LEWISTON — A man who died this month at age 80 nearly took a secret to his grave — a secret that was discovered only after his family went through his belongings in a storage unit. Inside an unplugged freezer, they found a set of human remains that investigators believe may be those of the […]
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Officials question Camden Hills laptop repair bill
ROCKPORT — Administrators at Camden Hills Regional High School say a $56,000 bill for laptop repairs last year is “astronomically” high and are blaming student carelessness. The school is one of 69 statewide that participate in a Maine Learning Technology Initiative program, under the Maine Department of Education, that makes laptops available to high school […]
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Gas prices down by a penny
PORTLAND — Gas prices in Maine trickled down by about a penny over the past week and are now averaging $3.54 per gallon. Price-monitoring website MaineGasPrices.com reports Monday that the cost is now seven cents higher than the national average and 65 cents more than the price in the state at the same time last […]
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Mass. hiker carried off Tumbledown Mountain
TOWNSHIP 6 — A hiker from Massachusetts had to be carried out of the woods over the weekend after slipping on rocks and injuring her ankle. The Maine Warden Service says 48-year-old Karen Chase of Marblehead, Mass. was hiking on the Brook Trail on Tumbledown Mountain north of Weld at about 4 p.m. on Saturday […]
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12-year-old hunter accidentally shoots himself
WATERBORO — Authorities say a 12-year-old boy accidentally shot himself in the foot while hunting with his uncle. The Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife says the boy was resting the barrel of a .243-caliber rifle on his right foot while hunting in Waterboro on Saturday afternoon when it went off while the boy […]
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Landfill expansion at issue before state
ORONO — Environmental regulators will hear more details about a proposed expansion of a landfill in Old Town operated by Casella Waste Systems. The state Department of Environmental Protection will hold a public meeting in Orono on Monday on plans for the state-owned Juniper Ridge Landfill. The focus will be on how the project would […]
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Journey to Sierra Leone
Mike Seamans considers that he might be single for a long time.
“I won’t buy a girl a diamond,” the Morning Sentinel photographer said after a summer excursion to Sierra Leone with Greg Campbell, author of “Blood Diamonds: Tracing the Deadly Path of the World’s Most Precious Stones.”
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Maranacook happy to be home
Maranacook Community School football coach Joe Emery can’t recall the last time the Black Bears hosted a playoff game. Maybe it was back in the day, before the program was dropped in the 1980s, he said.
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KATHERINE “KAY” CUSICK LAVALLEE 1918-2011
GARDINER — Katherine “Kay” Cusick Lavallee, 93, of Gardiner died Saturday Oct. 22, 2011, at the Heritage Living and Rehabilitation Center in Winthrop. She was born in Farmingdale on July 23, 1918, a daughter of Thomas and Margaret Burns Cusick.
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1990 Honda Accordreaches million mile mark
SACO — Joe LoCicero’s 1990 Honda Accord slipped into a parking spot in front of City Hall with its engine purring, much as it did two decades ago after it rolled off the assembly line in Marysville, Ohio.