Two people blocked the view of clerks while a third person accessed a display case at G.M. Pollack & Sons, police say.
March 2010
NFL sticking with new format
The Pro Bowl will return to Honolulu next season, but again will take place before the Super Bowl.
Patchy ice wipes out fishing derby
Erratic conditions on Maine’s lakes and ponds prompt the second cancellation in the 10-year history of the derby.
Column: Teen’s artful metalwork winning praise
Maybe living along the Crooked River explains it. Or it might be in his DNA. Whatever sparked his creative talents, nobody denies that 17-year-old Max Throgmorton has a flair for creating aquatic creatures from of discarded implements. Through the eye of this budding welder-artisan, part of a rake becomes a whale’s tail; pliers are tuned […]
Potluck, March 3, 2010
Thursday Community Meal with American chop suey, noon, Westbrook-Warren Congregational Church, 810 Main St., Westbrook. Per person $4. Free dinner, 6 p.m., and introduction to the Alpha Christian life program, continues five weeks. First Congregational Church, 141 North St., Kennebunkport. For adults. Soup and bread Lenten supper, 6 p.m., followed by compline at 6:30 p.m., […]
Births, March 3, 2010
Bridgton Hospital Armani Matthew Quint, born Feb. 21 to Matthew Quint and Alanna LaSalle, Fryeburg. Grandparents: Anna Harriman, Baileyville; Jonathan LaSalle, Marlboro, Mass.; Haven and Ruth Quint, Fryeburg. Great-grandparents: Gertrude Stuart, Center Conway, N.H;. Myrtle Quint, Ocala, Fla. Mid Coast Hospital Kelsea Lynn Richards, born Feb. 12 to Seth Richards and Kathleen Coffin, Harpswell. Grandparents: […]
Another beat-the-curse challenge
Kevin Millar is hoping to make the Cubs, and, like he did in Boston, help end a drought.
Tiger’s getting back to a routine
After completing family counseling sessions, Tiger Woods is resuming his regimen of exercise, golf.
South Portland businesses speak as one: ‘Buy local’
About 60 of them join a group that will share ideas and do joint marketing.
Web site offers $1 million prize for pinpointing cause of runaway cars
It’s sort of like “American Idol” for auto mechanics. Amid the controversy over Toyota’s runaway cars, an automotive Web site is offering a $1 million prize to any tinkerer who can figure out the cause of the phenomenon. For now, the causes are shrouded in an engineering mystery. The automaker says it has corrected the […]