2011
Posted inBusiness

Berwick farmers raise bisonas more than just meat source

by Emma Bouthillette

BERWICK — Half a dozen bison lounged in the tall grass behind the Hackmatack Playhouse on Tuesday, barely visible to people driving by.

Such a tranquil scene is more commonly associated with the Western plains than southern Maine’s rolling fields, but this small herd is part of an ambitious vision for two Berwick natives.

Christopher Gallot, 24, and Conor Guptill, 25, grew up together near the field that has been owned by Guptill’s family since the 1600s. They went their separate ways after high school, but after a conversation this fall, they both realized they wanted to return to their hometown and reconnect with the land.

Posted inNation & World

Nation/World Dispatches, June 29, 2011

by From news service reports

ATHENS, Greece Strikes, riots disrupt city as parliament tackles finances Hours of rioting outside Greece’s parliament left 46 people injured Tuesday, on the eve of a vote by lawmakers to adopt more painful austerity measures – a condition for bailout funds needed to prevent a potentially disastrous default. At least 14 people were arrested, authorities […]

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Posted inSports, Varsity Maine

Thornton summer programis all working out

by Mike Lowe

SACO — Ask any teen-ager what they would like to be doing at 7 in the morning during summer vacation and most would probably answer sleeping.

Why, then, were nearly 100 Thornton Academy student-athletes jumping and stretching and skipping and squatting and running and sweating Monday morning at the school’s athletic fields?

Why, because they could, of course.

Twice a week, the students gather for a summer performance training program sponsored and run by Saco Bay Sports Physical Therapy. The program was offered free to Thornton students, who underwent baseline testing – exercises similar to those in the NFL Scouting combine: the 40-yard dash, vertical leaps, broad jumps, a medicine ball toss, agility drills, core stability drills – in mid-June and will meet twice a week for six weeks.

Posted inNews

Maine beekeeper:Local ordinance stings

by Trevor Maxwell

SOUTH PORTLAND — The bees dart around Phil Gaven’s arms and behind his neck, hundreds of them buzzing into the hives and then out toward the green meadow of tall grass and wildflowers.

He never flinches.

Gaven, a hobbyist beekeeper for the past three years, knows that the honeybees are far more interested in gathering water and pollen than they are in stinging him, unless he provokes them or threatens the two hives he erected on a friend’s property near Willard Square.

“Hopefully they’ll fill this within a couple of weeks,” Gaven said, putting his hand on the top of one of the hives. The first honey harvest is running a few weeks late this year.

Posted inNation & World

Space junk’s a close encounter for astronauts

by The Associated Press

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The six space station astronauts took shelter in lifeboats Tuesday when a piece of orbiting junk came dangerously close. The unidentified object came within 1,100 feet of the station – the closest space junk ever. Mission Control ordered the astronauts into the two Russian Soyuz capsules parked at the space station […]

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