeks whether to accept a granite bench as a memorial to the late Judge James Mitchell, who presided over Kennebec County’s probate court for nearly four decades before his death in 2016.
Posted inCommunity, Morning Sentinel
‘Play that Goes Wrong’ auditions set for Dec. 12, 13 in Waterville
WATERVILLE — Auditions for “The Play That Goes Wrong” are set for 6 p.m. Monday and Tuesday, Dec. 12 and 13, on the Waterville Opera House Main Stage, 1 Common St. Callbacks will begin at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 14. Part Monty Python, part Sherlock Holmes, “The Play That Goes Wrong” is a play-within-a-play that […]
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Federal prison officials made multiple mistakes before Whitey Bulger’s killing, DOJ finds
The Justice Department’s inspector general found no evidence that there was ‘malicious intent’ involved in decisions made before Boston gangster James ‘Whitey’ Bulger’s slaying but found multiple levels of management failures.
Posted inNation & World, News
Putin admits Ukraine war is taking longer than expected
Russian President Vladimir Putin has hailed the seizure of Ukrainian territory as a major achievement.
Posted inJ.P. Devine, Life & Culture, Movie Review J.P. Devine
Perfectly cast group returns in ‘Slow Horses’
In a time of sex, gore, vampires and endless Jeopardy winners, the masterful “Slow Horses” is more than welcome back. This British contemporary spy thriller, based on the 11th book in the “Lamb” series by writer Mick Herron, (whose background is currently being featured in the Dec. 5 issue of New Yorker Magazine) is back […]