Shoppers have started using Best Buy’s hulking big-box stores as showrooms where they can test out products before buying them cheaper elsewhere.
March 2012
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Waterville postal inspectors find 7 pounds of pot
Inspectors at the U.S. Post Office in Waterville suspected a package contained illegal drugs. They were right.
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Juggling faith and fun
WINDHAM – Windham Christian Academy’s LOL Club finds purpose in performance as it preps for its May trip. WINDHAM – After two decades teaching Christian middle school students, Rick Hagerstrom knows how to catch an audience’s attention. And for the last few years while teaching at Windham Christian Academy, Hagerstrom, a Bridgton resident, has led […]
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Juggling faith and fun
WINDHAM – Windham Christian Academy’s LOL Club finds purpose in performance as it preps for its May trip. WINDHAM – After two decades teaching Christian middle school students, Rick Hagerstrom knows how to catch an audience’s attention. And for the last few years while teaching at Windham Christian Academy, Hagerstrom, a Bridgton resident, has led […]
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Missing toddler’s mom wants answers
Trista Reynolds of Portland says she continues to pray for Ayla’s safe return but needs answers – good or bad – about her daughter’s fate.
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Colby march draws attention to Fla. teen’s killing
Colby College students and faculty wear hoodies during a silent walk to call attention to the shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin last month.
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New VFW commander wants to keep Windham membership growing
WINDHAM – Guided by the same motto of his Navy Seabees, “Can Do!,” Roger Timmons, a Windham native and the town’s former code enforcement officer, has taken command of Windham Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 10643. Timmons, 70, was installed at a special ceremony Sunday at Gilbert’s Chowder House in North Windham. He succeeds Bob […]
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Above-normal ocean temps could cause ripple effect
The winter’s warm air temperatures have helped drive up water temperatures in the Gulf of Maine, and the result could be lobsters molting and ocean algae blooming ahead of schedule. Long-term effects could be more worrisome.
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Bangor newspaper, state official apologize for spoof ad
The notice advertising a meeting in Islesboro to discuss a bridge replacement said in part, “We really don’t care about the bridge. We are just curious about these island folk.”
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Obama visit to hinder travel in Portland, S. Portland
The presidential motorcade will cause “rolling” street closures on its way to Southern Maine Community College and Portland Museum of Art.