CORNVILLE — On July 4, 1863, Lt. Edwin Barlow Dow, commander of the 6th Maine Artillery Battery, rode across the blood-soaked fields of Gettysburg, Pa., where on the previous three days the most famous and most important battle of the Civil War had raged.
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Panel plans tax law rewrite
AUGUSTA — While most lawmakers will take the summer off, the legislature’s Taxation Committee plans to start work on re-writing the state’s tax laws to make the tax code both simpler and fairer.
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Annual sand sculpture event draws 31 teams
OLD ORCHARD BEACH — Limited only by their imaginations, their skill at wielding plastic pails and shovels, and finding whatever sea creatures had washed up on the beach, 31 teams competed Sunday in the 25th annual Ocean Park Family Sand Sculpture Competition.
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TV shows help ballroom dancing make a comeback
Like waltzing, fox-trotting, rumba-ing Cinderellas, newcomers and regulars alike slip into their transformative dance shoes and hit the floor at Maplewood Ballroom every Wednesday.
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Last Vietnam-era draftee to retire
FORT BELVOIR, Va. — A homemade wind chime with the word “Whining” under a red slash is made from metal parts put in his leg after a parachute accident. Every Sunday he trims his crew cut. He didn’t join the Army willingly, but as Command Sgt. Maj. Jeff Mellinger prepares to retire, he’s grateful he found his calling.
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Lobster rising as gourmet comfort food
PORTLAND — Macaroni and cheese and pot pies may conjure up images of grandma’s kitchen. But those traditional dishes these days are being combined with the king of seafood and transformed into value-added lobster dishes that some are calling gourmet comfort food.
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Police want DNA; lawyers want answers
FARMINGTON — Known violent criminals are being asked to give DNA samples to prove they are not the person who fatally stabbed an 81-year-old woman in her Farmington apartment, according to a Lewiston attorney.
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Lobster sellers fishing new waters
PORTLAND — Macaroni and cheese and pot pies may conjure up images of grandma’s kitchen. But those traditional dishes these days are being combined with the king of seafood and transformed into value-added lobster dishes that some are calling gourmet comfort food.
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Remembering the Maine men who helped save the Union
CORNVILLE — On July 4, 1863, Lt. Edwin Barlow Dow, commander of the 6th Maine Artillery Battery, rode across the blood-soaked fields of Gettysburg, Pa., where on the previous three days the most famous and most important battle of the Civil War had raged.
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Maine organizations receive funding
BANGOR — The Western Maine Community Action in East Wilton will receive a $175,105 grant to help the Maine’s Community Action Agencies and the Keeping Seniors at Home partnership network.