In April 1775, at the outbreak of the American Revolution, the British Army arrogantly considered the colonial militiamen nothing more than “a rabble in arms,” timid farmers who would run away at the first sight of redcoat bayonets. The British even concluded their mauling at Lexington and Concord was a fluke, but two months later in Boston, the Battle of Bunker Hill proved them wrong — the Americans not only could fight, they could fight well.
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TRAVELIN’ MAINE(RS): Head to New Gloucester and have yourself a Merry Shaker Christmas
Q: What do people from Georgia, Rhode Island, Iowa, Colorado, Wisconsin, California, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and New Jersey know that you don’t?
A: They know that Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village in New Gloucester is an amazing place. There were people at Shaker Village from each of those states, as well as England, on the October morning we visited.
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SNAPSHOT: ‘Tis the season
Debra Bilodeau, left, and Jeannine Bouchard wrap lights around a railing on Saturday morning as they and other relatives help Roger Jean decorate his house on Mount Vernon Avenue in Augusta. Jean said that he’d decorated the first floor porch and yard beginning in the 1950s. Since 2004 it has became a group project as […]
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KENNEBEC JOURNAL GOLFER OF THE YEAR: Maranacook sophomore looking for state titles
Most sophomores would love to finish runner-up at the state individual golf championships. Not Luke Ruffing.
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Blaine House unoccupied
AUGUSTA — Nine people were arrested for refusing to leave the grounds of the Blaine House during an Occupy Augusta rally on Sunday.
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Book aims to help children cope with loss of pet
PORTLAND (AP) — First there was Marley, the rambunctious Labrador retriever whose death brought readers to tears in John Grogan’s “Marley and Me.” Now there’s Sammy, a mixed-breed hound who’s the subject of another tear-jerker, a children’s book, “Sammy in the Sky.”
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Massachusetts entry will increase casino competition
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — The race is on for more casinos in southern New England as Connecticut and Rhode Island look to expand to keep up with huge competition expected from Massachusetts, now that the Bay State has jumped into the business.
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‘Bath salts’ grow
FARMINGTON — Emergency responders in western Maine are bracing for what they say will be the inevitable arrival of “bath salts,” a synthetic hallucinogenic drug that already has wreaked havoc in Bangor and other communities statewide.
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DISTRICT COURT
AUGUSTA — The following is a list of cases closed between Nov. 17 and Nov. 23 in Augusta District Court.