The following American Red Cross blood drives are open to the public: Today 1 to 6 p.m., FHC Inc., Bowdoin 1 to 6 p.m., Events on Broadway, South Portland 1 to 6 p.m., Town Hall, Denmark 1 to 7 p.m., Fire and Rescue Department, Casco Thursday Noon to 5 p.m., Bardwell Chiropractic, Yarmouth 1 […]
2011
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Local Baseball: Raging Tide collect a victory
OLD ORCHARD BEACH — Marcus Way hit a two-run homer in the sixth inning that broke a tie and lifted the Old Orchard Beach Raging Tide to a 4-2 victory against the Laconia Muskrats in a New England Collegiate Baseball League game Tuesday night at The Ballpark. Way’s homer for the Raging Tide (4-15) came […]
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Honor Roll, Cape Elizabeth High School, July 6, 2011
Cape Elizabeth High School Fourth Quarter Grade 12 – High Honors: Kelsey Barton, Camille Braun, Alana Cooper, Reid Douty, Kelsey Maguire, Rachel Nichols, John Queeney; Honors: Abigail Armstrong, Olivia Babine, Sydney Banks, Karyn Barrett, Benjamin Berman, Lydia Berman, Willard Bollenbach, Theodore Bowe, Allyson Boyington, Elena Castro, Sarah Cummings, William Daly, Kyle Danielson, Alexander Diaz, Tori […]
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Greater Portland Events, July 6, 2011
NORTH YARMOUTH Skyline Farm celebration Skyline Farm’s 9th annual Summer Celebration fundraiser will begin at 9 a.m. Saturday, featuring a silent auction, barn sale, pony rides, horse-drawn carriage rides, children’s activities and a lobster bake. The silent auction be held from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 5:30 to 8 p.m. inside the farm’s visitor […]
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Flooding river hampers oil cleanup in Montana
Workers are trying to clean up a pipeline spill of about 1,000 barrels in Montana’s Yellowstone River.
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Regional Events, July 6, 2011
BRIDGTON House tour for museum The 1870 Greek Revival house, at 21 South High St., is one of 10 properties on the Rufus Porter Museum’s historic house tour from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Saturday. An 1830 farmhouse, a Gothic Revival residence and a water-powered coffin factory, built by Bridgton’s first undertaker in 1868, also […]
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Once peaceful parade turns ugly and violent in Maine town
Organizers say that this Fourth’s celebration could be West Athens’ last.
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Maine judges’ pay near bottom in U.S.
A report ranks the state above only Hawaii, raising concerns that the best legal minds won’t apply for vital jobs that haven’t seen a raise since 2007.
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Briefly, July 6, 2011
SCARBOROUGH ABOUT 60 STUDENTS in The Gym Dandies participated in the July 4 parade in Philadelphia. The parade route went through the historic district of Philadelphia, past such famous landmarks as Independence Hall and the Liberty Bell, and ending at Penn’s Landing, a beautiful waterfront park along the Delaware River. The Gym Dandies celebrated their […]
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‘Woodswoman’ autobiographer LaBastille dies
ALBANY, N.Y. — Anne LaBastille, the environmentalist, sometime hermit and author whose “Woodswoman” autobiographies inspired others to venture into the wilderness, has died at a nursing home in Plattsburgh. She was 75. Friends said she was ill the past few years but still owned a farm near Lake Champlain, as well as the cabin that […]