Several Mainers are racing this weekend at regional Nordic and Alpine championships.
March 2012
Maine Voices: Maine’s guardian ad litem program desperately needs better oversight
Members of the program, which is intended to advocate for children, aren’t directly supervised.
Local Dispatches
Judge denies bail for suspect accused of killing firefighter / Augusta men plead guilty to armed home invasion / Maine high schools violating ban on junk food ads . . . and more news from around Maine.
Steve Solloway: He’s as Good as ever, but less salty
Still waiting for the day the University of Maine men’s basketball team will be written into NCAA tournament brackets. … MAX GOOD was ready to push the button. “You know, the up button on the elevator that takes you into the stratosphere. I wanted to get to the highest ledge.” His Loyola-Marymount Lions lost in […]
Crucial weekend for UMaine
The Black Bears’ hopes of an NCAA tournament bid could hinge on their Hockey East playoff series against Merrimack.
Our View: Rating agency made wrong call on ‘Bully’
A rigid standard for what makes a film appropriate viewing can yield absurd results.
Hersom, Smith hired to coach at Gray-NG
Jim Hersom will take over as the Patriots’ football coach, and Brad Smith will coach baseball.
Henrikson fits Bowdoin team’s personality
Jill Henrikson’s tenacious style suits a Polar Bear squad looking to pull an upset in the NCAA women’s basketball tournament.
M.D. Harmon: When discussing Iran, there are no easy answers
Almost no one accepts Iran’s denials of its quest for nuclear weapons anymore, certainly including President Obama, who said this week he has “Israel’s back” in any coming conflict. Assuming anyone believes that promise, which is hard to do because he immediately retreated from it in a subsequent news conference. A war-weary American public shies […]
Clukey returns for nationals
Julia Clukey ends her break from luge competition next week at the national championships.