How much parking is enough? Proposed ‘healthy living’ apartment building in...
PORTLAND, Maine — Some neighbors of a proposed “healthy living” apartment building on Cumberland Avenue have told city planners the project will worsen parking and traffic problems in an already dense...
View ArticleThe best short haircuts for running
I read in Gina’s latest post about her trip to the Paul Mitchell Signature Gathering in Las Vegas that the style for fall 2013 is short. Thank god. I love it when the thing I’m already doing is the...
View ArticleEaston boys edge Ashland
ASHLAND, Maine — Logan Halverson, Ian Sotomayor, Drew Sotomayor and Cody Halverson netted one goal apiece to lead Easton to a 4-3 schoolboy soccer win over Ashland Tuesday. Cody Sotomayor chipped in...
View ArticleDemocrat Eloise Vitelli bests Republican Paula Benoit to claim Bath-area...
BATH, Maine — Democrat Eloise Vitelli of Arrowsic claimed the Senate District 19 seat on Tuesday, garnering 4,621 votes to Republican Paula Benoit’s 4,339, with just 3 percent of ballots separating the...
View ArticleHermon residents weigh in on water, sewer expansion proposals
HERMON, Maine — Residents and business owners had an opportunity last week to ask questions and weigh in on a $5.7 million proposal to extend public water and sewer service into the village center. The...
View ArticleVitelli wins Maine Senate District 19 special election
Democrat Eloise Vitelli wins the special Maine Senate District 19 election Tuesday night, beating out two opponents in Sagadahoc County.
View ArticleDems say special election win shows momentum, but Republicans blame money,...
BATH, Maine — Democrats said Eloise Vitelli’s victory in Tuesday’s Senate District 19 special election is proof that voters are swinging to the left, though Republicans said it was another example of...
View ArticleHere are 30 quick hitters the Red Sox need to make the playoffs
With Boston’s victory over Baltimore Tuesday night, the Red Sox began a 30-game grind to finish the regular season. We started watching this Red Sox team way back in February when pitchers and catchers...
View ArticleUMaine paying agents to recruit international students in controversial practice
AUGUSTA, Maine — This September, among the new students attending the University of Maine’s orientation in Orono will be two students from China and one each from India, Vietnam and Bangladesh. That...
View ArticleSabattus man says ‘shoot’ posting wasn’t a threat against Obama, defends...
"(The Secret Service) didn't see no pictures of Obama with bullet holes in his head," Marsters said. "It's not a threatening statement, in my opinion. People take it out of context as a threat." He...
View Article‘Layaway Angel’ works magic at Kmart in Auburn
AUBURN, Maine — It feels like a Christmas story, but it’s not. A terminally ill woman walked into Kmart last week ...
View ArticleGeaghan Bros. Brewing Co. cleared for expansion while finishing up another...
Geaghan Brothers Brewing Co. is in the midst of an expansion for its cramped brewing space, but is already planning for more growth. The 37-year-old pub, which stepped into brewing in 2011, was given...
View ArticleLewiston arson suspect ordered for psych exam for third time
AUBURN, Maine — A judge has ordered a Lewiston man charged with arson in Lewiston fires last spring to Riverview Psychiatric Center in Augusta a third time for a psychological evaluation. Brian Morin,...
View ArticleThe GOP’s new paths to power
Republican politics has gotten so complicated, even the members known for drawing bright lines are getting fuzzy. Sen. Ted Cruz is vice chairman of the committee charged with re-electing Republicans,...
View ArticleFreeport High School towns will confront old overcrowding questions in new...
FREEPORT, Maine — Overcrowding at Freeport High School won’t be any worse this year than it was last, but that doesn’t mean the troubles are over for the aging and cramped facility. That’s the...
View ArticleVictorino, Red Sox beat up Orioles
BOSTON — Shane Victorino homered twice, drove in seven runs and scored four times Tuesday, and the Boston Red Sox returned home from a winning West Coast trip to post a 13-2 win over the Orioles....
View ArticleI need a bunker to hunker down in
The pitfall to being a writer is that people expect you to be the final stop for all matters of the written word. You’re expected to know the finer points of grammar, and idioms, and what a dangling...
View ArticleBunker and Ellis: How two men played pool and became boatbuilding icons
“We worked nights, Thanksgiving, New Year’s, even Christmas,” Raymond Bunker said in 1979, not long after his 32-year partnership with Ralph Ellis ended. “Often, we worked until nine o’clock or...
View ArticleMilitary jury to consider death penalty for Fort Hood gunman
FORT HOOD, Texas — The military jury deciding the fate of U.S. Army Major Nidal Hasan was slated on Wednesday to begin deliberations on whether he should be sentenced to death for the November 2009...
View ArticlePortland schools to lease former Falmouth school building
FALMOUTH, Maine — The Portland School Department has signed a 10-month, $75,000 lease for the former Sampson D. Plummer Elementary school, to house its West Day Treatment Program. The West program...
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