WATERVILLE — A man was arrested and his pregnant companion summoned Wednesday after police say the pair used a discarded store receipt to pull a scam at the store.
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Interns get hands-on experience through USDA
BANGOR — Bethany Moore, a 2011 graduate of Jay High School, joined the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service in Franklin County as a summer intern.
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Watched Republicans non-agenda for 2 years
It wasn’t bad enough tea partiers held the American people hostage in order to fulfill their political agenda on raising the debt ceiling, but they have created a doubt concerning our economy all over the world, thus effecting our credit rating from the Standard & Poor’s. The chaos they have created will affect families everywhere, […]
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Chickens allowed in more areas in Pittsfield
PITTSFIELD — Residents can keep chickens in certain areas of town after the Town Council approved changes to the zoning ordinance Tuesday night.
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Boehner prediction didn’t mean racetrack success
While browsing through some letters I have written to editors, I came across one I wrote to the editor of the Morning Sentinel that was published on April 15, 2010. The subject was the upcoming appointment of lachrymose John Boehner as speaker of the House, and the fact if that came to pass we would […]
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Stock market takes another wild nosedive
NEW YORK — Just when Wall Street seemed to have settled down, a barrage of bad economic reports collided with fresh worries about European banks Thursday and triggered a global sell-off in stocks.
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VIEW FROM ELSEWHERE: Don’t eat that lunch
For anyone who remembers the aroma of a grade-school classroom on a hot day, this will come as no surprise: Fawaz Almansour, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Nutritional Sciences at the University of Texas-Austin, reports that more than 90 percent of the lunches carried by preschoolers had reached unsafe temperatures long before lunchtime.
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Compromise deal didn’t stop Wall Street dive
Summarizing a list given by George Zornick, writing in The Nation, the debt deal can be divided into who is helped and who is harmed.
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Commissary availability factored into military pay
Your editorial about the Topsham Commissary closing in the Aug. 12 issue of the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel indicates that you do not check the facts before publishing an editorial.
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1 yellow ribbon serves as well as dozens
It might all go back to a 1973 hit by Tony Orlando and Dawn, “Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree,” though historians say yellow ribbons, handkerchiefs and scarves have long been symbols of awaiting a loved one’s return.