“Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable!” so declared Senator Daniel Webster in ending his famous 1830 reply in the U.S. Senate to South Carolina Sen. Robert Hayne’s angry defense of slavery and of a state’s right to nullify federal law. Leading up to the Civil War in 1861, Southerners loved an America […]
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Posted inMaine, News
Maine postal history collection going up for auction
Collector Nancy Clark says it’s time to share her historical stamps and letters with a new generation.
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Posted inMaine, Maine Crime, News
Judge to weigh new DNA evidence in Dennis Dechaine case
An attorney for the man convicted of killing Sarah Cherry in 1988 is arguing for witness testimony and a crime scene reconstruction in his bid for a new trial.
Posted inMaine, News, Schools and Education
Maine’s most selective colleges say little about their legacy admissions practices
Bowdoin, Colby and Bates answered few questions about preference given to applicants related to alumni and donors.
Posted inOn this date
July 17, 1995: Iggy, the 3-foot green iguana, has gone missing in Anson, goose deaths stir the town of Emden, and Pittsfield may hold its own local holiday after drilling a new source of water for town
Visit Centralmaine.com/archive to view nearly 200 years’ worth of history at your fingertips.
Posted inCommunity, Kennebec Journal, Morning Sentinel
Democrats to host annual lobster bake in Waldoboro Aug. 6
Online reservations can be made before July 31.
Posted inCommunity
August auditions set for Belfast Maskers Festival of One Acts
The October production will feature four short plays with parts for six male and six female adults.
Posted inCommunity
Monmouth student makes Husson University online’s dean’s list
BANGOR — Monmouth student Christy Lynn Parker was recently named to Husson University online’s dean’s list. Parker is enrolled in Husson’s Bachelor of Science in psychology program. Full-time online students who earn dean’s list recognition must be enrolled as an undergraduate, carry a full-time load of 12 credit hours over the course of 21 weeks, […]
Posted inNation & World, News
Suspect in 4 Georgia deaths killed in shootout with police, 3 officers wounded, authorities say
Authorities say officers shot and killed a man in an exchange of gunfire as they tried to arrest the suspect in the weekend killings of four people near Atlanta
Posted inMaine, Maine Crime, News
Defendants in over 100 Maine cases had no legal representation late last week, state says
Maine’s public defense agency puts out an urgent call for help after the loss of another public defender.