NEW YORK – Mayor Michael Bloomberg will officiate at one of the city’s first same-sex marriages — the union of two top staffers in his administration. Bloomberg plans to preside over the wedding of John Feinblatt, Bloomberg’s chief policy adviser, and Department of Consumer Affairs Commissioner Jonathan Mintz. They’ve been together for 14 years and […]
2011
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Bulletin Board
The Betty Blakeman Memorial tennis tournament will be held July 15-17 at Yarmouth High School and satellite sites. The divisions include men’s open singles and doubles, women’s open singles and doubles, open mixed doubles and men’s 55-plus singles and doubles. The entry fee is $20 per event for singles and $30 per doubles team, and […]
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Commentary: Tossing out theories on umpires
If you tune into baseball games to see the umpire strike back, the All-Star break couldn’t come at a worse time. July is already shaping up as one of the best months ever for ejections. Since the calendar turned over, 17 players, managers and coaches have been sent to cool off early, the same number […]
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New England Dispatches
NORTH ATTLEBOROUGH, Mass. Fiery truck crash injures two, chokes traffic for most of day A fiery early morning truck crash that closed down a section of Interstate 295 in North Attleborough near the Rhode Island border was still causing traffic problems Thursday afternoon. State police say the tractor-trailer carrying produce rolled over and burst into […]
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Dispatches
CAPE ELIZABETH Town’s Democrats nominate House District 121 candidate The town’s Democratic Committee nominated Kim Monaghan-Derrig on Thursday night as its candidate in a special election next month to fill a vacancy in Maine House District 121. Monaghan-Derrig, a lifelong Cape Elizabeth resident, works in the marketing field, serves on the town’s school board and […]
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Steve Solloway: Together, with basketball
NBA players visit a camp that leaves a world behind.
Eighteen-year-old Kamal was more than cooperative and apologetic. No, he said, he doesn’t know much about America’s NBA. He didn’t recognize the names of the rookies who were just introduced Thursday to the Seeds of Peace campers.
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Red Claws add Sixers as third affiliation
Philadelphia will be joining Charlotte and Boston as the teams sending players to Maine.
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AAU Basketball: Maine U13 team finishes runner-up in nationals
A team from Texas pulls away from the Maine Firecrackers in the AAU Division II title game.
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Credit card donations restored at WikiLeaks
A spokesman for Visa Europe says the payments have not been sanctioned.
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NATO airstrike kills civilians during battle with insurgents
The U.S.-led coalition says a patrol didn’t know about the women and children.