NEWTON, Mass. — Laura Palmer of Sidney was recently named to the dean’s list for the 2011 spring semester at Mount Ida College in Newton.
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Morning Sentinel police log: July 26, 2011
IN ANSON, Sunday at 2:32 p.m., a report of a domestic disturbance was investigated on Finch Street.
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Support tourism or multinational corporations
George Smith’s recent column claiming that fishermen don’t care if there are industrial wind turbines on our mountains would be laughable, if it weren’t such a serious subject. Smith, who saw to it that the Sportsman’s Alliance of Maine took a large donation from First Wind and then took a large “sponsorship” himself from the […]
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Campaign launched in support of casino table games
BANGOR — A group in Penobscot County has launched a campaign to allow blackjack, roulette and other table games at Hollywood Slots casino in Bangor. At a press conference Monday, the Penobscot County for Tables Games and Jobs Coalition said allowing table games will create jobs and generate revenues for the county and the state. […]
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Hollis intersection defaced with anti-Semitic graffiti
HOLLIS — The intersection of Route 117 and Plains Road was hit with anti-Semitic graffiti overnight. A gas station building, the road itself and a Poland Spring bottling plant directional sign were defaced with swastikas, anti-Semitic phrases and vulgar drawings. The York County Sheriff’s Office is investigating, according to Maj. William King. No arrests have been […]
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Man dies after saying he was on bath salts
BANGOR — Officials say a 32-year-old Bangor man died shortly after telling police he was high on a hallucinogenic drug known as “bath salts.” Police say Ralph Willis was running around yelling at people on a Bangor street Friday evening. When an officer arrived, police say Willis charged at him, got into a scuffle, broke […]
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Helmet limits injury in Hallowell motorcycle crash
HALLOWELL — A Farmingdale man was taken to the hospital Monday after crashing his motorcycle at the intersection of Middle Street and Litchfield Road. Dennis Royer, 66, was taken by ambulance to MaineGeneral Medical Center in Augusta with what Hallowell Police Chief Eric Nason described as non life-threatening injuries. The crash occurred just before 10 […]
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Augusta fire damages porch
AUGUSTA — A city apartment building was damaged Sunday when a fire broke out on an upper-level porch. Augusta Fire Battalion Chief Daniel Guimond said someone walked into the fire station around 1:30 p.m., to report the fire to a porch attached to the building at 373 Water Street. The fire in one corner of […]
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Obama: Halt ‘3-ring-circus’ of debt-limit debate
The president says the approach unveiled earlier in the day by House Speaker John Boehner would raise the nation’s debt limit only long enough to push off the threat of default for six months.
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Katahdin Bankshares earnings drop 11 percent
PORTLAND — Houlton-based Katahdin Bankshares Corp., the parent company of Katahdin Trust Company, reported earnings of $2,182,000 in the first half of 2011, down 11 percent from the same period last year, according to a media release. In a press release, Jon J. Prescott, Katahdin Trust president and CEO, attributed the decline to a drop in […]