2011
Menopause workshop series starts Jan. 4
BATH — InspireME Personal Fitness & Training will launch a five-part workshop titled “Menopause: Channeling the Surge” on Jan. 4. The workshop “ explores various aspects of menopause and periomenopause — and strategies for coping,” an InspireME release states. “ Learn how nutrition and stress management can make all the difference.” The workshop is open […]
SCHEDULED PUBLIC MEETINGS
BrunswickBICYCLE/PEDESTRIAN COMMITTEE, Thursday, 7 p.m., MunicipalBuilding, 28 Federal St.DresdenFIRE DEPARTMENT, Wednesday,6:30 p.m., Pownalborough Station.Freepor tCABLE TV COMMITTEE,Wednesday, 6 p.m., town hall.Harpswell BOARD OF APPEALS, Wednesday, 7 p.m., town office.BOARD OF SELECTMEN, Thursday, 6 p.m., town office.RichmondLIBRARY MEETING, Wednesday,4 p.m., town office.BOARD OF SELECTMEN,Wednesday, 6 p.m., town office.West BathMARINE RESOURCES BOARD,Wednesday, 6 p.m., town hall.
Maine aims to build sustainable urchin fishery
PORTLAND — During the heyday, Maine urchin fishermen harvested more than 40 million pounds of the spiny creatures a year. A move is now under way to jumpstart the industry, which has fallen on hard times and is just a skeleton of its former self. A panel made up of scientists, urchin harvesters and regulators has […]
Search for toddler in 11th day; 330 leads
WATERVILLE ( AP) — Police said Tuesday they’ve received more than 300 leads from the public in their search for a toddler who vanished from her dad’s home a week before Christmas. “These leads have poured in from around the nation, including several from as far away as California,” Waterville police Chief Joseph Massey said […]
Maine professor receives national award
SOUTH PORTLAND (AP) — A professor at Southern Maine Community College has been awarded the 2011 Teaching Excellence Award from the American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges. Florence Chambers, who came to the South Portland campus in 2001, is one of six instructors nationwide to receive the award. She tells The Portland Press Herald that […]
CALENDAR
Wed/28BLOOD DRIVEYARMOUTH AMVETS, 11 a.m.-4p.m., Yarmouth; 1-800 RED CROSSor www.RedCrossBlood.org.AMERICAN RED CROSS DONORCENTER, noon-7 p.m., 524 ForestAve., Portland; www.RedCross-Blood.org or 1-800-RED-CROSS.Thu/29BLOOD DRIVEAMERICAN RED CROSS DONORCENTER, noon-7 p.m., 524 ForestAve., Portland; www.RedCross-Blood.org or 1-800-RED-CROSS.MISCELLANEOUSGUIDED BEAVER PARK MORNINGWALKS, 7-8 a.m., Lisbon; 353-9075or lisbonme.org.THURSDAY HIKERS: Reid State Park,Georgetown; meet 8:45 a.m. at Mid-Coast Presbyterian Church, 84 MainSt., Topsham; […]
Dear Abby
DEAR ABBY: My marriage has been on the rocks since 2008, when I caught my husband talking to other girls online. He swore he would never do it again and I trusted him, only for it to happen again and again. We have a 2- year- old and I’m pregnant with our second child. He […]
Working together for safety
As another year comes to a close and the holiday season is upon us, visions of what we’ve accomplished since Christmas-past dance through our heads. Merrymeeting Bay TRIAD elves have, indeed, been busy bringing tools to older residents to make them safer and more savvy about potential risks and those who would take advantage of […]